Read a book, quite a sensational one, which will make every human being look into himself and find out wether its life worth living that is being lived !!!!!. Intentional Living is an aspect that is seldom explored, we are logs of wood in water taken by a current from places to places, Intentional living is about swimming across the currents,Cutting through challenges and getting to the destination which kindles the light within your soul, which makes you live. For that we need a cause,a direction, an ambition which makes us put a fight, and Mortenson had one, Quite a big reason !!!!!!
"Three cups of tea" has awakened me more than any beverage that I had till date, not that we all can contribute to humanity the way Mortenson does, but the fact that the sheer thought of contribution towards humanity itself is a distant dream. " Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers " is a funny quote that I had heard quite sometime back, Mortensons experiences in Pakistan especially with illiterate and conservative muslims tells us that there are only these religions on this earth, the rich and the poor, the priviledged and the under priviledged,the survivors and Victims, Benificieries and the Exploited.For a teenager in tough terrains of Northern Pakistan, terrorism is not by choice its by force.Education is a luxury and Madrassas the only place to look up for any kind of formal " Education". Mortensons fight to get education in place for girls in Paksitan, is a much better fight that Americas war on terror, A fight which has meaning and sense, a fight which aims at helping a society to reach out to the world. This American getting justice in " Shariat" the most conservative muslim way of delivering justice and that too against powerfull religious leaders in Balti and Skardu, reflects the Quality of Justice system in the most dreaded parts of this world.
More inspiring is the way, this Ex- Mountaneer, Sleeps in the car, saves money and tries to get closer to his dream.For us the mortals, even for our selfish needs sacrificing the present for the future, always remains a challenging task.Shells that we fire against Pakistan, does not hurt the terrorists and the fundamenatlists, doesnt get to the Musharaff's and Bhuto's, all it does is to make a bunch of people homeless, kids fatherless and thier future hopeless.
Everywehere on this earth,there is only one war that is waged, the war to keep the strata of this society alive, the war to ensure that a bunch of people remains who could be exploited, a bunch who remains dependent on the upper class, A kwan which ensures that the life of others is easier, though thiers continues in misery.Every war, every struggle is waged at the cost of the poor, the blood that is spilled,does not get accounted under Jehad or under the Saffron register, It gets registered in the hearts of the families who loses thier sole bread winners, under wounds which leaves scars for a life time. I love Pakistan and the people there, Why would I fight a tyrant thousand miles a way, when there are thousand tyrants for me to fight a mile away.
