I cannot afford to live in Pakistan unless I am equally rich as Zardari is. I can longer afford to pay for my food, I can no longer afford to buy petrol for my motorcycle, I cannot afford to pay for heating my food. I cannot afford to light up the single light bulb in my house. I keep it off any way. I am told there is no electricity but I no longer know about that I have kept my light bulb off. I am told the light bulb I occasionally switch just to see where I am going for finding something is going cost twice as much to switch on, whenever I do. Once or twice people from the KESC came warned I should stop stealing electricity. I told them I do not what they are talking about. They told my meter reading is too low and I am possibly stealing electricity. They said will come to keep an eye on me.
I have forgotten what electricity is. When my friends and neighbours tell it will cost me twice as much I am surprised. How it that something I am not using cost me twice as much? I do not what is going in the world because I have sold my TV and stop subscribing to the newspaper. I have stopped sending my kids too school I simply cannot afford to send them there, because the schools charge tuition fees and admission fees which I cannot pay for. So since two years my kids are out of school and staying at home.
My family have decided to get the first boat out of Pakistan and live anywhere in the world. Where I can get a job. Educate my children. Buy food. Buy a car if I can because I am not really that age where I should be riding on small motorcycle. Live in house not in hut which I started doing after I sold the two room small flat I was living in My biggest achievement in life was that I actually was able to buy a flat at that time I also had a job. I never had the money travel anywhere in Pakistan because travelling expenses were never within my reach.
As for the boat carrying me out of Pakistan. The person who promised me to take my family out of Pakistan he said he has booked me in the next container. I am so happy because I will be anywhere except for Pakistan.
People told me I would be risking life getting out of this country. Risking my life is nothing, when all hope to continue living in Pakistan is lost I simply do not care what happens to me or to my family.
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