This week we’ve been asking some pretty tough questions on our Instagram stories. Asking our followers to vote in polls with questions like, ‘Are you with the one you love’, ‘Do you think your parents know you’, and ‘Are you happy right now’. I loved checking to see how many people were engaging with the poll since so many were, and I was amazed to see how many people inboxed us wanting to talk about their lives. 58 percent said they were not with the one they loved, and 62 percent said they weren’t with who they wanted to be with because of family issues rather than societal norms. 59 percent felt their family knew them and 64 percent said they felt happy right now. You know what that shows me? Resilience. Hum aik muaashray mein rehte hain jahan it’s difficult to have a love marriage or date lekin hum phir bhi khush hain.
Urooj Ali The Current kay lifestyle desk ko manage karti hain and when I met Urooj, I was so impressed by how happy she was. And yes, being happy is an impressive thing. She was energetic, smart and so very young. She had been working at another online channel and wanted to join us to do reporting — but there is no challenge that Urooj has not taken up — and succeeded at. Not because she’s lucky, but because she is incredibly hardworking. Some of our best lifestyle stories are written by her, she goes out and gets people to talk to her for our social questions (like the ones asked in the polls above) called Mujhe Samajh Nahin Aata and let’s not forget her amazing exploration of historical sites called Secrets of Lahore.
At this sad, yet hopeful note, Karachi is going to have a wonderful sunny day today, Islamabad, Quetta and Peshawar are also sunny while Lahore will be cloudy. Oh and I almost forgot a story you guys might be interested in. Singer Asim Azhar has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board to stop ignoring him. (I promise I wasn’t. I just forgot to add him in).
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