Bricks of a Lane

There are two boxes in life of every person. One is created by him/her-self and other by the society. Some live in both boxes throughout their lives while others break both and still some are able to break one but not the other. The foremost is the most common while latest is the rare one, and the middle one is something I won’t talk

about.

Not every aspect of society is the worst face but few practices imprison us into a box made of bricks that are hard to break. Marriage by force is one of them. By nature human beings are created with a sense of liking someone and desire to get married. If this desire takes place of enforcement, it creates a lane that constantly adds to the bricks of  tiredness, suffocation and uneasiness in ones life.

Realizing the issue of forced marriages was brought into context through the “MovieLog” monthly film screening organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation in Islamabad. Being one of the organizers, I sensed the way the dialogue about forced marriages created a magic in the air. Earlier I had mindset that without providing any solution, talking about an issue is worthless. But now, I feel that awareness is the first step towards any solution. It is the awareness that breeds an inner sense of differentiating right from wrong and if takes a hype, it can result in change! Even nature evolves by first letting creatures know that only “survival of the fittest” is possible and if they are not fit they can’t breathe anymore similarly if human was not aware of his needs for electricity, the world would seem to be very different than today!

The reaction in the form of dialogue followed by the movie session made me remember of Mr. Friedrich Ebert who ones said that:

“Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.”