The ‘LIVING’ Nation

Forwarding text messages between your friends and family is very common these days, be it teenagers or elderly people, everyone seems to be indulged in this activity. A few days back I received a text message from one of my friends about Pakistan, the message stated some very sentimental statements that can easily provoke the patriotic feelings of any emotional individual and of course the last line of the message read ‘Please forward this message as much as you can and if you receive this message back then it proves that we are a strong nation and the spirit of nationhood still lies in us’. I did not noticed that sms much and forgot it after deleting it from the inbox but after a few days I again got that message and suddenly I thought that though I havn’t forwarded this message to anyone but still I have received it back, does this mean that we are a very very strong nation and no one can destroy the bonds of nationhood that are nurturing in our souls. But then, on the same day when I had that ultra patriotic sms in my inbox I also heard about threats of terrorist attacks to schools, bomb blasts in International Islamic University and bombs successfully disposed off somewhere in Peshawar, hearing all this is really sad and I think this is high time when all the citizens of Pakistan should get united to stand against these suicide attacks and prove pragmatically that we are a LIVING nation.