Man-made Boundaries Negate Nature

“….Today, people everywhere face a convergence of economic, energy, social, and environmental crises on a scale and immediacy never before imagined. And people in many places can use capital, technology, and policy to stabilize the economy, tighten energy security, alleviate poverty, and improve environmental conditions. But reliable peace and prosperity will elude humankind unless we change our relations with each other and the environment.” Beebe B. Spencer, Gill Ian, 2009. A Nature State of Mind, In Stanford Social Innovation Review, 7: 4

Nature rules mankind, man is good at breaking them, good at wreaking havoc on wherever he goes. From earth where he lives, he can’t help not distinguishing through boundaries, creating geographical borders. Nature grants freedom to live, man good at devising lines, creating boundaries. Nature is equal for all, it does not differentiate mankind, boundaries distinguish and fathom out whoever has the right to live and die. Nature is kind, whereas man is selfish and greedy. Frontiers, territories, man is more concerned in taking control over where the communities need to be finished and end. In such communities, governed by chaos and capitalized by disruption, we often elude the bigger picture of a chaotic civilization. Those, entitled as the elites possess the privilege to select their own borders where they wish to live accordingly. They are the potential ‘buyers’ who can led even the entire world as per their choice to the negotiating table. For those who belong to the lower end of the stratum, or one may consider them the most ‘unprivileged’ are too, at the service of the charities donated by the elites, so that in most of the cases they don’t consider themselves ill-fated, as they are always at the doorstep of the elites, waiting to receive tokens of their will and contention, in the form of food and shelter. What remains! The unfortunate ones are those, who are a pain in the neck of the two discussed above. Neither they are the disadvantaged ones, nor are they able to maintain their ends meet. As such what they are left with is the option of migration. In a hope to a better future for their progeny, they elude their borders.

Becoming an alien in the European nations is common, so long as their remains misery of debt, food, shelter, insecurity, and political disruption. Among these blessings, there is only one responsible for bringing others to us. Debt is the one that is the root cause of depriving our generations for the right to live in our boundary. The onus goes to the civilizations, most developed for deciding our fate, our nation’s fate, and everything that lies in our boundary from earth to sky, from food to nuclear weapons, and from ships to airplanes.     

Alienation, not a big concern for most of us, and believe me, it works in numerous ways. Firstly, it makes our generations proud for whenever they are recalled as ‘foreigners’, it makes them more ’prestigious’ to be named as ‘American’, ’British’, or whatsoever citizenship they have than to be named as ‘Pakistani’. Secondly, most of us, dying to get foreign citizenship are ready to stake their lives and culture, for getting to recognize as ‘aliens’ abroad. Most important, they have the choice to getaway this ‘border’ whenever they sense a political turmoil. Above all the three factors is the disappointment, one feels on rejection of granting a citizenship after years of hard work. The surprising fact that counts is that how man made boundaries negate nature, how most of us carrying a desire to live abroad with a system whenever gets rejected by the foreign incumbents, seeks justification and know how’s of rejection, not to be rejected again.

This goes on and on. Brain drain sustains, and prevails. Even under the allegations when it comes to higher education, better employment options, or when one is suspected dubiously under terrorism. What we are left with are solely boundaries, boundaries that seek human beings to live and bring change.