Walking in the Rain

Happened just by coincidence. I was coming back from Quaid-E-Azam University after meeting a friend; who it turns out just won the Presidential Gold Medal in recognition of his scouting , when it started raining. Actually raining is an understatement. It was like very heavy downpour. Felt like stone, to be precise. I was still quite far from my house, in the middle of nowhere, and as I got out to hail a taxi, I realized I hadn't walked in the rain for a long time. So I just started walking, while the whole world was running tying to find shelter :) And it was so fun. Never felt so calm since a long time.

After some time, I decided that I better get going, so I got into a cab. And the roads were flooding with water. And the next thing I know, we're stuck on Pir Widhai Road because there is just too much water. The water was coming in from the doors. It was crazy out there. Luckily, the taxi driver was a real cool guy, and we both thought why not have fun instead of complaining. So we drove through the flooded roads cracking jokes. A few places, I really thought we'd get stuck either in the middle of the water or in the mud. An hour later, I made it back home. I thanked the driver, and he said, " Yeah dude...won't ever forget the experience for the rest of our lives, right"? And I just nodded, thinking, sometimes when we choose to have fun, we can get it from the tiniest of experiences. :)

~The Class~

Just finished reading "The Class" by Erich Segal. Here are some of my favourite parts.


1-" And I've come to what I think is a profound conclusion. The Class is really not a class. I mean we are not a brotherhood-or anything at all cohesive for that matter.
In fact, the time we spent here was a kind of truce. A cease-fire in the war for fame and power. And in two more days the guns come out again."


2- " Later in the afternoon, the seperation was complete. They now divided into a thousand atoms, going off at various speeds in different directions.
Would they ever come together as a unity again?
Had they ever been one? "

3- " I had always looked at him as the exception to the rule. But now I realize that everybody pays a price for his success."

4- " For, though he had not known it-and perhaps still did not understand-he was, in human terms, the best man in The Class. "

5- " He emphasized that fear of death is universal. But what lies beneath that fear is the terror of insignificance. Of not being remembered, not counting."

6- " Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living--or that either can be fatal? We are here to remember our classmates. They are not nameless. They are known. They were ours, and shall ever be."

7- " This was the beginning of the end. They had met once more and just had time enough to learn that they liked one another.
And to say goodbye."

Appeal

A college fellow has been kidnapped by some people who're demanding ransom. Please pray for his safe return. I'll fill in the details once I get the real story. Been over a week now. Was in the newspapers too yesterday. I told you the world has gone insane. Any last light I thought I saw in the world is gone now. People just don't have emotions anymore. Kills me, honest.

The Return---Of Sadness

It's been a miserable month. The world, both internal and external, has gone insane. A plane crash in Multan a couple of weeks ago killing the cream of Pakistan ( Top Neurosurgeon, Justices, VC of Bahauddin Zakriya University, High Ranking Army Officials, Doctors; in total 45 people), the escalation of tension in the most bizzare fashion in the Middle East, and at a personal level sheer sadness. Where is Peace? My world's going dark. Where is light? I need hope. Why this utter despair? I want to do something. What? Questions, questions, questions . Where are the answers? :(

***That it Once Did***

Right now there is nothing new going on in my life, or maybe I don't feel like writing like I once did, because it doesn't satisfy me anymore. Not that I claim to be a writer, most of what I wrote was crap but it didn't matter, because it was for me. And since I feel, what I write now is no longer fulfilling the purpose that it once did, I am temporarily giving this blog a vacation. Maybe it will come back from its leave, maybe not. But either way, it was great fun.

Toofan :(

I want to go someplace where nobody knows me and where I know nobody,so I can just have time to think my life over. I just need some time alone with no worries. I just want to sit on the sand watching the waves. I just want to see the sun rise.I just want to enjoy the calmness of life, rather than live the hecticness(is it a word??) of life.

** Zindigi hai ya toofan
** Hum tu is jeenay kay hathhoon mar chalay.