REFLECTIONS OF KARIMA ULLAH.
KARIMA'S WHOLE FAMILY HAD PLENTY OF GOD GIVEN GIFTS.
1: GREAT CHARACTER
2; GREAT TALENT
3: GOOD LOOKS
4: CULTURAL INTERESTS
5: LOVE OF LIFE
6: GREAT EDUCATION
THE TRAGEDY WAS THAT WE HAD NO IDEA OF SOME OF OUR INCREDIBLE GIFTS.
AND SOME OF THOSE BRILLIANT ATTRIBUTES WE WASTED BECAUSE WE HAD NO IDEA
THAT THOSE WERE OUR AMAZING ASSETS.
AS WE MOVED INTO FOREIGN LANDS, WE WERE PUT INTO A GROUP, "MINORITY."
THE WORD, "MINORITY" LITERALLY MEANS SECOND TO THE MAJORITY, LESS THAN
MAJORITY, DEFECIENT IN CERTAIN ABILITIES, CAN'T POSSIBLY ACHIEVE WHAT
MAJORITY ACHIEVES. NOT PART OF THE POPULAR GROUP. CAN'T MOVE FORWARD
WITH EASE AND SPEED. CERTAIN, PRIVALEDGES WON'T BE ACCESSIBLE TO THEM AS
THEY ARE FOR THE POPULAR GROUP CALLED MAJORITY.
IF ANY ONE FOLLOWS THE MAJORITY TRADITIONS, THEIR BELIEF, THEIR LINE OF
POLITICS,
THEY, MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET SOME CRUMBS THROWN AT THEM AND SINCE THEY
WOULD BE GIVEN SOME CRUMBS, THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE THANKFUL AND BE
OBLIGED TO
THEM FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVESAND, IF THEY ARE STILL OBEDIENT,
ONCE IN A WHILE,
THE POWERFUL MAJORITY WOULD STILL THROW A BONE AT THEM TO MAKE THE
DOGS HAPPY. WE WHO WERE FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD DIDN'T REALLY
UNDERSTAND
HOW THE MJORITY V/S MINORITY SYSTEM WORKS WE KEPT BEING POLITE WHICH WAS
THE MAIN INGRIDENT ABOUT OUR CHARCTER.
NOW LET'S ELABORATE ON THIS GREAT QUALITY CALLED, CHARACTER.
WE, THE WHOLE FAMILY WAS EXTREMELY POLITEBECUSE OF OUR CHARACTER. WHICH
HAD
GRACE, HUMBLENESS, KINDNESS, GENEROSITY, EMPATHY, SENSITIVITY FOR OTHERS,
FEAR OF THE DIVINE POWER, LOVE OF FAMILYAND GREAT SOCIAL ABILITY.
SINCE OUR CHARACTER WAS SOLID, WE PERHAPS UN-KNOWINGLY SOUGHT PEOPLE
WHO WERE A
BIT LIKE US BUT HAD DIFFICULTY FINDING THEM. I AM SURE THERE WERE PEOPLE OF
GREAT CHARACTER IN THE LANDS WHERE WE SETTLLED BUT WE COULDN'T FIND
THEM BECAUSE WE WERE SEEKING PEOPLE EXACTLY LIKE OURSELVES, HUMBLE AND
KIND AND GIVING AND LOVING...
BUT PEOPLE IN THE SO CALLED FREE WORLD WERE REALLY FREE. MOST OF THEM
WERE TOTALLY FREE OF BEUING HUMBLE...TO THEM BEING HUMBLE MEANT ,
"VICTIMHOOD." AND THE WORD VICTIM IS A TOXIC WORD, AT LEAST IN OUR NEW
ADOPTED CULTURE WHERE PEOPLE PRACTICED THEIR CULTURE FULLY ND WE TRIED
TO BE PART OF THE
NEW CULTURE AND STILL FOLLOWING THE REMAINS OF OUR CULTURE FROM THE
PAST BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK. WHEN WE WERE IN OUR PAST AND STILL BEING IN OUR
PRESENT WE ENCOUNTERED FOG WHICH ENVELOPED US LIKE A HUGE CLOUD, DARK,
GREY ND WET CLOUD. WE COULDN'T SEE CLEARLY, SO WE WOULD SWITCH FROM THE
CONFUSION AND GO DANCING
AND IN MANY PLACES WE WEREN'T ALLOWED...WHY? WE WOULD ASK OURSELVES,
WITHOUT HAVING ANY ANSWERS...SINCE WE WERE VERY SOCIAL, WE WANTED TO
HAVE
FRIENDS TO CONVERSE WITH.
BACK HOME WE WERE CONSIDERED,
"CONVERSATIONALISTS." WE STILL THOUGH THAT WE WERE WITTY, FULL OF HUMOR
AND STILL, CONVERSATIONALISTS." YES, WE DID AND TO OUR SURPRISE WE DIDN'T
HAVE
PEOPLE OF GREAT CALIBER TO CONVERSE WITH. SINCE WE WERE HIGHLY EDUCATED,
WE
WERE NOT AMONGST A GROUP OF EDUCATED PEOPLE. WE WERE CONSIDERED
ORDINARY, YES,
THAT'S OK TO BE ORDINARY BUT WE COULDN'T CONVERSE WITH THE STRUGGLING
LABOUR CLASS, HAVING NO DISLIKE ABOUT THEM BUT WE WERE NEVER CONSIDERED
ORDINARY BACK HOME, THUS PEOPLE OF NO IMPORTANCE. BACK HOME EDUCATION
WAS AN INCREDIBLE ASSET AND WE
WERE MORE THAN EDUCATED. WE WERE HIGHLY WELL READ ND WELL AWARE OF THE
VALUE OF EDUCATION. BUT HERE IN FOREIGN LANDS SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST WAS
ESSENTIAL. AND POOR DECENT FOLKS WERE DOING MANUEL LBOUR ND HIGHLY
PROFESIONAL CLAN WAS NOT IN DOWN TRODEN DOWNTOWN., THEY WERE WITHE THE
POLITICIANS AND ROYALS MINGLE WITH MILLIONAIRES SHARING THEIR PRIVATE
PLANES AND YOUNG LADIES,
AND YACHTS,.
LOTS OF MONEY AND STATUS WAS ESSENTIAL HERE TO HAVE
SOPHISTICATED CONVERSATIONS. BUT WE ARE HIGHLY EDUCATED AND
SOPHISTICATED? WE CAN HAVE CONVERSATION WITH THE ONES ON CNN? HOW COME
WE ARE NOT INVITED? WE How are you?VE GREAT KNOWLEDGE, OPINIONS AND SKILL
OF BEING CONSULTANTS OF ALL KINDS.
WE WERE TOTALLY CONFUSED ABOUT OUR DOWNTRODDEN SITUATION.WE WOULD
THINK...WHY NO ONE IS PAYING ATTENTION?
WE WERE SO NAIVE AND SO NICE, SO POLITE AND SO DOWN TO EARTH WITHOUT
KNOWING THAT THOSE GOOD VALUES OUR PARENTS TAUGHT US WERE NOT GOOD
THINGS TO BE PROUD OF, HOW MANY MILLIONS DO YOU HAVE? WHICH PARTY DO YOU
BELONG TO? DO YOU FOLLOW THE ARTY LINE? DO YOU REALLY KISS ASS?
BUT WHY SHOULD WE KISS ASS? WE ARE HIGHLY EDUCATED AND WE SHOULD BE
RESPECTED FOR THAT. NOT HERE, WHERE IS YOUR MANIPULATING ASSET?WHERE IS
YOUR CUNNING?
WHERE IS YOUR CRIMINAL AND SMART INSTINCT WHERE YOU CAN MAKE TONS OF MNEY BY CUTTING CORNERS. YOUR MERIT, EDUCATION? GIVE ME A BREAK...
BUT ACTUALLY THE FAULT WAS ALL OURS. WE HAD FORGIOTTEN COMPLETELY THAT GOD ALMIGHTY HAD ENDOWED US WITH INCREDIBLE MIND AND TALENT. WE COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT AND BOUGHT THE FALSE AND UPWARDLY MOBILE STORY OF SUCCESS WHICH COMES WITH CONNECTIONS OF OTHER UPWARDLY MOBILE RUTHLESS GROUPS. BUT WE WERE NOT RUTHLESS...AND COULD NEVER BE...
THAT WAS OK, THAT WAS AGREEABE TO US, OUR CHARACTER. WE WWERE VERY PROUD OF OUR NON-CRIMINAL, NON-OFFENSIVE, NON THREATENING, NON-AGGRESSIVE, HUMBLE, POLITE, KIND, GENEROUS, TRUSTING CHARACTER AND THAT VERY CHARACTER WHICH WE WERE SO PROUD OF, WHICH WAS GRILLED IN OUR BONES BY OUR PARENTS AND ANCESTORS, WE COULD NEVER CHANGE THAT AND WE DIDN'T WANT IT FIR A SECOND. KARIMA ULLAH WOULD NEVER FORGET WHEN AT A VERY YOUNG AGE
HER FATHER TOLD HER AND HER YOUNG BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT, "YOUR GOOD CHARACTER IS THE ONLY THING YOU WILL TAKE WITH YOU WHEN YOU DIE AND GOOD PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WILL ONLY REMEBER YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR CHARACTER.
BUT THE SADDEST THING KARIMA ULLAH AND THE REST OF HER SIBLINGS NO MATTER WHERE THEY SETTLLED WOULD NEVER FORGIVE THEMSELVES FOR NEVER REMEBERING, ALWAYS FRGETTING THAT GOD GAVE THEM INCREDIBLE TALENT, TALENT WRTH OF ALL THE GOLD, TALENT WORTH OF ALL THE PEARLS AND DIAMONDS,
TALENT WORTH OF ALL THE PRIVATE PLANES AND BOATS AND BOASTS...THEY FORGOT
THAT...WHEN THEY WERE BEING DENEGRATED IN FOREIGN LANDS AS INFEREIOR
PEOPLE, AS MINORITY...THEY FORGOT THAT THEY HAD TALENT...AMZING TALENT,
AMAZING WIT. AMZING HUMOR, AMAZING ABILITY TO GET AHEAD, FAR, FAR AHEAD,
AHEAD THAN ANY GOD DAMN PERSON OF FORTUNES ACQUIRED BY LOOT...
THEY DIDN'T REMEBER, NOT AT ALL, AS IF THEY LST THEIR MEMORY COMPLETELY AND
JUST GAVE UP AND STAYED COMPLETELY ISOLATED, SORROWFUL, REGRETTING THEIR
SAD MOVE TO THE FOREIGHN LANDS AS LESS THAN OTHERS, AS PART OF A GROUP
WITHOUT EVER ACTIVELY EVER JOINING THAT GROUP CALLED, "MINORITY." THEY
NEVER JOINED THAT GROUP, THEY NEVER PAID ANY FEE TO JOIN THAT GROUP. THEY
WERE FORCEFULLY ADDED TO THAT GROUP, NO CONSENT NECESSARY.
KARIMA ULLAH ALWAYS HATED THE WORD, "MINORITY."
