Soldiers, spies, scientists sacrifice it all for us. But are we worth the sacrifice? Something that I've thought about since I was much younger.
[Can categorise as fan art. Made with AI. Obviously.]
Ae meri zameen afsoss nahi
Jo tere liye sau dard sahe
Mehfooz rahe teri aan sada
Chaahe jaan meri ye rahe na rahe
They do it all to keep us safe. To keep us mehfooz. And we salute them for that.
We salute them and then what do we do? We leave it at that.
They have die, get split apart and sacrifice it all not just to protect us but also for us to grow, prosper, progress.
To keep our flag flying high.
But what about the idiots who are hell bent on ensuring our country never progresses? Corrupt politicians and corrupt people.
This image is for us to think.
For us to act.
For us to question.
There are many Jaskirats we don't know of. Many Majors, Subedars and Captains we see in our newspapers often with weeping families around them. Scientists who work for peanuts to ensure we are technologically ahead of our enemies who get snuffed out.
All for what?
For you to be quite when the world laughs at us for our garbage?
For you to think it's uncool to go and blast those people who break signals?
They'll spit red blood for you but you will shut up when some idiot spits red paan in front of you on our motherland?
For you to be so busy that a few of you young men (and women) cant go and stop those who drive wrong way and block every arterial road in our cities or kill someone?
For you to not question your local MLA (Yes local MLA and not some heads of big parties etc). The one who pockets most of our taxes meant for footpaths and roads and signages?
For you to just be happy seeing lowly Pakistan and Bangladesh? When many other developing countries are 50-60 years ahead?
Until then, they keep sacrificing of course.
We never cared because we lack empathy anyway.
Hope you can share this image at least in your whatsapp groups, insta, facebook etc. The least you can do. No need of credits. I just want some change. Some start.
Jai Hind.