All is humor that ends in humor

Let's consider there's some sort of teacher taking an intermediate mathematics class. Now, something strange about that lady is the fact that she has a brand-new hot red coloured nail polish in her bag and she is constantly planning to complete her class within half an hour so that she could enjoy the rest of the hour polishing her beautiful nails. As she knows that she would not be free at home in order to perform that important and compulsory task.

Taking her plan into consideration, she takes a fairly long sum and asks the students to solve that within 10 minutes. After asking that, she doesn't forget to have a clear look at the confused faces of her students. A charming smile covers the cleverness of her face as the situation of the classroom seems to be in her favour. She doesn't want to waste any more time one so she stands up comes to the dice and says politely to the future of her country “Don't be confused like that my children, open that key book that I suggested to all of you last week and start solving the sum.”
Students now seem to have been fully satisfied by this precious sentence and this awesome suggestion of their kind teacher who would surely not try to tease them by her boring and tiresome lecture. This teacher also becomes happier than before; as now she would surely enjoy the last 30 minutes of her lecture.
The bewitching fact being hidden in that little story is actually covered by some sort of humour. That humour which our corrupt nation builders are applying to the innocent young souls of our country, for that teacher the worth of an intermediate level mathematics book is quite lesser than her newly bought nail polish.
But we can't say that our people have a small amount of wisdom and intellect. All that perfect arrangement of the teacher was the clear symbol that we are all highly intelligent. But the thing is that we are using intelligence for satisfying the thirst of our greediness. That greediness which lies in our unfair actions for making merry among ourselves. That greediness that lies in our everyday corruption, no matter whether the life of that corruption is 30 minutes or one complete hour.
Now we must try to have a look at the 8 hours corruption that is being done by an ordinary citizen, sitting in any office. He comes to office at 9:00 am but owing to the satisfaction of his beloved heart, he opens his laptop at sharp 11:00 am, after seeing his boss entering the office.
To conclude I must add that we are all doing corruption in many ways. That perfectly symbolizes that we are intelligent enough to solve a Rubik cube in just 4.11 seconds breaking all the previous world records.
That's true in any way.

Fatima Shahid
(The writer is member of Positive Pakistan, Lahore.)

Its Never Too Late To Live

“Corruption, corruption, corruption!” that’s the hot potato now a days. The actual difficulty here is how to eradicate this alarming curse from our society which is a big question mark. Everyone is blaming the authorities and the institutions to be corrupt and wants to vanish it in no time like a miracle.

I want to speak the truth but not only sweeter one! The first reality is, the thing which is a descendant of 40-45 years back couldn’t be fixed in a moment. Secondly, its about training as from birth till end our parents teach us at first about moral values and then at school so that we can learn to work as a team with society, to follow a teacher as leader, to work independently at college and totally at self pace a t university. Our books contain a lot of stories from the incidents of our leaders to general, but we go on just reading, cramming and passing out with grades by somehow or other. Our exams are not only a test of how much you absorb but also of the honesty with ourselves, commitment to our goal and dedication towards aim.

We are not learning from this training, we loose essence of all the education. There is a life skill behind each stage, there is a life lesson behind each story. But, we are gaining not even a single thing, passing exams by cheating. In fact not cheating the teachers or fellows but to ourselves. We are not punctual submitting work crossing deadline every single time. Point to ponder is if a person with lower grades couldn’t get any job is it necessary that with the highest grades could get that? If you want to make great achievements take a start with smaller ones. Instead of being in poor politics take step first for your life, it’s never too late to live!

Ramsha Iftikhar

(The writer is Deputy Content Coordinator Faisalabad, E-magazine Positive Pakistan)