#HearNoEvilSeeNoEvilSpeakNoEvil

Probably why it went down as 141 vs 6 and the loss incurred fails to be quantified.
Probably why putting a number on it and confining the damage is a seemingly convenient assessment of violence.
Probably why lump-summing it as 'our' loss suffices yet fails to resonate as strongly as a consciously felt 'my loss' would.

Do we pray to make it through, dress it in our favorite national garb of 'zinda hai nation' or pray that we never get past it, never put it behind us, never forget?
Do we let it go down in history, accompany other conveniently forgotten 'national tragedies' or recognize it as something perpetual which can only be understood once we realize that it is not limited to an event, place, community or an individual..

probably does not make sense.
-Zainab Qazi

I am re-posting a conversation post Army public school attack in Peshawar between my friend and I. Today marks its 3rd month anniversary and a chance to reminiscence. Additionally, there was an attack on 2 churches in Lahore yesterday, so let's begin a discussion from the basics, what does this violence mean to us and how does it impact our lives.

A: do we even want to make a conscious effort of relating to it?i don't believe so.people have been so desensitized and lost the basic human emotions like empathy that these incidents remain incidents.they were 141 kids but they weren't your kids right.and even if it isn't mere humanity, the question is how are you ridding the society of an ideology and intolerance that is so well ingrained within the society, something that the society has been harboring on and passing to the next generation.who do you blame really?this act of inhumanity will repeat itself because we did not and probably will not ever be able to really call it "our loss" and truly mean it.

Z: I don't think we do. collective condemnation but how does it extrapolate on to your life, your actions etc. as an individual? knowing that if something ahs the ability to shock you even when its beyond your homestead, what do you carry from it except the shock. condemnation se aagay kya? condemn kiya k this was an intolerant, inhumane act but we barely bothered to reflect on how tolerant we are as individuals. hum mein kitnee insaniyat hai? ye tou kuch b ni hua. kuch b na hua.

A: exactly.what will condemning do?what will you crying for a couple of days do?you fail to realize that you're so flawed as an individual and unless that is fixed, this will keep on repeating and the only time you will be forced to remember it will be when the news flashes a gazillion times telling you a year passed when this horrendous incident happened.horrific.we all need to take a moment and reflect upon us for a minute.learn something instead of being remorseful.