Allhumdolillah! I am at a much better place since my last post with series of lab tests, utlrasounds, a mammogram and some other really scary tests, and a gut wrenching anxiety of results. I am doing well thankfully everything was clear except low iron levels with vitamin d3 deficiency. These deficiencies are now on their way to recovery. It is worth noting that I have been struggling with intense brain and physical fatigue since 2019 but not a single doctor was able to identify my problem. Once somebody is diagnosed with depression or anxiety then every health issue they complain about is looked from the psychological lenses. Nobody asked me to check iron, vitamin b12 or vitamin d3 deficiencies even my mum who is a dermatologist always assured me that I am fine and this weakness is just a phase. It was a phase alright, it engulfed almost 8 years of my life pushed back my career and research ambitions. This is not the case alone with me but there are many people who silentl...
This
was not at all how I wanted to start my first post of 2018 but regrettably
traumas and painful events have become norm of the day. Once again a seven year
old child has been brutally murdered and molested in Kasur, Pakistan. This news
had its predecessor few years ago when hundreds of children were molested and
their families were blackmailed. Everyone on social media is rightfully
protesting to arrest the criminal(s) behind this heinous offence.
I don’t
think it is a random secluded crime that just happened. Whatever we are seeing
today in the form of this news is just the tip of an iceberg, an effect of
something that has a profound grave cause lurking in the darkness.
The
society we proudly present as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has nothing left
in it which is either Islamic or republican. We are a society with a torn moral
fibre. These kinds of unfortunate events are the direct reflection of not
merely state failure, but the failure of humanity.
This is
what happens to a country where corruption and lawlessness prevail. Some might
argue that the man who assaulted and cruelly threw a child’s body in the trash
could be psychotic. I don’t know what his mental state was but, what I know
for sure that he had no fear. He and many paedophiles are fully aware that no
one will apprehend him. They walk freely because they know that no one in power
really cares, no one is bothered to arrest psychos or rapists.
What I
firmly believe that if there is a strong grip of law and people in higher
echelons of power have determination to really do something about it, then and
only then we might be able to tell our children that they are safe.
On the
other hand, all of us have to thoroughly check our consciences and really ask
ourselves, how and where we as a nation have failed.
Sonya
Syed (Day 571)
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