How much can people write? How much can they read? How much can they see? And, how much can they exercise patience before going insane? Isn’t the present world order testing this? I keep running away from Instagram all day long because of the aggressive news popping up every second. It makes me wonder, was the world always this active in aggression and brutality? Was the world this badly happening from day one? Everyone oppresses the other as much as they are capable of. People have many justifications for their cruelty. Everyone has so much drama. The world is too opinionated to live in.
Believe me, when I say, this world is hell; unfair and unworthy of being loved. Believe me when I say that nobody is promised tomorrow. I have started seeing and experiencing things that people from other worlds would experience. How have we grown up to hate this world? Taking somebody’s life has become as easy as plucking a flower from the roadside. When did people become this inhuman? I was a person who would talk about the loss of a pencil, the agony of not being allowed to a friend’s birthday party, the crying after being scolded for not eating the greens. But now, I find myself turning into someonewho cries over the loss of loved ones, someone who never seems to have comforting words to offer, someone who has gone numb from seeing people crushed brutally under the heel of the universe over and over. When did the world become this insensitive? When did we become part of all this?
I cannot scroll away from any video of Gazans pleading for a comment, save, like, or share. My conscience won’t let me live. What follows is a bombardment of related posts on my home page. I can neither scroll away nor stop scrolling. How long do you expect me to see children crying, mothers pleading, and amputated men begging? I wanted to be a well-aware citizen of the country so I followed so-called state-run news channels. The more I see the posts, the more I realize how indifferent people are and how sadistic and greedy human nature is. Dawn reports, “A man sentenced to 14 years in prison and a fine of Rs8.1 million for critically injuring his former mother-in-law and her 10-year-old son in a brutal acid attack”. Zvi Sukkot (Israeli Knesset member) says, “Tonight we killed nearly 100 people in Gaza, and no one cares. Because everyone has become used to the fact that 100 Palestinians can be killed in a single night”.
Islamabad Bird shares an incident where “a man died yesterday not from disease, not from old age, but from heartbreak. Near Zia Masjid CDA officials seized a poor vendor’s pushcart. Eyewitnesses say he begged them not to take it, he pleaded over and over again, his voice shaking, hands folded, but they didn’t listen… Minutes later, his heart gave up”
There are so many stories, so much brutality, and so much injustice, that a sane man’s heart would give up, but the world is not giving up on its atrocities, the world is not tired. All I want to do is lock the door and never see a human again, never go out to a world can belongs to power-thirsty people. Aren’t we all tired of waiting for the world to become a better place to live in for so long?
No big dreams, no big wishes, and no big wants, just peace and food, is it too much to ask for?
