On the brink, on the verge, failing, failed?

Pakistan is on the brink...Pakistan is on the verge...Pakistan is failing....failed...

Words used without abandon, without consideration, without reflection about a state with 160 million bodies, if not souls.

Brink of what precipice? Verge of what disaster? Failing in what? Where? Failed? Then what about some other states that I would not name here that are in worse shape....have they ceased to exist?

What word would I use (you may ask)?

hmmmmmm

Coping.

For 60+ years Pakistan and Pakistanis have been coping:
- with cesarean birth under tenuous circumstances
- with deaths of guide and mentor
- with power grab by khakis in collusion with babus
- with forced dismemberment
- with corruption, greed, callousness, rights abuses
- with power usurpation
- with catastrophes - natural and self made

And with what skies delivers or earth spits the state and the nation show a resiliency. They cope.

Coping is not an ideal state for existence. In fact, this elongated coping can lead to mediocrity. Which is the real danger.