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I was held at gunpoint today right outside the gate of where I live. I had had a long day working on flood hazard and poverty analysis. I came back home with my company& #39;s laptop, my small bag and a mobile phone that my husband gifted me for our wedding. All my work was on that
on that laptop. All of it. Complex analysis that comprises days of works. Who would have thought right? Why would I think that someone would hold a gun to my face for a mobile phone, my meagre money which I work exceptionally hard to make and a 250k company laptop which is amanat
That guy took whatever he could but I pleaded with him about the laptop to which he said, essentially, that he& #39;d fire the gun kill me. Right outside the gate of my husband& #39;s home.
You know what? I work very hard for the people of this country. I work very hard every single day. I lose sleep over my work because I know how important it is for good policy formation. I know how important it is to fix the injustice in our system through such research efforts
I lose my mind over these very people who would kill me for the very work contained in that laptop that will save all of us. All of us.
Staring at that gun, all I could think about was the laptop I was entrusted with, my friend& #39;s hijabless pictures in my phone, my husband& #39;s hard-earned money and love invested on that phone. That is all I could think about. Not me. Not for one second.
But I gave it away because, while all this was happening, it was my parents I was most worried about because I know that me getting hurt would have traumatized them beyond repair. So, you tell me, are any of you worth the work I have put in, the hours I have slaved away since
I was 7 years of age when I wanted to & #39;cure& #39; global warming? Is the government worth my energies that they let crimes like these be the norm when one fucking police vehicle patrols a whole damn Union Council?
How much the trauma from this snatching has set me back, I can& #39;t even explain how I feel. I just feel very detached from everything. I feel like my work is worthless. I feel like nothing I do can fix this government or make our people bear minimum decent.
