freedom vs happiness

elegant restaurant on top of the town. two people is playing pakistani
music on one side. colorful and glittering tables all over. kandido sat,
opened the menu and realize his mistake: the restaurant not only has
only one veg dish but it is also might expensive!

ancient tea shop

a man sit in front of him. "hussain it's my name. what your good name sir?"
kandido and hussain starts talking... and after a while kandido go back
on his perplexity about woman condition in pakistan...
"freedom? don't you think that's your value. do you think somebody cares
about it, here? when we use this word is in other context... with
different meaning"

"is your freedom something good? something that bring happiness? do you
think that love marriage are better than arranged ones?"
"the statistics seems prove the opposite. do you think here women are
unhappy?"
"i really don't know... i never talk with one... but i know that if a
woman walk in peshawar in jeans can be beaten... so they don' even try..."
"you know when unhappiness comes? when women come into contacts with your
culture... with people like you! so they start to desire something that
it's not in our culture... they start to dream that their life can
change just if they can wear a pair of jeans! do you think free women of
america are happier then them..."
"probably happiness is the same " confirmed kandido "happiness depends
more of your mind than the external conditions..."

cinema road

"so why you want to change our order... it worked well for thousands
years! you words are tricky, kandido... you are a smartass... you talk
well... but remember... that's only your point of view... the point of
view generated by the society you grow up in. not even your actually"
"don't blame me then" kandido smiled
"nobady here is interested in your opinion... your stories about your
girlfriends... your revolutionary ideas... "

Cinema road

"maybe... but that's the only thing they asked me... how to marry a
western girl... if in europe you can fuck a girl in the ass... and so
on... if a try to talk about politics they drop immediately the subject..."
"maybe i should put a burka and approach a woman and talk with her... i
just wonder if she would ask me question about sex like all the
pakistani men do. only western women here find a paradise. they are treated with full respect and attention... but maybe becouse they represent just a dream... untouchable dream... "
the bill arrived. hussain paid..."you are a guest of my country..."
"god bless you..."

Painting at the entane of a ancient caravansary