Make up blog: To help or to let die?

Pakistan is a nation full of passion, hope and emotions. One word which describes this nation is “JAZBA.” There is not a single day when we do not talk about bringing a real change to Pakistan, we talk about making a Naya Pakistan, we talk about saving rights of poor, of creating a Pakistan which treats its women equal to its men and many more things, what we forget to mention in all of this is to change ourselves.

During spring break I happened to visit the ecstatic land of Kashmir, full of mountains, greenery, incessant rivers, rugged landscapes and beautiful people. Kashmir is the land where the fish would never know if they are swimming in azad or disputed waters. It is a place we love so much and we have been fighting for since the partition but in all of this we have forgotten the people who have suffered for so long that they forgotten distinction between help and impediment. During my time in beautiful land of Kashmir I enjoyed the serene peace in the sound of its rivers. On the way back something happened which changed my perspective of war to take control of Kashmir. I happened to witness a grave accident, car driver fled from the scene leaving fractured biker on the road. I and some of my friends out of humanity tried to help the biker, by giving him water in the scrooching heat, gave him first aid and called his family members to take him to the hospital. Our humanity was not answered with thank you notes but with accusations; these people blames us for the accident and tried to harm our group and hit out driver without even listening to our side of the story. We were in luck and a police choke happened to be near the accident place, a policeman came to check what was happening. On explaining the situation to him, he calmed them and let us go on our way numb with fear and with lost faith in humanity.

These people have seen war and terror for so long that they cannot believe in a simple act of kindness and help and every person is considered to be an enemy. After experiencing all of this, what I have realized as a Pakistani is that the change we need is not in the system but we need to change ourselves first and only then we can even start to talk about changing the systems around us. Unless we change our own attitudes we cannot make a real change and we have no right to talk about change.