Identity. It’s quite ironic how an eight-lettered word sums up your entire life. If you’re from Pakistan? Eid Mubarak. India? Happy Holi. America? Merry Christmas. What does this tell you? Your identity is derived from where you belong. Your homeland. And when you belong to a place, your cultural background (traditions, rituals, and festivals such as Eid, Holi, and Christmas) comes in context as well. Now, what do you do with the place you call ‘home’? You make sure it’s clean, all things are in their place, and a sense of harmony is created and maintained. The question that now rises is, what have you done with YOUR home? What have you done with Pakistan? What once was the land of purity has now, been maligned with impure acts of treachery, fraud, embezzlement, and greed to the point where citizens have begun abandoning everything they once lived for, only to live a healthy lifestyle, if not luxurious. Leaving your homeland and being a foreigner. Sounds fun? It’s not. You leave behind your loved ones, and most importantly the feeling of ‘home’. The feeling of knowing that there’s a place which will always embrace you with its nostalgic fragrance. But, what about … Continue reading Pakistan; Withering of an Evergreen Tree