Im really surprised that all of you are acting like this is something that rarely happens, that is the infamous arranged marriage/bride running away story, which is terribly hard for all the parties involved and not at all funny. Besides, none of us really knows the truth behind her motives.Arranged/pressured marriages are common in Paki culture, and divorce is not an answer to a bad marriage, it really is till death do us apart.
This loving-crying family have demonstrated on air the great power of emotionally black-mailing. so glad she is okay but, clearly, there's more to the story than meets the eye.
I am someone who has seen stuff like this happen(minus the media) to young girls, and frankly i think arranged/forced marriages NEED media attention b/c they ARE horrible, and maybe the media could help them somehow.
how is running away a solution to any problem? Eventually she would have had to come back to face the music and she was certainly in no hurry to do so. even after 5 whole days of creating utter havoc and wasting resources, time and money of so many agencies and voluteeers involved, it was the authorities who tracked her down, she did not end the drama herself.
^i agree! the whole scenario was pretty bad on her part, she should have informed the authorities to stop the search asap. but teenagers are not the smartest people around, they don't know how to properly get help. we don't even know the whole story. after all, it was her family all over the media.
Her little stunt was stupid and immature but at the same time it is very emotinally immature of you girls to let a random story effect you to a degree that you are losing sleep and doing special prayers.If you are getting so jazbatti over a stranger's case I can only imagin how you would deal with dilemmas in your personal lives. No wonder we have all sort of domestic drama threads in life and relationship.
I agree with bebo here.
I was surprised as well reading that people cried 'alot' for her and spend a great time thinking of this girl.
Out of curiousity, those who did this: do you always behave like this when someone goes missing?
the whole scenario was pretty bad on her part, she should have informed the authorities to stop the search asap. but teenagers are not the smartest people around, they don't know how to properly get help. we don't even know the whole story. after all, it was her family all over the media.
I was surprised as well reading that people cried 'alot' for her and spend a great time thinking of this girl.
Out of curiousity, those who did this: do you always behave like this when someone goes missing?
No, but we dont always come to know of people who go missing every day either. Here's a girl from our community....we kind of relate more, and you know, we have daughters of our own, so it kinda hurts to know what a parent could be feeling if their child is missing, so we take a little time to say a prayer for them and for the safety of that missing kido so she returns to her family safely.
Now if I didn't think aout this at all and say umm yeah, another missing girl...I think that would be emotionally immature...insensitive. :)
Im really surprised that all of you are acting like this is something that rarely happens, that is the infamous arranged marriage/bride running away story, which is terribly hard for all the parties involved and not at all funny. Besides, none of us really knows the truth behind her motives.Arranged/pressured marriages are common in Paki culture, and divorce is not an answer to a bad marriage, it really is till death do us apart.
This loving-crying family have demonstrated on air the great power of emotionally black-mailing. so glad she is okay but, clearly, there's more to the story than meets the eye.
I am someone who has seen stuff like this happen(minus the media) to young girls, and frankly i think arranged/forced marriages NEED media attention b/c they ARE horrible, and maybe the media could help them somehow.
p.s sorry for the run-on sentences.
There's a bigggggggggg diffence between arranged marriages and forced marriages. Let's first identify and establish what is what.
Second, aren't there better ways of getting media attention? How mAny educated girls of today...even take a sample from this forum itself...have done anything other than looking out for themselves, to educate their community or raise awareness to stop our social evils? How many of us are actually involved in social reform programs, the masjids or what have you..? Media cannot help. They thrive on stuff like this. Only we as a community can bring about the change.
