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Depression—ulcer for the society

by Qurat ul ain

Depression is an unavoidable fact, a disease which must be cured but for this it must be addressed properly and openly. In our society- typical Asians- it is not accepted a disease rather when it is heard that someone is suffering from depression, he is ridiculed by saying that depression doesn’t exist, its just a melodrama. This is mostly claimed by the elders of our society. This attitude must be changed. Our youth is depressed. I don’t know why but I’ve seen mostly students being the depressed souls. Some of our ‘wise elders’ claimed that it has become a fashion to be called depressed that’s why it is common in youngsters. But this is not true. Instead of denying the fact that our new generation is depressed we must try to cure it.

In my opinion, depression prevailing in youngsters is inculcating by the society. Almost Every youngster is in depression, some are tensed because of their career, some are conscious of their grades, some are worried about their poor financial conditions, some are worried about their relationship and so on. All these tensions lead to over thinking, which is also a disease, also a root cause of depression. It is like a termite which eats up all the abilities and capabilities of a man.

To be worried about grades, financial conditions, career is not bad but to be depressed due to all this is not acceptable. No one would depress due to all these worries if there would be no judgmental society. It is the judgmental people in our society who lead our generation to the demon of depression. People should understand that being a school teacher doesn’t mean that a person is not respectable citizen as compared to the person serving in public commission. First of all there should be no comparison of being respectable whether the person is a school teacher, a CSP officer, a doctor, an engineer, a gatekeeper, a guard. Everyone is respectable if he/she is not committing any criminal activity. But the society, people around, judge on the basis of the job a person is doing by comparing them with the merits of success and respect they have set in their minds. They are being judged on the basis of the merits of the office, not on personal merits. Most of the students are depressed due to low grades, they have fear of being judged on the basis of the grades which is inevitably true. I’ve seen many of the students crying in washrooms, sports complex, corners of gardens in the university and the reasons are the same which I’ve mentioned. Some are being depressed due to not being acceptable to people just because they are told that they are not beautiful or fat or dressing or having weird voice etc, some are worried due to grades, some have financial problems, some have family problems, some are conscious of grades. They would not be depressed if they are not judged by the society on the basis of grades, jobs, financial conditions or having a different personality. If they would told that it is okay to be different, it is okay to have low grades, they would not suffer from this disease.

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Responsible of Deforestation—government or laymen( farmers,shepherd)

by Qurat ul ain

I can’t understand one thing that how all these ‘literate, responsible professionals’ whether ministers or celebrities when talk on any environmental forum, blame farmers or shepherds etc of deforestation.

Though the farmers are the backbone of pakistan’s economy as they are playing vital role in raising the economy. But this is also a fact that inspite of being the richest class, farmers are the poorest of all in Pakistan. This is another debate. Coming back to their role in deforestation, they are living in areas most of which are even devoid of natural gas supply. As in balochistan, people living near the villages of Sui—which you can say the center of Sui gas supply to whole Pakistan—are deprived of this blessing. They are compelled to cut trees, use them for burning purposes to drive their lives so far. It is impossible to live without food and for this they have to cut trees for fuel.

While in northern areas where nature is the queen, where calmness is prevailed, where mountains are standing like a silent protectors—terrifying the viewers with their heights and at the same time fascinating them. People go there from far off places just to inhale that captivating atmosphere. Natives of these areas are deprived of comforts of life as there is no supply of electricity and gas in most of the areas. To endure the temperature lower than 0^oC, they need fire which they get from woods by cutting trees and these people are being criticized on environmental forums by these people sitting in a room with heaters having temperature 25.

No doubt! This deforestation is the major concern but the problem is that they have no choice except to cut the forests down.

Here the need is that we must provide them with alternatives. Such as ‘gacifiers’. Gacifiers doesn’t even require gas or electricity, they run on ‘biofuels’, so are ecofriendly. In Europe these have been used but in Pakistan there is not even a single industry who could make this. A student of UET has taken the initiative and made ‘ bio-pallets’ from agricultural waste which costs just 20/- per kg. There must be bulk production of bio pallets and gacifiers in Pakistan. Government should plant industries for this, it doesn’t require very high cost, it just need some professionals, space and little cost. Farmers would sell out their waste to these industries which would be used as raw material and in return bio-pallets must be provided to those farmers.

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Industries in a city—blessing or curse for the natives.

by Qurat ul ain

Having industries in one’s city is considered a blessing as there would be more opportunities be available to them. No doubt industries in a city are blessing as they provide opportunities to the natives but at the same time it’s a curse too due to their poor administration and management. Where these industries in a city are taking a lot of jobless into their arms, at the same time these are being a curse to the other inhabitants of that city due to the pollution it is creating and root cause is the same ‘poor management’ of industry.

I’ll talk about my native town- bhalwal. It’s a small town with four i- one textile mill, a sugar mill, a flour mill and a dairy products manufacturer industry within the main city and many other kinno factories at the surroundings. This has created ‘under the dome’ condition. Talking about the sugar mill which is located in the heart of the city which has two industries in it—sugarcane unit, sugar formation unit, distally. For this a lengthy lane of trucks loaded with tons of sugar cane was been there on the roads starting from mill extending to the outside of city till 18 NB, causing blockage of roads. This had also been the root cause of accidents. Deaths of 30 teenagers was recorded within a month, due to the accidents on the roads. A petition was submitted against this problem of road blockage by natives of the city. Now this problem has been solved by restricting the entry of those trucks of sugarcane to the night and also their lane was restricted to the road on which this industry is located. The another major problem of this mill is the ‘fly ash’ which is the waste of sugar industry. This black colored ash can be found everywhere on roofs , courtyards and even rooms of houses blackening them even on your clothes you are wearing outside the house. Besides this, it is damaging the electronic products to such an extent that the locals of bhalwal cannot use LED’s more than 3 months. People having such industrial units in their city, contributing in the economy of country but can’t be able to use advanced LED’s. Isn’t it ridiculous? But that’s true and the reason is the poor administration due to which this fly ash is ruining their comforts.

A couple of days ago I gotta visit this industry (with reference of my uncle) and when I asked them about their waste control strategies, they showed me the catchers–for capturing fly ash and water treatment plant. The fact is that a few of those catchers were in working conditions and that water treatment plant was treating water just for the boiler not to treat waste water. This is how all these industries are working

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My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Be yourself- because everybody else is taken.

Qurat ul ain

‘Slavery is a theft- theft of life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of a children a slave might have borne.’

(Kavin bale)

To be called a slave does not suit to man- the superior creature. Slavery is not just to have cruel rulers over the country, slavery has different forms. Everyone is slave- slave of people’s opinion, slave of past, slave of imaginary ideals which we long to be, slave of fear, slave of despair and so on. The interesting fact is that we all are slaves but no one of us acknowledge this and its a worst scenario.

About 70% of our youth is depressed. Every 4 out of 5 youngsters are in depression. What is the reason? Apart from chemical, medical and genetical reasons, slavery of people’s opinion is the main and its getting worse. This has been tradition of this world to judge everybody else since the creation of man, judge the other person by his/her profession, looks, creed and so on. History has witnessed that it is the part of human nature to keep envy in heart. Youth of this century is depressed because of the slavery of public opinion. survey has revealed that 89% of our youth is depressed due to low grades, low job or lack of job, relationship problems, family problems, lack of true friends, lack of true happiness, emptiness and so on. To be conscious about grades, job, relationship etc is justified but to be depressed because of these reasons is totally not acceptable. Society judge them on these parameters. Are we going to be in this chaos till death?

This world is not going to change its attitude but what could change is how you respond to these problems. Man had come to this world all alone and he has to leave this world alone. He has to deal with these circumstances all alone and believe me, he is full of this capability. All he need to do is to explore himself. This world is cruel, it doesn’t know the meaning of mercy. So our youth is in dire need of exploring their selves. Be, who you are. Never let anyone’s opinion define your ‘self’. Explore your attributes.

In ‘The power of your subconscious mind’, Murphey Joseph has described that man has 2 minds, subconscious mind and a conscious mind. By conscious mind, we take conscious decisions like what to wear or what to eat etc. but the conscious mind drives our body, our soul, our vision. And our subconscious mind is devised by our conscious mind. It’s a cycle. Our brain is like a road, every type of thought came into it including despair, worry, sadness, uselessness etc. but if we consciously overthink it and make an assumption in favor of any of this thought, our subconscious would believe it and will not prepare our body for that particular scenario. For instance, imagining any situation a thought pop up into your mind that you can’t do this and you agree in your mind, your subconscious would believe this. And whenever that situation prevails, our subconscious had not prepare our body to cope with that up, thus we fail and get depress.

For this it is necessary to make your subconscious clear in vision. For this, you have to command the subconscious, this is the right way to control the subconscious. It will make the search of ‘self’ happen and to have ‘own’ personality.

Smog is beatable

by Qurat ul ain

I am not here to tell what smog is? What are its adverse effects? Why does it prevails? etc because we all are well known of what smog is and what hazardous effects it can cause as we have gone through live experience of its effects minor or major, because we had been living in a country which has worst air quality index, Lahore being the top in list of most polluted cities in 2019 with AQI reaching upto almost 600. While the optimum AQI is 50-100 and 100-150 is unhealthy.

Some experts claim that it is because of the increasing number of private transport in Pakistan. People prefer private transport rather than public. And they are seemed comparing Pakistanis with Europeans by claiming that Europeans prefer public transport instead of private one. But if we go through the statistics, it is proved that Europeans and Chinese are ranked higher in using private transport while Pakistan is at 160^th number in using private cars .i.e. 18 cars per 1000 inhabitants.

Rank	Country	Number of Vehicles Per 1,000 Inhabitant
1	San Marino	1263
2	United States	910
3	Monaco	899
4	New Zealand	774
5	Liechtenstein	773
6	Iceland	745
7	Australia	740
8	Guam	677
9	Luxembourg	662
9	Canada	662
11	Italy	625
12	Malta	615
13	Finland	604
14	Cyprus	595
15	Japan	591
16	Poland	571
17	Germany	555
18	Austria	550
19	Switzerland	539
20	Bahrain	537

We can see that Pakistan is not here in even top 20 countries who are using more private cars. These countries have more private transport than Pakistan but still have good Air quality. It is cleared now that number of private or public transport doesn’t matter that much as good administration does.

When London smog prevailed, it was controlled by

Restricting private transport to specific timings
Even-Odd number plates were used
Vehicles were monitored to make them ecofriendly by using catalytic convertors
Green stickers were used to distinguish ecofriendly vehicles from others
Vehicles with green stickers were allowed on the roads
Private vehicles were fined if they would go to roads with heavy traffic or during the restricted times

These steps could be followed to get rid of this envelope of smog in Pakistan.

Haw- haye culture:

by Qurat ul ain

This haw- haye has become the part of our culture in Pakistani society and is deep rooted to such an extent that it has been determining the destinations and paths of our people. There is a group of judgmental people including men and specially women (of any age including aunties) who are sustaining this culture till now.

Every person including men and women has its own dreams, passions, desires, aims and goal, and they are created to achieve them. Every living being who can breathe has right to live its own desires, dreams and passions. The 2^nd person is no one to even interrupt.

But in our society, if a girl wants to ride bike, in the view of our society, she is a bad girl; “haw-haye larkiyan bike nai chalati, achi bat nai hoti.” If a girl wants to do a job, society doesn’t consider her a good girl; “haw-haye larki kam kary g, ghar sambhalo beth kar.” Even they want girls to dress up according to their wish. And this kind of people are present in every age-group and in every social class of Pakistan who don’t want girls to live their dreams and passions but to live according to their choices.

This culture is not confined to women only but men are also facing this. Men are considered to be the symbol of chivalry, bravery and courage, so he must not weep, he must not get tired, he must not listen to his wife’s words, he must not cook and the list is so long. Men are also humans, they also have the same passions, desires and dreams. But in our society, if a man wants to become a chef; “haw- haye, mard khana thori bnaty hain.” If a man cries, he is considered coward; “haw-haye, mard roty thori hain.” If a man helps his wife in daily chaos, he is not a good man; “haw-haye, joru ka ghluam hai yeh”.

This haw-haye culture is ruining every person. Let people live their lives according to their choices. Let be freed from this haw-haye culture. LIVE AND LET PEOPLE LIVE!

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