We'd All Like To Believe We're Different, But Really We're All Exactly The Same.

While trying to escape the fact that I have an exam in 2 days, I decided to randomly start searching for blogs about Pakistan. What I ended up reading was a blog called the --- by a group of (I'm going out on a limb here) Non-Muslims, well they called themselves infidels. What I read there should have made me furious, but half way through I found myself grinning. As ridiculous as it sounds, I've never felt more relieved. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, but it made me realize that scary, creepy people are a world wide phenomenon. This blog was full of the same sort of hatred that all the stupid, over the top mullahs spew all the time. Destroy them before they destroy us, hit them because they hit us, they're evil, they're vile, they'll destroy our way of life, fee fi fo fum, lets sound the drums of war, etc etc, you get the point. The actual funny bit is that I don't think either side even realizes how similar they really sound. Everyone is the victim, each side is so sure they're right, and each side seems to be looking for a fight. It's all simply a heightened sense of superiority, unbalanced justice and righteous anger and frankly no one is going to win. We're all going to lose and by "We" I mean the human race in general. We have no idea what we want, what we actually hope to achieve and why we're so terrified of living in a world that isn't all the same. Everybody sees only what they want to see, the statistics change depending on who's being blamed, and who's to be blamed changes with whoever's doing the blaming. It's sad obviously, but really it's nice to know that it's not just Muslims or Pakistanis (as everyone would have you believe) that are capable of being irrational, there are other people throughout the world, who are equally deranged. Yup, this is all going to end really well.

We Have Hope. Well, Ok, It's All We Ever Have, But Still.

Zeb and Haniya- Aitbaar.

It's little things like these that give me hope. That allow me to believe that Pakistan still has so much to offer and so much talent to showcase. The lyrics, the music and the video are all beautifully done and dare to show a side of us that so many on the outside are unaware of. It's not all suicide bombings and dirty politics, there's art and beauty and vitality, and as long as we focus on this and try to encourage it as much as we possibly can, even on a personal level, we still have a bright future to look forward to.