It is 2050. On a cold winter night I sat watching the television amazed at the technological and scientific advancement the world had made. Now 114 years old, I am part of the living past. I have travelled a long way from a stage when many parts of Rawalpindi were without the facility of electricity. When a telephone call outside Pakistan took 24 hours to mature, when people did not have television to watch, when fewer cars moved on the road, when coal was used for heating and wood for cooking, when winters were colder and summers milder, when more time was at one's disposal but there was less to do and, indeed, when ignorance was truly a bliss. Today is not the same, we live in different times, in the age of touch buttons and remotes. Our thinking and behaviour is programmed and facilitated. Fashion fascinates our lives and glamour has made it expensive. Relationships show no enthusiasm and warmth, Intellectually we are lonely people unable to differentiate between conformity and agreement, affinity and affection and between desire and ambition.
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