[Music]
[Applause]
assalamualaikum everyone I’m gonna start
off by telling you a story now I want
you guys to imagine yourself in that
story so the story begins of a couple of
friends maybe even three three to be
exact and they were just having fun
imagine yourselves as that child who was
having fun with his couple of friends
now you can imagine talking about
cricket you can imagine them talking
about their crush and you can imagine
the other two making fun of him because
he was talking about their crash so all
of these guys in their mid-twenties or
sorry in their early 20s were you know
trying to just have fun when suddenly
enters an elderly man a wise man this is
my interpretation of an elder man
something like candle something like
Hagrid now the problem with elder and
wise man is that whenever they come into
the room the conversation inevitably
turns really boring he spoils the fun
why because the conversation inevitably
turns to things like life death purpose
existence you know the boring stuff the
stuff we don’t want to talk about but we
know we have to talk about so these
three guys because he was an elder
indulge him in the conversation and
eventually the conversation went to the
credit path now as his elder man was
about to leave he you know he wanted to
have some fun of his own so he thought
why not
I threw a last jerker a curveball and he
asked them a simple question a question
which I want all of you guys to ask
yourselves as well what do you want to
do when you grow up now considering that
these three kids were roughly in their
early 20s it seems to be a real
illogical question it seems to be a real
a logical question for most of you here
because we’ve practically grown up and
considering if you are in your early 20s
that’s a really confusing age your
father might want you to get a job
because you’re about to graduate your
mother might want you to get married my
mother did she’s laughing right now so
you don’t want to get on the bandwagon
with your friends to go to a university
and you also want to change
but the thing is you’re also very lazy
and because of that you become confused
and in that confusion although this is a
really simple question you hesitate with
your response
now imagine these three kids giving
their responses it might be something
like the first one says I am a good cook
so why don’t I be a chef the other one
says that I know I can sell stuff I
dress nice I can do marketing or
advertising you can imagine the third
one to be some of a nerd the mathematics
economics physics types so he goes on
and says that let’s say I want to make
the economic policies of Pakistan after
hearing the responses the elder man
laughed because he knew he had him in
his place all of those in the place he
wanted to do and as he was exiting the
room he gave an alternate proposition he
says why not just grow up to be human
why not just be human it threw me off
this story throws me off every time I
sing look in your faces it throw you off
as well and you know the problem with
elderman is when they make an
intellectual slap across your face they
tend to leave the room so you revel in
the existence of crisis yourselves after
hearing the story practically I got into
an existential crisis myself so I
thought about this question a lot I
thought about the first time I was asked
the question what I wanted to be when I
grow up um I guess we would all agree
that we must have been asked a question
when we were in kindergarten in nursery
in prep and you know what the responses
were back then we instantly gave those
responses I want to be a doctor I want
to be an engineer I want to be a
policeman but you know we almost always
added an additional qualifier to the
statement we said we want to be a doctor
why because we want to help others we
want to be a policeman why because we
want to protect others we want to be a
teacher why because we want to teach
others in reality what our our dreams
and aspirations were were relative to
the benefit of others in reality what we
wanted to be when we grow up was
compassionate in reality what we wanted
to be when we grow up
was human becoming a doctor becoming an
engineer becoming a teacher which is the
mere process of it now as we grew up we
have been stripped away of our childlike
innocence I am NOT here to debate but
why let’s just say it’s the complexities
and harshness of life but I am here to
tell you about the result the result is
collectively as a society we keep
ourselves first and everybody as second
and what happens that is we become
stricken with the disease this society
becomes stricken with the disease and
that disease I say is lack of compassion
and my friends that lack of compassion
is true poverty now you may ask
moussah why poverty why is lack of
compassion poverty when it’s poverty
because we see poverty in a very juninho
lateral sense we see poverty as a lack
of food lack of shelter lack of clothing
but it’s also a lack of heart a lack of
soul a lack of purpose these are the two
intellectual sides of poverty but if we
boil them down isn’t it just lack of
compassion because when you aren’t
compassionate enough you don’t think of
the next person you take more than you
share and as a result you create a
hunger of needs for many but the hunger
of unending wants for yourself that is
the lack of compassion is true poverty
and that is my aim to fight this lack of
compassion my story starts three years
back as a sophomore at lumps me and my
two good friends is a friend Qasim we
weren’t so good friend such a good
friends back then I barely made it to
the border cycle as you can see so was
effort came to me and said that he
wanted to do something actually was F as
mom had been in raising and estarán in
her home for the last 25 years so he
could see a lot of hungry people coming
to the restaurant and not having enough
food but on the other flipside we as
part of the privileged class used to go
to a lot of restaurants a lot of parties
lot of catering events and we used to
waste a lot of food now that’s a great
conflict now when he told me the idea
that we should do something about it I
was immediately on board but the fact
was we didn’t know what to do
because it hasn’t been done before so we
called really confuse we researched into
it we research into the logistics the
mechanics of how we’re going to procure
food from one end and deliver it to the
other end and the process I realized it
had become more mechanical again
stripped of compassion stepped up the
humanity of it so in the frustration we
got onto Facebook and we did this we
went on to mspaint and wrote risk in the
spur of the moment and put it on
Facebook page we put our numbers on the
Facebook page and said that if anyone
has any excess food leftover just give
us a call overnight we went viral we had
2,000 to 3,000 likes and the next day we
had our phones buzzing so what we did
whenever a call came you bunked our
classes and we went from one corner of
the hall to another and what started as
a result was an incredible journey we
went to slums we went to meet different
people we went to meet different kids
and all of these kids and individuals
poor in compassion to the process all of
these children these children people
like these I realized that it’s all
about compassion children like these
volunteers like these our team began
interview and what started originally as
an effort which was volunteer based we
made it more sustainable we introduced
the risk Shah Pakistan’s first food food
saving vahik oh and afterwards we went
even more bigger even today I say that
risk is the result of the Compassion’s
of all of you people involved I claim
and I agree to this fact that I haven’t
put in as much effort in this venture as
you guys have and today after three
years I mentioned that eventually
started as three kids going on their own
cars collecting food is Pakistan’s first
social enterprise first social business
not just a charity a social business
catered towards the poor and we have
said of around 30,000 kgs of food
feeding 160,000 people from foods food
that otherwise have been gone to waste
and we have also channelized
a lot of philanthropy as a result but it
is you guys who kept me going on we
graduated man when you graduate there’s
a lot of problems especially when your
father and your mother and your peers
are going to pressurize you to do
different selves to you know explore
yourselves and that was the case with me
but what made us go on the first thing
is your compassion but the second thing
is the gravity of the problem the
condition in Pakistan is that the
gravity of the situation of food
security is really great one in two
Pakistanis is food insecure around 14
million children are malnourished but on
the flip side 40% of the food from farm
to fork goes to waste and on 1 billion
dollars goes into animal food based
charity that means there’s a lot of
resources to go around so the question
is if there are a lot of resources to go
around why is there hunger isn’t it this
lack of compassion isn’t it you just
taking more than you need I bet my life
on it yeah if you go to your homes and
open your fridges you must find
something that has expired if you open
your cabinets the situation will be the
same and what about the grain of rice
what about the grains of rice you
seemingly waste on the plate Oh like you
don’t realize that it’s not just the
simple grain of rice it’s all of the
resources that go into making that grain
of rice you show apathy and indifference
to the laborer to the farmer who toiled
the soul you show apathy and
indifference to God or nature whoever
you believe who blessed you with rain
you show apathy indifference to the
laborer to the transporter who procured
the grain of rice from the farm and went
to the market to your father who spent
his hard-earned living to get that for
you and most importantly you you show
apathy and indifference to your mother
who made this food with utmost
compassion and love when you waste the
grain of rice don’t you just rob them of
the compassion due to them don’t you
make them poor isn’t lack of compassion
poverty I guess it is
I think it is but what’s the result what
should we do how can we cure this well
the problem with hunger of wants is that
it can only be saturated to an extent to
completely eliminate it you just have to
let it go let it go how let it go by
embarking on a journey of return to be
that child where you put yourself
involved passions behind and put
compassion for others first you know in
the quest for our into an individuality
or uniqueness we are geared to strive
for our passion strive for ambitions but
the thing is we might find our ambitions
and the result is that many people are
lucky enough to find their ambitions but
we see a lot of people without purpose
as well we need scientists to think
better we need engineers to build by
there when it teaches to teach better
but none of that ambition none of that
expertise is of any use until it is
grounded in compassion remember the
story of the three kids they did just
that they realize their ambitions and
made them compassionate they realize
their compassionate ambition that is the
first step all of you need to realize
your compassionate a mission I am NOT a
wise man I’m just 23 years old
if the only thing I can give away to you
is guys the purpose of life is just this
find what you’re good at and do it for
others the first child remember he
wanted to be a chef that is a zephyr
he’s not your average poverty at-risk he
is because of his love of food he
procures food and distributes it to
people the other guy looking sharp as
always discussing he needs to strike a
Dean at any time so he does marketing he
wanted to be a marketer and he’s doing
that for risk the nerd flare was me I
was good at economics good at maths so
now I to Alleppey into element in
strategies as well as finance is a risk
so all of us realized or compassionate
ambitions but one more thing the story
doesn’t end here there is a second step
to the process as well a few weeks back
a lady came to my office so lady
came to my risk office so there’s a
tradition at a risk office that if you
come to the risk office we have to offer
your risk and you have to eat that risk
as well she wanted to share some food
visibly flustered she was visibly
foolish if she was really you know
tensed maybe this was some sort of a
release but she refused the food I
offered her when she was going away I
just complained to her a little bit just
joke that you came to my office and you
didn’t have food that’s like the number
of one SOP and she says she was visibly
offended at my statement and she says
bata don’t ever say that to me again
because I got something here more than
what you offer
I got risk for my room I got risk for my
soul and then I realized after realizing
my own compassionate emissions I have to
make other people realize this as well
that’s the second step help others
realize that compassionate emissions and
I’m thankful to these two idiots who
gave me the chance to get on the bike
with them and help me realize my
compassion in a mission so that’s just
the solution to the two-part problem of
lack of compassion now this lack of
compassion you can clear it by realizing
your own and helping other people
realize there’s and this order is really
important guys not three years back the
real trigger point for me for doing risk
was me and Qasim we’re going to a
restaurant we had some leftovers and
after restaurants you know we naturally
have to eat dessert so we went to local
ice cream shop and the waiter came to a
car door and I just gave the leftovers
to him and said okay please find someone
hungry and give this food to him the
waiter obliged five minutes later I’d
spend I peeked out of my window I saw
the same and better hiding the back of
Brioni under his shirt and going to the
adjacent building and eating it nibbling
down back of beyond it was my leftovers
man seeing him three of the waiters came
to him and started snatching the back of
beyond now just try to imagine the
justise fathom the irony that the same
person who is bringing you food is
hungry now as risk as a potential
economist I can design all the systems
and I promise I will design the systems
but no no economists no strategist no
scientists can design for this inherent
lack of compassion you have to do it on
your own this is the journeys you have
to make on your own so as I bid you guys
farewell I just need a take a promise
from you the promise is that it’s just
picture fighting against lack of
compassion realize your compassion
intermission and commit to that fight my
fight is in the form of hunger your
fight may be in the form of illiteracy
may be in the form of curing some
disease but pick up that fight and
commit to it there will be times when
there are downs there will be but they
will also be ups there will be times
when you want to give up there will be
times when the closest people do you
really kill you and the closest people
do you leave you but it’s all worth it
it’s all satisfying because I can say
I’ve done that so as a bitch you guys
favor I just need to take that promise
for you commit to the fight of lack of
compassion against lack of compassion
and I know we can’t reach every hungry
person or every poor person every single
day we need to be realistic enough in
that regard but we also need to be
optimist enough to get up every day and
try to achieve that end to realize our
own compassionate ambitions and help
others do the same for if lack of
compassion is true poverty its
imbalances risk
pundants it’s abundance is what you call
human thank you
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
assalamualaikum everyone I’m gonna start
off by telling you a story now I want
you guys to imagine yourself in that
story so the story begins of a couple of
friends maybe even three three to be
exact and they were just having fun
imagine yourselves as that child who was
having fun with his couple of friends
now you can imagine talking about
cricket you can imagine them talking
about their crush and you can imagine
the other two making fun of him because
he was talking about their crash so all
of these guys in their mid-twenties or
sorry in their early 20s were you know
trying to just have fun when suddenly
enters an elderly man a wise man this is
my interpretation of an elder man
something like candle something like
Hagrid now the problem with elder and
wise man is that whenever they come into
the room the conversation inevitably
turns really boring he spoils the fun
why because the conversation inevitably
turns to things like life death purpose
existence you know the boring stuff the
stuff we don’t want to talk about but we
know we have to talk about so these
three guys because he was an elder
indulge him in the conversation and
eventually the conversation went to the
credit path now as his elder man was
about to leave he you know he wanted to
have some fun of his own so he thought
why not
I threw a last jerker a curveball and he
asked them a simple question a question
which I want all of you guys to ask
yourselves as well what do you want to
do when you grow up now considering that
these three kids were roughly in their
early 20s it seems to be a real
illogical question it seems to be a real
a logical question for most of you here
because we’ve practically grown up and
considering if you are in your early 20s
that’s a really confusing age your
father might want you to get a job
because you’re about to graduate your
mother might want you to get married my
mother did she’s laughing right now so
you don’t want to get on the bandwagon
with your friends to go to a university
and you also want to change
but the thing is you’re also very lazy
and because of that you become confused
and in that confusion although this is a
really simple question you hesitate with
your response
now imagine these three kids giving
their responses it might be something
like the first one says I am a good cook
so why don’t I be a chef the other one
says that I know I can sell stuff I
dress nice I can do marketing or
advertising you can imagine the third
one to be some of a nerd the mathematics
economics physics types so he goes on
and says that let’s say I want to make
the economic policies of Pakistan after
hearing the responses the elder man
laughed because he knew he had him in
his place all of those in the place he
wanted to do and as he was exiting the
room he gave an alternate proposition he
says why not just grow up to be human
why not just be human it threw me off
this story throws me off every time I
sing look in your faces it throw you off
as well and you know the problem with
elderman is when they make an
intellectual slap across your face they
tend to leave the room so you revel in
the existence of crisis yourselves after
hearing the story practically I got into
an existential crisis myself so I
thought about this question a lot I
thought about the first time I was asked
the question what I wanted to be when I
grow up um I guess we would all agree
that we must have been asked a question
when we were in kindergarten in nursery
in prep and you know what the responses
were back then we instantly gave those
responses I want to be a doctor I want
to be an engineer I want to be a
policeman but you know we almost always
added an additional qualifier to the
statement we said we want to be a doctor
why because we want to help others we
want to be a policeman why because we
want to protect others we want to be a
teacher why because we want to teach
others in reality what our our dreams
and aspirations were were relative to
the benefit of others in reality what we
wanted to be when we grow up was
compassionate in reality what we wanted
to be when we grow up
was human becoming a doctor becoming an
engineer becoming a teacher which is the
mere process of it now as we grew up we
have been stripped away of our childlike
innocence I am NOT here to debate but
why let’s just say it’s the complexities
and harshness of life but I am here to
tell you about the result the result is
collectively as a society we keep
ourselves first and everybody as second
and what happens that is we become
stricken with the disease this society
becomes stricken with the disease and
that disease I say is lack of compassion
and my friends that lack of compassion
is true poverty now you may ask
moussah why poverty why is lack of
compassion poverty when it’s poverty
because we see poverty in a very juninho
lateral sense we see poverty as a lack
of food lack of shelter lack of clothing
but it’s also a lack of heart a lack of
soul a lack of purpose these are the two
intellectual sides of poverty but if we
boil them down isn’t it just lack of
compassion because when you aren’t
compassionate enough you don’t think of
the next person you take more than you
share and as a result you create a
hunger of needs for many but the hunger
of unending wants for yourself that is
the lack of compassion is true poverty
and that is my aim to fight this lack of
compassion my story starts three years
back as a sophomore at lumps me and my
two good friends is a friend Qasim we
weren’t so good friend such a good
friends back then I barely made it to
the border cycle as you can see so was
effort came to me and said that he
wanted to do something actually was F as
mom had been in raising and estarán in
her home for the last 25 years so he
could see a lot of hungry people coming
to the restaurant and not having enough
food but on the other flipside we as
part of the privileged class used to go
to a lot of restaurants a lot of parties
lot of catering events and we used to
waste a lot of food now that’s a great
conflict now when he told me the idea
that we should do something about it I
was immediately on board but the fact
was we didn’t know what to do
because it hasn’t been done before so we
called really confuse we researched into
it we research into the logistics the
mechanics of how we’re going to procure
food from one end and deliver it to the
other end and the process I realized it
had become more mechanical again
stripped of compassion stepped up the
humanity of it so in the frustration we
got onto Facebook and we did this we
went on to mspaint and wrote risk in the
spur of the moment and put it on
Facebook page we put our numbers on the
Facebook page and said that if anyone
has any excess food leftover just give
us a call overnight we went viral we had
2,000 to 3,000 likes and the next day we
had our phones buzzing so what we did
whenever a call came you bunked our
classes and we went from one corner of
the hall to another and what started as
a result was an incredible journey we
went to slums we went to meet different
people we went to meet different kids
and all of these kids and individuals
poor in compassion to the process all of
these children these children people
like these I realized that it’s all
about compassion children like these
volunteers like these our team began
interview and what started originally as
an effort which was volunteer based we
made it more sustainable we introduced
the risk Shah Pakistan’s first food food
saving vahik oh and afterwards we went
even more bigger even today I say that
risk is the result of the Compassion’s
of all of you people involved I claim
and I agree to this fact that I haven’t
put in as much effort in this venture as
you guys have and today after three
years I mentioned that eventually
started as three kids going on their own
cars collecting food is Pakistan’s first
social enterprise first social business
not just a charity a social business
catered towards the poor and we have
said of around 30,000 kgs of food
feeding 160,000 people from foods food
that otherwise have been gone to waste
and we have also channelized
a lot of philanthropy as a result but it
is you guys who kept me going on we
graduated man when you graduate there’s
a lot of problems especially when your
father and your mother and your peers
are going to pressurize you to do
different selves to you know explore
yourselves and that was the case with me
but what made us go on the first thing
is your compassion but the second thing
is the gravity of the problem the
condition in Pakistan is that the
gravity of the situation of food
security is really great one in two
Pakistanis is food insecure around 14
million children are malnourished but on
the flip side 40% of the food from farm
to fork goes to waste and on 1 billion
dollars goes into animal food based
charity that means there’s a lot of
resources to go around so the question
is if there are a lot of resources to go
around why is there hunger isn’t it this
lack of compassion isn’t it you just
taking more than you need I bet my life
on it yeah if you go to your homes and
open your fridges you must find
something that has expired if you open
your cabinets the situation will be the
same and what about the grain of rice
what about the grains of rice you
seemingly waste on the plate Oh like you
don’t realize that it’s not just the
simple grain of rice it’s all of the
resources that go into making that grain
of rice you show apathy and indifference
to the laborer to the farmer who toiled
the soul you show apathy and
indifference to God or nature whoever
you believe who blessed you with rain
you show apathy indifference to the
laborer to the transporter who procured
the grain of rice from the farm and went
to the market to your father who spent
his hard-earned living to get that for
you and most importantly you you show
apathy and indifference to your mother
who made this food with utmost
compassion and love when you waste the
grain of rice don’t you just rob them of
the compassion due to them don’t you
make them poor isn’t lack of compassion
poverty I guess it is
I think it is but what’s the result what
should we do how can we cure this well
the problem with hunger of wants is that
it can only be saturated to an extent to
completely eliminate it you just have to
let it go let it go how let it go by
embarking on a journey of return to be
that child where you put yourself
involved passions behind and put
compassion for others first you know in
the quest for our into an individuality
or uniqueness we are geared to strive
for our passion strive for ambitions but
the thing is we might find our ambitions
and the result is that many people are
lucky enough to find their ambitions but
we see a lot of people without purpose
as well we need scientists to think
better we need engineers to build by
there when it teaches to teach better
but none of that ambition none of that
expertise is of any use until it is
grounded in compassion remember the
story of the three kids they did just
that they realize their ambitions and
made them compassionate they realize
their compassionate ambition that is the
first step all of you need to realize
your compassionate a mission I am NOT a
wise man I’m just 23 years old
if the only thing I can give away to you
is guys the purpose of life is just this
find what you’re good at and do it for
others the first child remember he
wanted to be a chef that is a zephyr
he’s not your average poverty at-risk he
is because of his love of food he
procures food and distributes it to
people the other guy looking sharp as
always discussing he needs to strike a
Dean at any time so he does marketing he
wanted to be a marketer and he’s doing
that for risk the nerd flare was me I
was good at economics good at maths so
now I to Alleppey into element in
strategies as well as finance is a risk
so all of us realized or compassionate
ambitions but one more thing the story
doesn’t end here there is a second step
to the process as well a few weeks back
a lady came to my office so lady
came to my risk office so there’s a
tradition at a risk office that if you
come to the risk office we have to offer
your risk and you have to eat that risk
as well she wanted to share some food
visibly flustered she was visibly
foolish if she was really you know
tensed maybe this was some sort of a
release but she refused the food I
offered her when she was going away I
just complained to her a little bit just
joke that you came to my office and you
didn’t have food that’s like the number
of one SOP and she says she was visibly
offended at my statement and she says
bata don’t ever say that to me again
because I got something here more than
what you offer
I got risk for my room I got risk for my
soul and then I realized after realizing
my own compassionate emissions I have to
make other people realize this as well
that’s the second step help others
realize that compassionate emissions and
I’m thankful to these two idiots who
gave me the chance to get on the bike
with them and help me realize my
compassion in a mission so that’s just
the solution to the two-part problem of
lack of compassion now this lack of
compassion you can clear it by realizing
your own and helping other people
realize there’s and this order is really
important guys not three years back the
real trigger point for me for doing risk
was me and Qasim we’re going to a
restaurant we had some leftovers and
after restaurants you know we naturally
have to eat dessert so we went to local
ice cream shop and the waiter came to a
car door and I just gave the leftovers
to him and said okay please find someone
hungry and give this food to him the
waiter obliged five minutes later I’d
spend I peeked out of my window I saw
the same and better hiding the back of
Brioni under his shirt and going to the
adjacent building and eating it nibbling
down back of beyond it was my leftovers
man seeing him three of the waiters came
to him and started snatching the back of
beyond now just try to imagine the
justise fathom the irony that the same
person who is bringing you food is
hungry now as risk as a potential
economist I can design all the systems
and I promise I will design the systems
but no no economists no strategist no
scientists can design for this inherent
lack of compassion you have to do it on
your own this is the journeys you have
to make on your own so as I bid you guys
farewell I just need a take a promise
from you the promise is that it’s just
picture fighting against lack of
compassion realize your compassion
intermission and commit to that fight my
fight is in the form of hunger your
fight may be in the form of illiteracy
may be in the form of curing some
disease but pick up that fight and
commit to it there will be times when
there are downs there will be but they
will also be ups there will be times
when you want to give up there will be
times when the closest people do you
really kill you and the closest people
do you leave you but it’s all worth it
it’s all satisfying because I can say
I’ve done that so as a bitch you guys
favor I just need to take that promise
for you commit to the fight of lack of
compassion against lack of compassion
and I know we can’t reach every hungry
person or every poor person every single
day we need to be realistic enough in
that regard but we also need to be
optimist enough to get up every day and
try to achieve that end to realize our
own compassionate ambitions and help
others do the same for if lack of
compassion is true poverty its
imbalances risk
pundants it’s abundance is what you call
human thank you
[Applause]
you
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