Beautifully put, uncle story time. My niece came over to Pakistan last year from Canada so I promised my brother I would show the around the village etc, I picked them up from Islamabad and bundled them into the car and on our way to join the motorway she made a really interesting observation:
"The people of Pakistan look so resigned, they drive in his unbearable heat, in this queues of cars that snake across this long stretch of road, and no one protests, everyone is just droning along"...
For a moment, I paused and thought, damn she is going to be a philosopher when she grows up, and then I told her
"it is because people are too busy surviving, in Canada people think about what movie they are going to watch at the Cinema, or the next Ice Hokey match with their friends, in Pakistan most people think, will I be able to bring tamatar and anday back home for my wife and kids."
So people just keep on keeping on... Our people are stuck in the perpetual loop of
Roti, Kapada, Makaan:
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