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Cake day: February 12th, 2026

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  • I’m reading “The Eyewitness” by Muhammad Saeed Mehdi. It’s a self biography by a Pakistani civil servant since the 1950s. I’m a Pakistani American who recently visited Pakistan for the first time in 20+ years. I bought the book while I was over there.

    I’m woefully ignorant of the history of Pakistan despite my parents complaining about Pakistani politics my entire life. I will say that book is amateurishly written, it’s clearly written by someone my grandfather’s age who didn’t hire a professional writer to help with this book. It is still fascinating because it’s like listening to my grandfather tell a story about characters I’ve heard about my whole life. It’s about events my parents and grandparents lived through. Its giving my a different perspective on the lives my parents led before moving to the US.








  • Yeah but those values develop in response to a world that doesn’t value them. So most people realize that the world doesn’t care about them, so they come to the conclusion that they shouldn’t care about other people. It’s actually not unreasonable.

    It takes a real mature person to understand that those behaviors are the result of the system and to think that the system needs changing.

    What I’m saying is I think it’s possible for these people to be redeemed. We have to give of ourselves more than we’ll get back to teach the world that there are other ways of being that aren’t selfish. And everyone has to be included in that future version of the world.