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AUGUST 8, 2020

Our lives are such that we are hardly ever out of questions. Just taking a glance at a few popular and most
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recurring ones will bear witness to this. What’s up? How are you? Where are you? Where are you going?
Who are you going with? When will you come back? When will you call again? When will you meet again?
When will you marry? When will you buy a new house? When will you get a new car? Or asking differently, The case for strengthening
why do you judge so much? Why do you interfere so much? Why do you shop so much? Why do you parliament
worry so much? Why do you ight so much? Why do you cling so much? Why do you eat so much? Why do
you sleep so much? And the list goes on and on. Ironically, however, we are often out of mind, out of
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control, out of order, out of wits, out of phone credit, out of cash, out of classroom, out of job but never
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ever out of questions. As if the sole end of life is mundane enquiry.

Despite these day-to-day interrogations, one question that has always dominated our early teen years Our common questions

without exception and sexism (since it is posed to both men and women) is: what would you want to be
when you grow up? The response, as you would admit, is as common as the question itself. For our young
males the typical and cliché d replies are: I want to be an engineer, an army of icer, a police of icer, a CSP Politics-game or profession?
of icer, a magistrate, a judge or a politician. Whereas for young females it is con ined to being a doctor, a
teacher, or a happy wife (although most prioritized but least expressed)

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This precision and spontaneity makes one wonder about the whereabouts of all the other career choices shine
such as: sportsmanship, leadership, entrepreneurship, psychologist, artist, journalist, scholar, philosopher,
lawyer, gardener, farmer, counsellor, mathematician, musician, librarian, chef, chauffeur, accountant,
counsellor, spiritual heeler, or beautician. And one really worries about where they all disappeared. One
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asks did somebody do a prioritisation of a handful of professions? Or did somebody imbue us with a
disdain for alternatives? Or did we get used to giving predictable, automated and ready-made answers?
Whatever the indings, could we ever muster the courage to blame ourselves for this lop-sidedness? Well, Cops kill citizen, injure
partly, yes. This is because we chose not to stand up against the mainstream thoughts or trends. We chose another over
not to challenge the unchallenged trend-setters. We chose to submit ourselves unre lectively and ‘misunderstanding’ in
empowered the untrammelled traditions to persist and narrow our life choices to a cherry-picked few and Karachi

comforted ourselves with our most favourite antidepressant: kismet mein likha tha (it was destined/pre-
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Today when we realize this we can at least try not to continue blaming our for criticism: Buzdar
society alone for its members’ shape and make it. Instead we can take a few
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daily moments to sit ourselves down to introspect every nook and crony of our assistance of deserving
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So weak we are. Alas, so timid we are that we cannot speak our hearts out to our dear ones without a lawmaker

guilty or blasphemous heart. This is because our society has never valued empowering and decentralizing
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others. It has never experienced detachment from mainstream thoughts. It has never made it an agenda to
make us autonomous beings of our choices, rationality & expression. Much contrary, it has merely imposed
on us its untested values impairing us from developing our own sense of the self and the world around us. BUSINESS

Today when we realize this we can at least try not to continue blaming our society alone for its members’
shape and make it. Instead we can take a few daily moments to sit ourselves down to introspect every nook
 and crony of our beings to know who we are and what we want and where we are headed. This will set a KSE-100: Record volumes lift
beginning in the long process of transformation. As it will prepare us to relinquish our clinginess to index above 40,000 level

societal pressures, expectations and norms and experience the distinctiveness of our existence and come
up with new answers to our old questions. Such that our answers will outgrow the likes of the past and we
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would want to be our true selves, true potential and true identity. Let us all, then, take a step-up pledge
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with ourselves that we will not bow to the unchallenged structures and take every opportunity to unfold
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Easier said than done. This is possible if instead of spending our valuable time on asking everyday after $600 federal check
questions and repeating automated responses we focus on inding our passions and interests and pursue ends

them even if we fall behind the herd mentality. In this way our society will have diversity of professions and
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a culture of valuing one’s calling for its own sake will nurture. The net result will be a heterogeneous
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society with elbow space for difference and divergence which at the moment is painfully lacking. To this choices as US aid expires
end parents can play up a pivotal role for this institution is the hub of many of our life choices. They should
take special caution to expose their children to a spectrum of options, alternates and career pathways so as Oil prices pull back from ive-
to channelize an evolving society and lourishing and ful illing members. month highs as rising
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