“WHY ME…?” OR “WHY NOT ME?”

Giving a thought to this topic has given me the strength to confess.

I CONFESS THAT I HAVE FAILED, MOST OF THE TIMES, IN REALISING THE MEANING OF THE TITLE ABOVE. SOME YEARS AGO A SOCIAL RESEARCH/ SURVAY DEPICTED THAT THE MOST COMMENLY USED WORD IN THE WORLD WAS “I”. I WANT THIS…; I WISH THAT…, I AM…, I THOUGHT…, MY…, MINE… AND MANY MORE ARE COMMON IN OUR DAILY SPEECH. IF WE JUST COUNT FOR ONE DAY HOW MANY TIMES WE UTTER THIS WORD WE SHALL BE ASTONISHED. JUST GIVE IT A TRY AND YOU WILL FIND THE TRUTH BEHIND IT…
BUT WHAT AM I ADVOCATING?
IS IT ONLY THE QUESTION OF USE OF “I” OR IT HAS SOME OTHER SYMBOLIC ASPECTS…
IT IS PROVING DIFFICULT FOR ME TO EXPRESS WHAT I WANT TO SAY SO PLEASE BEAR WITH ME IF THERE COME ANY AMBIGUOS THOUGHT DIRECT ON THE PAGE.
THIS FREQUENT USE OF “I” HAS MADE MOST OF US SELF CENTRED; A CULTURE OF SELFISH AND RUTHLESS BEHAVIOUR IS PREVAILING. THERE IS SOME THING EVEN MORE DANGEROUS THAN THIS. WHEN ONE FACES A CRISES OR A LOSS ONE CURSES ALL THE THINGS AROUND FOR THAT LOSS EXCEPT ONESELF. ONE WOULD EVEN CURSE THOSE WHO HAVE ACHIEVED SUCCESS IN LIFE… THIS IS COMMON SCENE IN THE SOCIETY OF WHICH WE ARE A PART. THIS IS ALL BECAUSE “I” HAS BEEN SCENE ONLY FROM ONE ANGLE GENERALY, UNIVERSALLY. WE ALL HAVE SCENE IT FROM THE SIDE WHERE WE STAND; THE OTHER SIDE IS ALWAYS SHADOWED.
CURSING OTHERS FOR WHAT “I” HAS LOST, OR / AND WHAT “I” HAVE NEVER GAINED, EVEN CURSIN OTHERS FOR WHAT THEY HAVE GAINED, And ALWAYS SAYING “WHY ME..........?”
BEING RESPONSIBLE, EDUCATED, POSITIVE AND PROGRESSIVE PART OF “MY” COMMUNITY “I” WISHS TO ADVOCATE AND “I” MUST; IF SOME ONE HAS REACHED GLORY OR ACHIEVED SUCCESS WHY CAN’T “I” DO THAT, WHY SHOULDN’T “I” SAY “I” CAN ALSO DO IT IF “I” TRY IT… SO WHY NOT THAT WE TAKE IT AS “WHY NOT ME…….?”

SO AM I... DEMOCRATIC

THOUGH IT IS NOT MATTER OF ANY DEBATE BUT I WISH TO PUBLISH THE COMMENT OF THE FRIEND (HE MADE THIS COMENT ON E MAIL) WHO'S REFERENCE I MADE IN THE "DREAMS". I WANT TO DO IT BECAUSE I HAVE GREAT REGARD FOR HIM AND HIGHLY RESPECT HIS OPENION. SO HERE IS HIS COMMENT.
"Somewhere I read, something like, the people who make their way in life are the people who get on with life and look for opportunities and if cannot find them, make them and I believe that when something is pursued with utmost devotion success is bound to come in one way or the other, sooner or later. Being optimist about something is not only good but necessary if you really want to taste the fruit of success, but when you are living in a country like Pakistan you have to be reasonably realist in approach as well, I read a quote about optimism and remember it for a day like this, it says “The real optimist is the person who while falling from the Eiffel tower says, See I am still alive.” Being an optimist blindly without realizing the ground realities may pay no buck. And it does not count what you dream, what counts is whether or not you have the circumstances to translate into reality what you dream about. As for your dream, I have must tell you that whereas it surely isn’t impossible but as I see it, in the current situation it is a very time taking task, these are your formative years I would rather suggest investing your time in more constructive works, perhaps the clouds will get thin with time and you’ll find the opportunity to work on this project ‘properly’, and what you see as a loss of spark is not right, if I seem helpless for your project it is because I have no idea how to guide you on the road of what you have made your destiny when I myself haven’t been on this road. And to refer the lines from the Alchemist, the dunes are changed by the wind but the desert never changes, I am what I am only little changes appear depending upon which way the wind blows. And for Heaven’s sake do not bring the Chief Justice here, it was all politics mostly, and politics you know is a dirty game with no rules and umpire so any result can be expected. Whereas, to may it doesn’t make much sense what I say, I hope you can somewhat follow what I’ve said, and yet disagreeing is always welcome I have a democratic spirit.
Regards,"

DREAMS

"DREAM IS NOT THAT ONE SEES WHILE ONE SLEEPS, RETHER DREAM IS THAT MAKE ONE SACRIFICE ONE'S SLEEP". MOST OF THE TIMES WE SEE PEOPLE ASKING FOR THE MEANINGS OF WHAT THEY SAW LAST NIGNT WHILE IN DEEP SLEEP, THAT IS ONE ASPECT OF THE TOPIC, I WISH TO EXPRESS MY POINT OF VIEW ON ANOTHER ANGLE.
DID IQBAL WAKE UP ONE GOOD MORNING AND SAID MUSLIMS OF INDIA SHOULD HAVE A SAPERATE HOMELAND? OR WAS IT RESULT OF MANY SLEEPLESS NIGHTS? OR DID ALL OF US, FOR THAT MATTER, CHOSE OUR PROFESSIONS IN RESULT OF OUR "DREAMS" IN THE BED? NO NOT AT ALL. MOST OF US FOLLOWED THE DREAMS OF THEIR EYES AND HEARTS, SOME SUCCEEDED AND SOME DID NOT. SAME WAS THE CASE WITH IQBAL IQBAL WHO SAW THE DREAM OF PAKISTAN WITH OPEN EYES.
ONE OF MY FRIEND, TODAY, SHOCKED ME BY EXPRESING HIS "PRACTICAL" CONCERNS ON THE DREAMS I SHARED WITH HIM. I WANT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT I VALUE HIS CONCERNS AND RESPECT HIS POINT OF VIEW BUT I DONT KNOW WHY I SAW DRAIN OF ENERGY AND LOSS OF SPARK IN HIM. BEING PART OF YOUT OF THIS SOCIETY I FEEL THIS OBLIGATION ON MY SHOULDERS TO ENVISSION DREAMS AND TRY TO MAKE THEM TRUE.
I BELIEVE ONLY THE DREAMS CAN TAKE ANY NATION FORWARD, FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T TAKE IT AS DAY DREAMING FAMOUS FOR HILUSINATION. IT POINTS TOWARDS THE DREAM OF IQBAL AND ALL OTHERS OF THAT STATURE. MANY NATIONS HAVE EMERGED VICTIRIOUS BECAUSE THEY FOLLOWED TRAILS OF A DREAM, WHY TO GO FAR AWAY? IF IT IS THE QUESTION OF "PRACTICALITY", MY FRIEND SHOULD REPLY, WAS IT POSIBLE TO RESTORE THE JUDICIARY?

LET'S THINK BIG TO ACHIVE BIG,

LET'S AIM HIGH TO REACH THE TOP,

LET'S BE POSITIVE TO GET POSITIVE RESULTS,

LET'S BE OPTIMISTIC BECAUSE ONLY THE ONE WHO KEEPS HOPE

CAN SURVIVE IN STORM,

LET,S.....

LET'S.....

LET'S.....

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PAKISTAN !

MY GREAT NATION HAS YET AGAIN SURVIVED A SERIOUS JOLT. THOUGH THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RESTORATION OF JUDGES WAS CONTINUING FOR LAST TWO YEARS BUT IT SAW ITS TURNING POINT WHEN THE LAWYERS ANNOUNCED THEIR SECOND LONG MARCH, ONE OF MANY IN THE SHORT HISTORY OF MY GREAT COUNTRY. LONG MARCHES AND SIT INS HAVE MOST OF THE TIMES PAVED WAY FOR THE MID TERM ELECTIONS OR THE NOTORIOUS MARSHAL LAWS. THIS TIME AGAIN SOME WERE LOOKING TOWARDS THE GHQ BUT THANKS GOD GHQ STOOD, FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH THE PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN.
NO SANE PERSON CAN EVER THINK OF APPOSING THE NOBLE CAUSE OF INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY BUT THERE WERE FEW WHO VIEWED IT FROM A BROADER SPECTRUM, AND A VERY FEW WITH THE SPECTACLES OF "CHAIR".
THE VERY FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF PAKISTAN A MASS MOVEMENT HAS SUCCEEDED IN ACHIEVING ITS GOAL OTHERWISE ALL THE PREVIOUS MOVEMENTS HAD RESULTS OTHER THAN THOSE STRIVED FOR. TWO MAJOR EXAMPLES ARE 1- STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS IN EAST PAKISTAN RESULTED IN BANGLA DESH 2- NIZAME MUSTAFA MOVEMENT SUCCEEDED ONLY IN BRINGING IN ZIA-UL-HAQ. HENCE THIS WAS THE FIRST INSTANCE WHEN WE, AS A NATION, ACHIEVED SUCCESS.
I BELIEVE THIS IS A HISTORY IN MAKING AND WE SHOULD CONSOLIDATE OURSELVES AS A NATION ON THIS. CONSIDER IT FIRST STEP TOWARDS ACHIEVING PERMANENT INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY, RULE OF LAW, SUPREMACY OF PARLIAMENT AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN.
Americans ask us "DO MORE" for war on terror but I believe we need to "DO MORE" on independence of judiciary.