Thankfully to our cable operator, I have very limited choices and normally you would find me just changing channels to get to the other side of clock arm; one of those similar days, a road show caught me a little interested, unlike all the others; the host was very eager to know the answers of our problems, he was constantly asking for it every time someone started to tell the old same story of our problems and demon of corruption we have upon us, out of those people their was a man, aged between 60-65, with a beard and a bored look on his face, indifferent to his appearance he was very subtle in his speech;
"We have no one to blame but us, we have allowed ourselves to decay with time, we have tried this time and time again but yet we don't understand that we are the ones who will change our life style, if you want to carry on for next 50 years finding that one man who could solve your problems than you are welcome but we have no vision no direction and I see myself dying in vain"
He was calm yet couldn't hide the tears; everyone was touched for a moment and than the usual happened, realizing the blame the crowd erupted in defense that they haven't contributed to any of this. Impressively enough the man just wouldn’t step back, he listened to every one of them, the road show suddenly became a court room where he found himself cornered, I was loosing patience with it when he finally got to hold the mic again,
form sea-shore of Karachi to mountains of Nnaga-parbat, I ask only one question from my young children (he was obviously referring to the youth), you remember that crash in Rawalpindi?, Yes; they voiced together, than you must certainly have noticed a name, YPP - Youth Parliament of Pakistan, did you?, Yes, they were eager to listen him this time; how many of you admire the idea? Almost everyone raised their hands, including the host; and how many of you have actually joined them or at-least know how to join the initiative?
You can guess the inevitable, he left them puzzled, so as me; knowing that we have the largest population of youth in the whole world, yet only 0.71% of that has joined YPP. Everyone is not a starter, similar to when we broke the glass of neighbor's house, eventually to get the ball back we found someone to take the initiative, every one saw the man as an Enemy of the State but he gave something to think about.
Below is the link, its your call
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