A long overdue part was completed today. Some of the work from my visit to Pakistan in 2004 was finally added to the Pakistan gallery today. Click here to view the gallery.
Pakistan was an unexpected experience. Unexpected in a way that moved my heart. Humanity is a strange phenomenon in the sense that it blows your pre conceived mindset. Each step into away from the cities I found elements of humanity that blew my mind. Their beliefs contradicted mine yet the commonality of feelings as humans seem to be highlighted at each step. I am an asian a hardcore asian at its worst. I live in a confused community yet the inherent pulses emerge when least expected.
We walk into a new country with a box on our heads full of our beliefs, our values. The box has inner compartments which highlights the common interest, common feelings. Common feelings to be free, to be a human above all. Circumstances are the only differentiating elements that separates us all.
During my visit over a post dinner conversation, I was blessed to be in the company of several people to have crossed paths with. We were discussing the situation of the world as any of you would do when the conversation drifts away from the weather. I was dumbfounded when I was asked the question "How do you measure development in a country?". Is it by GDP? per capita income? or any other ratio the macro and micro economists invent? Or is it a different indicator from all above?
How about counting the smiles and a friendliness indicator? Some of the most "developed" countries would fail miserably at this.
None of this may make sense and it is not intended to...
Hope you enjoyed the pictures. These were from my experience of an interesting and friendly bunch of human beings in this round blue planet.
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