All Aboard the 2011 Express

It’s that time of the year once again when we amazingly stupid hopefuls have taken our first steps into a so called 'New Year'. With dreams decorating our eyes, heart filled with hopes of doing and achieving something better, brain surrounded by different ideas, we enter another year which from the looks of it will not be any different from the previous one. Case in point, the hike in petroleum prices, it’s like the government is sending us greetings by saying "We Wish you a Sucky Christmas and a Crappy New Year".  So following in the footsteps of our 360 degrees hated government, let me be amongst the first ones to ruin your new year by point out the fact that if the Mayans did somehow managed to accurately calculate the expiry date of this planet than, we all have only one more year to live. How's that for a New Year greeting?

Let’s not kid ourselves, what is so new about this year besides the calendar and the diary manufacturers getting a chance to make some money? Abso-freaking-lutely nothing. We as people have no right to wish each other glad tidings for the New Year or any year, the reason being our absolute concrete commitment to not change. We don't want to change the way we live, the way we lead our lives, our standard of living, the way we manipulate religion and religious feelings, or the people supposedly responsible for governing us. If we don't give a rat's ass about changing all that than what good will changing the digits of a year do for us? We wear sun glasses to avoid the sunlight from hitting our eyes and in this case it seems like we all are wearing reality glasses, the insides of which are printed with a statuary message, “Warning, change is injurious to heath, ministry of change resistance/same old, Government of Pakistan.

Since it’s a universal tradition, I too will follow it but with a sincere twist by wishing everyone a very happy new year filled with happiness and health, glow, glee and greatness, wealth and wisdom, and everything good that's achievable and attainable, from the bottom of my heart. If you wish to, you can wish the same for me too.