Is it just me or has rebellion always been coupled with confirmity of some sort? I see kids today thinking they're rebelling but they're doing the exact same thing every other kid does to rebel, a la smoking, recreational drug usage, wild parties and so on, even down to wearing prepackaged attitude. The last one, of course, refers to the new outlets of t-shirts that provide you prepackaged attitude, should you be daring enough to buy them for Rs. 400 and up each. I visited one such vendor and found that the rebellious statement I may have been wanting to make would be much diminished by the knowledge that there are about fifty more shirts in assorted sizes and colors helping people make the exact same statement. What happened to individuality? I remember when I was young and had a lot of spare time, I would take a bunch of my mum's permanent markers and a white tee shirt and make my own radical statements, most of which are better left unmentioned in polite company, but at least it was a way to make your own statement instead of having some corporation make it for you and then sell it to you for a 100% markup. So the MTV disease has finally hit Pakistan, as kids start half-heartedly conforming to become individual rebels.