Confused society

We live in a confused society. There are lot of things which we have accepted from the society, which does not make any sense or at least are not rational. But we never realize those things either for the reason that we think it’s meant to be that way or we don’t bother ourselves on these little things. But the fact is, those little things make the basis for  change. A long journey begins with a little step.

Few things that I am going to mention here. It really makes me think why our society acts this way. Why we “prefer” to be like others and don’t like to be ourselves?

• Few days back, we friends went to a shopping mall. It was Sunday and only “families” were allowed that’s why the  guard stopped us from entering the mall. I asked for the reason and he said only “families” were allowed, we said okay. At that very moment I saw a father with his son about to enter the mall and the guard stopped him as well, for the same reason. Now this thing made me curious. I asked the guard, why is he not letting them in. He said only “families”. I said he is with his son. “sorry sir, there is no female with them”. I said, “so when you say family, you mean there should be a female in the group”. He nodded. I asked, “you mean if a guy comes with his GF then it’s perfectly fine since there is lady in the group”. He nodded again. All this made me think that our society has itself imposed the concept of girlfriends boyfriends indirectly, and at the same time they oppose it. Hypocrites!
• The second thing about our society. Obsessed. Obsessed to be like westerners. Obsessed to love western or any other culture but our own. One of the things I would like to mention here: If either a company or brand name is written in English, we call it cool but if the same name is translated in Urdu, we will never like it. For example, all of us believe “Honda” is a nice brand and it’s name is “cool”. Honda was the “name” of the guy who started this company. Now consider a local guy, named “aslam” uses his name as a brand name “aslam motors”, how many of us will consider it as cool as “Honda”? Consider other names as well. “Stallions” -> “Ghoray”.

These are only few examples. I don’t want to write in detail since it’ll be lengthy, but the theme is quite clear here. Why don’t we try to portray our culture, our “own” society and try to change the “wrong” things penetrated in our society? Why we care to do things just because our society “likes” or “want” those things that way? Why we think about society before making any decision about our personal or family life? We really got to think about this.

One of the things I would like to mention here: If we read some English simple name of company or brand we call it cool and if the same name is translated in Urdu or there is something like that. We will never like it

**THE** headache!

Yet another day with headache. I don’t remember exactly when did my bond with this headache started. I guess, its history is dated back when i joined the university. The hostel life, full of joy, pranks and fun gave this lifetime gift.

It’s become a part of my life now and I don’t remember how it feels to have a moment without an headache. The moment I start forgetting about headache, I get it by “any” means. Sometime migrane, or due to over work, or extra thinking (which i always do even when i don’t want to do) and if there is nothing then there would be some surprise of headache for me. But it’d be there.

It’s almost 2 days that I have not been able to sleep well. Don’t know but there is something stuck in my head. I am thinking it and thinking it and then thinking it – helplessly! Every little thing today is making me think.

• Why people get so much attached to each other?
• Why there is name of everything? Ever imagined a world without name of any human being?
• How easy and realistically the Matrix concept is implementable on real life? Which programming language would be preferred?
• Aah! that headache is painfull but can i remember the pain i had during my surgery? Time heals everything and all it gives; scars of memory.
• If some elder is abusing someone, his kids start doing so as well. Without knowing “why” they are doing and this thing becomes part of their life. People fight for “nothing”? They abuse for nothing and they don’t even think that they are fighting over relegion. Come on, religion teaches the lesson of Peace and we are fighting over relegion? There has been fights over it in my village since 1960 and today was also one of that day.
• We know there would be nothing left in our life, everything will be finish but even then things are so much important to us that we can’t even think “what would be if this thing isn’t there”. This actually leads us towards the feelings and emotions for that particualar thing or person. And in later case, we start missing someone.
• All the knowledge of science is based on small peice of informations which helped to deduce big concepts (force, bonds, chemical reactions, photosynthesis etc). What if that base of science is wrong? There may be no atom or there may be some other significant thing than atom but scientists are not able to discover it due to lack of technology and vision!
• Are emotions really meaningfull? Or they really matter to someone? If they matters then why don’t people care about emotions? and if these don’t matter then why they even exists?
• Why heart interrupts the “thinking” process of brain? Did ever brain interrupts the heart job of pumping blood? Then why heart jumps in when ever brain has to make some decision which has *emotions* attached to it?
• If you’d be given an option to live with only one thing either brain or heart, what will you choose? I’ll choose, emm, let me think, damn, this heart is interrupting again … … argh !!!
• Can we really bear a person throughout our life?

Yeah, that’s true – I am having headache and all this crap is in my mind.