Perhaps that is the beauty of mankind. The beauty of believing in what does not exist.
Typing while wearing gloves is a very tiring business indeed. But it does feel good, especially when one gets used to it. The only real problem is with the spacebar; I seem to press it at wrong intervals much more frequently.
There’s gas load shedding this year too. Like our government has been advertising on TV how they’ve set up this many new electricity and gas connections in rural areas; they’ve apparently exceeded they’re capacity, and now we’re forever short of it. The real thing is, I’m sure many villages were happier without electricity. Now the govt. first got them used to having it, and when we realize there isn’t enough to go around, you proceed with daily load shedding, with different intervals for different localities. And in summer, too. And the rurals are hit the worst. They’ve been going without electricity for 8-10 hours daily. Wasn’t it better to not give it to them in the first place if you’re just going to as good as take it back? I’m sure they deserve it just as much, but when you don’t have enough butter, spreading it thinner on more bread just doesn’t suffice. Gas, though, is something they really should be provided with. It’s a better alternative to coal (which causes pollution) and firewood (which leads to unchecked deforestation), and coz it’s really cold in winter! I don’t mind gas load shedding as much (as long as mom has cooked already) because that way I know poorer ppl might be getting the benefit of it. And there’s nobody who can feel the cold more than I can! (It’s this winter, actually, that’s killing me!).
I just shut off the heater.
It’s because I know that I’ve got so much that they haven’t. I’ve got fleece, and gloves. I’m in a strong, enclosed house with not a whisper of a draught from anywhere. I sit in my warm car, travel the 45 minutes to college in complete luxury and get off right in front of the gate. I don’t work all day or engage in hard labor of any sort. I’ve got enough food to eat. And I’m young and full of life…but whoever said ppl of the villages are tired of their life and existence? I think I kinda got confused in the middle. I started at one point and then went off tangent. Regardless! Im sure I can live through the cold…at home at least – it’s freezing in college and I’ve got reason to complain there!
But then, on to another point. A lot of poor ppl don’t have enough sense as well. Another fact. You’d think that with luxuries hard to come by, they’d be a bit more frugal, a bit more careful of resources and needs. But no! My own cleaning woman’s family tells of how they leave their water running and it doesn’t matter a bit. In fact, she went as far as to say that ‘jinne pani naal tusi kapre dhonde ho, onne de naal saada aik bacha mun dhunda hai’ *hmph* what can you do with people like that? There’s no knocking some sense into them. They don’t WANT to get educated. Some organizations have gone as far as paying kids for coming to school, and yet their parents still think it’s a waste; ‘what will they do with this education, how will it help them become better ppl or better earners, when they could be spending this time helping us out and contributing to the daily earnings for our 10-12-person-family’s bread?’
Yes, that is what they say. That is what they think.
The best invention, according to my cleaning woman’s family, is cable TV. They work in the morning, getting everything done as quickly as possible, so they can get home and watch movies. And then back to work the next day, cleaning up somebody else’s mess in somebody else’s house. Not just one house, though. They’ve all got to work at 2 or 3 to make ends meet. And their only occupation on getting home is to do their own chores around the house, or, the blissful television. For them, life is perfect. They do not want to increase their level of existence, their ‘quality of life’. That does not just mean to be rich and successful and equipped with the latest gadgets and a junkyard’s worth of possessions. It’s about being educated. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s education that makes all the difference.
The wb says that all the money they gave was spent on advertisement instead of the real work it was intended for. Daddy said so from the start. How pathetic is that? You think they’re all going straight, they’re the ones who seem to be making a difference, and then they goof up, and the entire façade crumbles and the stark interior is revealed. All the same. All corrupt to the core. All seduced by Man’s greatest desire: power. I know we can all sit comfortably in our homes and criticize leaders and rulers for getting greedy once they get the taste of power. But the real question is, if every one of us were in a similar situation, with temptation tantalizingly hanging before our very eyes, how many of us would be able to resist the greed and the lust for power? How many will actually be able to turn away from all that wealth and power and do what’s right, selflessly, for the people? That is a question every person must ask himself.
P.S. – I refuse to use the word maid as some people insist. ‘Cleaning woman’ may sound weird; perhaps rough and uncouth even, but that’s what I’ve always said and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Typing while wearing gloves is a very tiring business indeed. But it does feel good, especially when one gets used to it. The only real problem is with the spacebar; I seem to press it at wrong intervals much more frequently.
There’s gas load shedding this year too. Like our government has been advertising on TV how they’ve set up this many new electricity and gas connections in rural areas; they’ve apparently exceeded they’re capacity, and now we’re forever short of it. The real thing is, I’m sure many villages were happier without electricity. Now the govt. first got them used to having it, and when we realize there isn’t enough to go around, you proceed with daily load shedding, with different intervals for different localities. And in summer, too. And the rurals are hit the worst. They’ve been going without electricity for 8-10 hours daily. Wasn’t it better to not give it to them in the first place if you’re just going to as good as take it back? I’m sure they deserve it just as much, but when you don’t have enough butter, spreading it thinner on more bread just doesn’t suffice. Gas, though, is something they really should be provided with. It’s a better alternative to coal (which causes pollution) and firewood (which leads to unchecked deforestation), and coz it’s really cold in winter! I don’t mind gas load shedding as much (as long as mom has cooked already) because that way I know poorer ppl might be getting the benefit of it. And there’s nobody who can feel the cold more than I can! (It’s this winter, actually, that’s killing me!).
I just shut off the heater.
It’s because I know that I’ve got so much that they haven’t. I’ve got fleece, and gloves. I’m in a strong, enclosed house with not a whisper of a draught from anywhere. I sit in my warm car, travel the 45 minutes to college in complete luxury and get off right in front of the gate. I don’t work all day or engage in hard labor of any sort. I’ve got enough food to eat. And I’m young and full of life…but whoever said ppl of the villages are tired of their life and existence? I think I kinda got confused in the middle. I started at one point and then went off tangent. Regardless! Im sure I can live through the cold…at home at least – it’s freezing in college and I’ve got reason to complain there!
But then, on to another point. A lot of poor ppl don’t have enough sense as well. Another fact. You’d think that with luxuries hard to come by, they’d be a bit more frugal, a bit more careful of resources and needs. But no! My own cleaning woman’s family tells of how they leave their water running and it doesn’t matter a bit. In fact, she went as far as to say that ‘jinne pani naal tusi kapre dhonde ho, onne de naal saada aik bacha mun dhunda hai’ *hmph* what can you do with people like that? There’s no knocking some sense into them. They don’t WANT to get educated. Some organizations have gone as far as paying kids for coming to school, and yet their parents still think it’s a waste; ‘what will they do with this education, how will it help them become better ppl or better earners, when they could be spending this time helping us out and contributing to the daily earnings for our 10-12-person-family’s bread?’
Yes, that is what they say. That is what they think.
The best invention, according to my cleaning woman’s family, is cable TV. They work in the morning, getting everything done as quickly as possible, so they can get home and watch movies. And then back to work the next day, cleaning up somebody else’s mess in somebody else’s house. Not just one house, though. They’ve all got to work at 2 or 3 to make ends meet. And their only occupation on getting home is to do their own chores around the house, or, the blissful television. For them, life is perfect. They do not want to increase their level of existence, their ‘quality of life’. That does not just mean to be rich and successful and equipped with the latest gadgets and a junkyard’s worth of possessions. It’s about being educated. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s education that makes all the difference.
The wb says that all the money they gave was spent on advertisement instead of the real work it was intended for. Daddy said so from the start. How pathetic is that? You think they’re all going straight, they’re the ones who seem to be making a difference, and then they goof up, and the entire façade crumbles and the stark interior is revealed. All the same. All corrupt to the core. All seduced by Man’s greatest desire: power. I know we can all sit comfortably in our homes and criticize leaders and rulers for getting greedy once they get the taste of power. But the real question is, if every one of us were in a similar situation, with temptation tantalizingly hanging before our very eyes, how many of us would be able to resist the greed and the lust for power? How many will actually be able to turn away from all that wealth and power and do what’s right, selflessly, for the people? That is a question every person must ask himself.
P.S. – I refuse to use the word maid as some people insist. ‘Cleaning woman’ may sound weird; perhaps rough and uncouth even, but that’s what I’ve always said and there’s nothing I can do about it.
