Why we want change ???

Yesterday I traveled from Lahore to my ancestral village a few kilometers away from Narowal. There was a huge difference from living standards to ideas and thoughts when compared with our lives in Lahore and all there was a distance of 150 kilometers between the two areas. All along the way there were huge display signs and banners with "We Want Change" written on them. Most of those belonged to Imran Khan's "Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf" but there were also quite a few new names that I had never heard or seen on a banner before yet the message was the same i.e. "We want change" which got me thinking "why do we want change?". What is it that compels us to have a new or different scenario than that we have now? Why do we wish to change the current system? What is wrong with the way things are now?There are so many answers to theses questions. Some are same for everyone and some are different. For someone change means equal opportunity. For someone change means freedom. For someone change means "do waqt ki roti". As a whole change means end of corruption, end of tyranny, end of shortages whether it might be food, electricity, gas, water. But then are we that miserable that we can't take it anymore. If thats the case then why do we allow the system to remain the same. Why do we not act and show our hatred with words only. Are we cowards? Maybe we don't have it in ourselves to stand up and speak for our rights. We gladly stand behind others and say that we want change but when it comes to take the heat we are no where to be found. Just think that if there was no Imran Khan compelling us to have or want change, would we still want change. And if yes then would we be capable to stand on our own to say it out loud without anyone's help. That is a question that we need to ask ourselves.

Posted by Muhammad Mohsin Shahzad

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