why doesn't pakistan have its own genius children to brag about? why aren't there news stories about 4 year olds who can multiply 6 digit math numbers in their head? as a nation are we stupid?
Q: if there was such an aformentioned prodigy, what would happen to them?
A: rich; they'd be sent abroad: poor; ignored, whelped and made to beg at the local street corner.
genius and practicality rarely mix. maybe we're just a giant country of untapped potential. maybe the aunty next door negotiating tailor rates actually has an IQ of 300. maybe the buswalla passing my car knows that one physics theory everyone has been searching for for centuries. maybe we go through our lives trying so hard to blend in, so hard to adapt to the rules, so hard to live up the labels slapped on our foreheads since birth that we forget to reach as high and as hard as we can, and in doing so actually achieve something orignal, something beyond medocrity. maybe one day we'll break through our internalized colonial shackles and actually stop running to easier lives abroad and choose to dig in the trenches that will make our country what it could actually become.
till that day, i guess i'll just keep numbing myself to reality as much as possible. i'll continue to do the minimum possible work and "get by" the job and life that i hate. i'll continue to sit by the phone and wait for miserable excrement that are men to make my life complete so i can procreate and eventually fulfill the destiny that was slapped on in small print in my birth contract.
but until that time, from the land of untapped doogie howsers, child protegies and stephan hawkins' this is Ms. Feet signing out.
8 comments:
ouch. very cynical. pretty true, but very cynical. have faith my sweet. one should have hope till one goes over 45. till then, dream on.
hmMm.. why would you assume i'm not over 45?
and what does 45 signify anyway? the age where we suddenly sit up and go: "ok we can be cynical now"
age is a mindset.. i think i was born 140 years old :)
i think i am in love
=P
ps - well i would have said 42. that's the magic number. or so says douglas adams. i just gave you a few years more cuz you;re a woman
=P
actually, friends say i talk like a 40 year old. that leaves 100 odd years of solitude. what say we give it a shot?
wow.. blog flirting.. a new low
:)
yes well. i try. i am very deprived right now. filling out the damn graduation form, and it aint pleasant. i need my lil highs, even its flirting on blogs with unknown females of doubtful gender.
kid? i am offended. i am 25+ years of age woman. take those words back!!
back i say!! or prepare to face my wrath!!
hmm 6 figures? is that with or without decimals? and i assume that is the iraqi currency?
bus..doli tayyar kar lain aap
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