The pursuit of 'Kursi'

As a Pakistani I was well aware of value and functions of kursi , the pursuit of authority and “struggle” people do for it. However, what I did not know was the ultimate reality of attaining this authority.

The Thappa of insecurity!

The culture of ‘good for nothing’ kursi is increasing day by day in Pakistan. The ringmaster of circus delegate powers, assign authorities to people and make them into puppets, keeping the strings in hand. As soon as puppets sit on their ‘hard-earned kursi, the show begins!

“Dekhen ji permission dena to koi masla ni hai lekin agar koi issue hoa to phir humare pas na ayen”

Try following a bureaucratic process in any government institute of your country to serve them in return, and you will be bestowed by a free entry of puppet show with a front more clear view of it. You will come to know the height of insecurity of these officials who are leading education in Pakistan.
No one is ready to make due use of their power and authority to support something good, to save the education system and to initiate sanity to their rottening learning systems.
They have been thrust upon by with power but what they have been deprived off is their “individual will” to respond.
What is being murdered in them is their conscience. What they have been made learn of is ‘never to use your authority when it’s needed for right thing’.  They are ready to pay the price of whole upcoming  ignorant and hopeless generation but they would not for the sake for their own country, signature on a petty document that proposes to serve their systems just because they think it’s putting their jobs at stake! Because they have such a height of fear from that petty sheet of paper, that it makes them worry if their kids be deprived of bread.
What they will never think about is of those dozen beggars that will be born if the future of their education is ignored.
What they will never understand is the value of power they have, that can input so much good, initiate betterment plans and give a bunch of youth a sense of direction in present circumstances.
You ask a street boy coming back from school hanging a big bulging bag from his shoulder that why is he getting education for, and he’ll say “bara officer banun ga kursi pe bethun ga”. Now jump into future after 20 years, he’ll be successfully sitting there to save the country’s education and wailing about the same issues and stamping his insecurity as always been. So why in the first place striving for a position that can’t serve the purpose, why attaining a power when its actually making you incapable of supporting the right thing ?
We have a set of beautifully groomed puppets on our education system’s head who have been assigned with due authority that only operates with strings in someone else’s hands.
When will they come to realize that the position they have been striving for their entire life is actually aimed at using it for someone’s sake and even to save your own sanity. No! It is not a pile of sawab(blessings) that would go with you in your coffins it is actually to be used to support something good!

The success of attaining power does not lay in achieving it only but to use this power when one needs to save a system.

Parker J. Palmer rightly says it: “Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts. When teachers depend on the coercive powers of law or technique, they have no authority at all."

Between struggle and self; A spiritual guide!

"The entire past is not valuable enough for the sake of which one moment of creative future should be sacrificed."

October 1958

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