Becoming Superman...A wish

I remember when I was a child of about 5-6 year, one day I started insisting to my mother that I want to become superman and she will have to do this by all means. As stubborn child I continued my insisting that she will have to make me Superman. Being a loving and caring mother, she always tried her best to fulfill all my possible wishes. But this wish was certainly not possible to be fulfilled. My mother tried to explain me, how I could become Superman.

She told me, that I can only become Superman when I reach to the age of 10 because till that time my bones will be strong enough to stop a train with my power and at the same time I will easily fly. I was satisfied with the answer and agreed to wait for a few more years.

By the age of 10, I was sensible enough to understand what the reality of Superman is, just a comic hero and nothing else, and surly becoming Superman was no more my wish.
Today when I remember all this, I realize that…”How stupid my wish was” and “How wise was my mother answer”????

Obama-The Winner of Noble Peace Prize

I remember when there were some schools in our time where the children of the rich were the one who always came first in their class, irrespective of their performance in study. The reason behind this was, that the school administration had to give prize to the position holder i.e. a book, pen,pencil or a plastic cup etc., and for the school administration it was hard to find a worthy student for the prize. Usually the poor students were the one who were good in studies but being poor they were not eligible for the prize, therefore the children of rich and mighty always used to be position holder.

The winning of prize definitely gives satisfaction irrespective of its value, but it gives real satisfaction when the winner feels that he really deserve it.

I am sure Obama will be surprised and shocked and will definitely think and laugh at the real joke that h append with him in the form of Noble Peace Prize.

The winner of Noble Peace Prize is the President of a country that is famous for invading and destroying sovereign countries, killing people, shedding blood and sponsoring terrorism and the winner of Peace prize is a person who still overseer wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, who is ready to send more troops to kills more people, who is continuously carrying out deadly attacks on Pakistan and Somalia in the name of Anti-terrorism, who is threatening an Islamic country Iran for due to its nuclear program but sponsoring a terrorist country Israel for the same.

Till now I was considering the Noble Prize as one of the prestigious prize and to be eligible for, one must have distinctive contribution in the respective field. But today when the Peace prize is given to a person in the name of peace initiatives in the forms of just a few words, tomorrow I may also get one for Economics by just holding an Economics book in hand???

Gaza-Where Terrorists Tests their Weapon

The experiments of testing advance weapons made by Americans and Israelis virtually came to halt in the laboratory of Gaza. The experiments heavily funded by Americans Tax payer’s money were aimed at gauging the effect of new weapons over living and un-living objects. The result includes over 1300 dead, and around 5000 injured. About 20000 buildings were destroyed including houses of Palestinians, markets, offices, schools, roads and other infrastructure. These experiments were the continuation of previous tests carried out in Lebanon. The results of these experiments are quite satisfactory for all those people who are involved in making, funding, supplying, using and supporting the use of the weapons against Palestinians. 

Surely, the successful tests will revive the weapon industry and give a boom to the economies of those countries that heavily rely on sale of weapons of mass destruction. The arms making factories will work again and the people working in these factories will be able to live a better life with their family by having a secure job.

Similarly, the people of Israel will also be able live a safe and secure life, without any fear of home made rocket attacks. Indeed the killing of over 1200 Palestinians in response to the death of an Israeli occupant should be enough to make them Israelis feel secure.
Hmmm Great!!!

Now let’s have a look over the experiments objects, The Palestinians. What are actually these Palestinian things, Robots, Puppets, Human models made of wood/clay/stones, animals, plants or real human beings? Or they are some character of a video game where they are shot and killed to achieve the game’s objectives?

Looking much closer, I see blood coming out of their wounds, real red blood, yes I can feel them breathing, they are crying, they are feeling the pain, they want to live, they are trying to say something but I can’t hear????  

If they look like human beings, they act like human beings, they eat, they drink, they talk, they walk, they, laugh, they cry, the listen, they see, they feel, they born, they grew, they marry, they make families, they give births, they dies, they builds homes, they live in there with their families. They work for living a better life, they try to earn, they buy, they sell, the sleep, they wake, they become sick, they feel pain, they have blood running in their veins, they takes breaths, ….. If there is so much common among human beings and Palestinians, the surely they are equal human beings like me and you. And if they are really human beings why the rest of the world particularly the west is silent over their brutal killings. Why the anti terrorism champions are silent over the American sponsored Israeli terrorism. Why can’t we feel the pain of their wounds? Why don’t we see children who have lost their parents? Why don’t we see the parents holding the mutilated bodies of their innocent children? Why don’t we understand the feelings of people who will have to pass the rest of life without arms, without legs, without sight, without talking, without hearing, why? Can they get back their loved ones? Can the civilized human beings of the modern world and the humanitarian champions answer these questions???

Surely not, but at least I need one answer…..
Whether the Hamas, who’s fired rocket that killed one Israeli occupier, are terrorists or the Israelis, the killers of 1300 innocent Palestinians, including man, women and children who are the real owners of the land, are terrorists?
 
Whether the people supporting the Palestinians right of their own land or terrorists or the western world and Americans, who support the Israeli occupation, are terrorists?

Collective Isolation-Bringing closer or Getting far

I belong to a small village and living in a city. Like most of the people in the city, I depict to be a busy person who is having little time for social interaction despite having a lot of free time. Simply, in materialistic environment, with having a lot of people around us, we are living a self made physical and mental isolation. Being busy, having no time, tight schedule, less interaction, these are terms that became fashion words in this time of deceptive world. But alone we all think that we cannot leave alone, we need people around us to talk with, to share with, to lesson to whom but our masked faces restrict us from doing so as we may be called backward people living in the world of fantasies.

I rarely go to my village, usually two to four times a year and that is mostly on Eid or some other occasions. Despite having very much little interaction with the local people I always got very warm response from them. This is something we usually don’t see in the cities. On the main road to our village house the distance is about one kilo meter that I usually pass by foot. During this travel of one kilometer, if I come across 50 people, almost all of them used to greet me, in fact not only me but every one on their way. And this was the beauty of the village that I always liked despite all its backwardness and lack of facilities.

Last year, I had to go to village to attend a function of my cousin’s wedding. I dropped on the main road and from their to my village house as usual I traveled by foot. But this time I felt a lot of difference in the behavior of the people. Except of few elder people, hardly 30 out of an average of 50 people greeted me. The rest were so busy that they even bothered to look at the other people. When I reached to the place of the function, the same situation was also there. And the reason for this change was the installation of a mobile phone tower in the village. Indeed this was a communication development and a step to contact my backward village to the rest of the world. But the facility that meant to shorten the distances, to bring people closer has brought such changes in the people minds that have even lost the people near around them. On the way to my village, I was greeted by those people who were not having mobile phone, the rest who were having this facility were either busy in miscalls, typing/reading sms, listening songs or playing ring tones. Similarly in the wedding place, despite a big gathering of people, everyone was busy either showing their new phone to others, typing/reading text or just talking on phone or playing the games or listening the songs and ring tones. Those without the gadget were free to see people around them and to interact.

I am not against the development but against the curse of development. We people have turned to be blind followers. We are losing our own identity, while portraying to be what we are not. The Eid, that was a big occasion to bring people closer, from Eid card, to phone call, is now just limited to an sms. What I feel is that we are going towards collective isolation. Despite having around a lot of people like us, who dress like us, who talk like us, who eat like us, who behave like us, we are alone.