F E AT U R E
What if Brangelina were a
Pakistani couple?
J
ust heard the horrendous news that you two have
decided to split up. I would really like to sympathise
with you but got tied up with pulling in all my winning bets that your marriage wouldn’t last even this long.
Hate to say it, but it would have been better if you two
hadn’t gotten married at all. I mean, you lasted longer
without marriage and while rounding up six kids. So really can’t figure out why you had to take the hassle of
getting married in the first place.Don’t take this personally, but the western society at large seems to have an
obsession to get divorced if they are married. So the
best way to avoid this compulsive behaviour is not to get
married in the first place, as demonstrated by your example. Since everyone is jumping on the melodramatic
bandwagon provided by the news of your splitting up,
there was hardly any reason why I shouldn’t be putting
in my two cents either.So I am.I would be a hypocrite if
I didn’t admit that even the people in my own country
are catching up to the trend. Since they have the tendency to follow all the trends of the west, they haven’t
left the relationship department unaltered either. Regret-
fully, dating is now as widespread here as polio used
to be. So is the rebellion of girls and boys against the
desires of the family to get married to whomever they
wish.However, even after all this fuss and feathers and
hullaballoo, the result in 80% of the cases in Pakistan is
a divorce. Yes, it is a sad situation but we have gotten,
as with other negative trends, quite comfortably inured
to it.Angelina, I understand that you and Brad are asking to be left alone through this ‘challenging’ time, but let
me assure you, that will not happen. So I wouldn’t count
on it if I were you. Thanks to tens of outlets on social
media, the human mind today thrives on sensationalism.
Whether it is Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or what-not,
everyone’s mind is ravenous for an instant new ‘bang’
for the senses every few seconds.
Um. Is it too late for us to pray for #Brangelina?
Is anyone else still upset over the #Brangelina split?
Y'all Madame Tussauds have split up their
#Brangelina waxworks :( pic.twitter.com/I3v3uMHoRD
— #AT (@andytelasai) September 21, 2016
Your divorce news is not only an instant bang but one
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