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Temperature and time

The temperatures here, in twin cities, have been chillingly below zero for most part of the weekend. It is, therefore, little wonder that even the seasoned residents of the area have given up to cold and restricted their activities. I can't really tell the difference since this is only my second weekend here; but so it seems that things have unexpectedly cooled down here.
The same can't be said for back in country where it is that unfortunate tie of the year when even the chill in the air can't put restraint on the way we think and act. Muharram is slipping past, thus far comparatively peacefully, amid raised fears of suicide bombings and extremist backlash. There is a foiled attempt to mix cyanide in the water in Karachi and there are 12 Pakistanis that have been caught in Spain possibly connected to a terror plot.
We, the Pakistanis, are now becoming used to spending our lives day by day, with each day that passes on without a calamity or two seen as a blessing that we earned. But begin the dawn of the next the fear and the terror sets in, back in full flow and flush. I wonder how this will shape the psychology of the nation. I sure hope we do not become another Afghanistan in this respect. I wonder how long can we survive. But then again human beings are the resistant lot.


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