Honey! The crumbs are for the children

I just love the company of my grandfather and his friends. A bunch of old retired people who have travelled around the world and enjoyed their time in exotic place sitting together in funny coats. Some smoke pipe while others just to get in the game smoke Rothmans and the hardcore ones are okay with a glass of whisky. The funniest part is when these people discuss talk. Sometimes its politics, economics or just an anecdote and sometimes, if u get lucky then you get to listen stories of their past. Most of the time it feels like I am sitting with a think tank that has weird fantasies about the Pakistani politics (No wonder we are screwed up, when the real parliamentarians are sitting in clubs, railway stations and barber shops)

    So here it goes with one man narrating how he got into trouble in a nightclub called Kido, then his partners wanting to pull his leg once more, a laughing session and suddenly one of them goes like “those were the days.” These words start another discussion into another series of events which used to happen in the 60s and the 70s. It turns out that we live in hell right now. Those times were when the people did not worry when they left their gates open. Karachi was a station for bag packers, with a proper night life. Oh not to forget THE SCHOOLS WERE REALLY GOOD because what the oldies say is “hamare time mein kya school hote thay”. I mean life was heaven at that time and these conversations want me to go into a time in which I do not belong.

    I still think that if the present day is as bad as peanut butter put on medium done steak then why is that so? If the quality of education are bad then who made them bad? If institutions failed why did that happen? If the country was turning in to a high school for suicide bombers what did u guys do about it? You were the people who made decisions at that time. Things would have been different if some of you had left that one glass of wine to think about the future and would have done something to change it for better. Why blame the present day people for all the bad things happening around you. I mean we were born with a gift that was in the form of a devil in an army outfit ( I was born a year after his plane crashed), still the point is that you people were in the age group that is considered the most productive in the society by a bunch of development economist lunatics

    And then came the time of wars and turmoil. Not to mention a martial law, a dictatorship, a big plane crash that is still screwing us, a war on terror, couple of suicide bombs and a president who was gifted to us with the death of democracy. Sorry to say people but the oldies screwed up big time. And now they hide the guilt by forcing us to do something with youth development programs and leadership sessions. Not that I have a bias towards them. All I want is the blame and bad mouth on this generation to end.

    So now the question arises, are we ready to take this burden from the future generation blaming us for the mess or are we going to do something about it. Are we going to leave the crumbs for the kids or are we going to leave them with something good.