Three Mindsets, One Destiny - Visualizing Pakistan's Future

 

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Today, Pakistanis are divided between three distinct mindsets, and mark my words, two of them are actively writing their own destinies.

1) The Negative Mindset:

This group believes in—and only sees—the doom of our country. To support this theory, they seize upon every negative sign they can find, even using theology to prove that we are heading for the most disgraceful and horrible end possible. They believe that success and prosperity can only come from what they consider to be the right way, and no other. They claim to respect difference of opinion, but in reality, they have no space for it. They will lash out with their tongues, and if they had the power, they would use their hands as well. Yet, they remain blind to what their own thinking has made of them. They also believe that the whole country shares their views and that they are the majority.

These people will surely achieve what their minds have conceived and believed—not for the whole country, but for themselves. The whole country, however, will get what the majority has conceived and believed.

2) The Positive Mindset:

This group carefully observes every positive signal before properly analyzing the negative. They take the past as a lesson, not as a roadmap to doom. They are realistic and know that nothing in this life can be perfect; things will happen against their will, but as long as the positive remains ahead of the negative, everything will be fine. To support their claims about the future, they use the history of other nations—their rises and falls—and they use theology to prove that God is merciful. They believe this nation will prosper, perhaps not under the leadership of our choice, but under the choice of God, according to the dominant mindset of the nation, as stated in the Holy Quran. These people are not rigid about how things should be done; they keep an open mind, ready to improve or change their views based on new information and awareness. They also believe in difference of opinion, and when faced with opposing views, it does not turn them violent. Instead, it saddens them. They will either leave the conversation or try to make the other person understand through logic, rather than personal philosophy or hearsay. They do not believe their views are universally shared, and they understand that different people have different opinions.

These people will surely achieve what their minds have conceived and believed—not for the whole country, but for themselves. The whole country, however, will get what the majority has conceived and believed.

3) The Neutral Mindset:

These are the pawns in the game. They have no real say; they simply go with the flow. For five years, they will chant for one political party, and when that party comes to power, they will spend the next five years chanting against it. Their only sources of knowledge are the media and their social circles, and wherever those lead, they follow. They say positive things when they are with positive people and negative things when they are with negative people. They never truly form their own opinions, so they will get whatever the majority mindset has conceived and believed. If they live mostly with negative people, they will get negative results; if they are mostly with positive people, they will get positive results. But these people are like children—they have not yet fully developed. At some point in life, they will likely adopt one fixed mindset, either negative or positive. But as it is written in the Quran, "most people in the world are ignorant," so such neutral people will mostly become negative by default. To become positive, they will have to actively work towards positivity.

The amazing fact is that all three of these mindsets claim to be patriotic, even though one mindset predicts the destruction of the very land they claim to be loyal to.

Now tell me, what type of mindset do you have?