Monthly Archives: July 2008

I was sitting and wondering something last night. We are all walking around doing our things day in and day out. Everyday the same routine, work home sleep, work home sleep… and so on. Yes ofcourse it’s important to do something in order to live a proper life. But what is a proper life? hmm

Is it a proper life to work ourselves to death. I mean yes, it’s important to get some money every month in our bank account but is that what life is all about? We do so much and get so little.. and no it’s not about money that I am talking about.

I am talking about the pleasures of what God has given us.. how many times like little kids do we take out time to stop next to a beautiful flower and see its beauty? How many times do we sit under the tree and run our hands through the grass to see the beauty of the nature? How many times have we stood under the rain, and reached our hand out to let the raindrops fall nonstop…?

But yes we would do anything else but those things that give us a sense of being alive.. a sense of feeling what nature has gifted us with, something so pure and absolutely at no cost. How many times do we just breeze past nature’s gifts, how many times do we just close our eyes to the beautiful miracles it presents to us?

How many times have you since the past week taken out time to cherish the beauty of nature?
So are we really living our life or is it living us?

Lots of people these days feel that things will just fall on their lap despite them looking around and seeing people struggle to do so much in order to achieve what they have. If we look around us maybe the kind of things the poor are going through, and when i am saying poor I mean the real real poor ones who can’t afford to eat twice a day or feed their children so they are healthy and fit.

When the rich get richer the balancing equation makes the poor go even poorer. But what is that makes the world go around. Is it money, is it love or is it time that you give to someone. I guess if we go for time then we can manage to get all the other things in the whole equation.

Giving someone your valuable time is more valuable than money, and when you give them time your love has to be in it too, in order for you to really make them feel special. And when I am talking about giving time I am talking about taking out time for the less unfortunate who might need your help, or probably just some work to feed their family. There might be lots of things around your place, if you are in Pakistan or India you might have seen the kind of poverty in various places, its quite obvious that the balance of money and food isn’t doing justice to the people. So many starve to death while others bloat their fat tummies like there is no tommorow.

But what in your view is a poor person, the one without money and lots of love or the one without love and lots of money? How can we end poverty in this world? What will it take in order to make sure that not all but atleast a big percentage of people in this world get food on their table.

Sad but so true.. that when we are eating our well cooked meals there are kids in this world who are hunting for food in garbage. I remember a few times in Pakistan I would get my car out and with my bros fill the boot of the car with lots of warm food to give to the poor few families a few miles away. The feeling you go through when you see their faces light up, is absolutely priceless. So how much does it take for any of us to realize it before we also enter the grave that we are no different than them.

The only difference is that some of us might have extra cash to buy one or two coke bottles everyday while a father somewhere is committing suicide because he can’t afford milk for his child.

Do enter your views on this, what is it that we can do to at least do our bit?

I have been always wondering about the fact that sometimes parents either push the kid into the right direction while other times they can totally mess their lives up by “not” pushing them enough to face the world.

Some examples are when a kid is interested in arts they want him to be a doctor, and when he’s interested in something totally different from the rest of the Asian families they want him to be an engineer. What is with that? Yes, times are changing and the new generation gives a little bit of notice to this fact that kids will do great in things they are interested in. Just to get the family to say “Oh your son is a doctor, great job” No no no. That’s NOT right.

If your kid is into arts, if he’s a good artist. Make SURE that he keeps it going, because who knows that one day he will manage to be the next Leonardo Da Vinci. The formula is so simple yet so confused by some parents.

On the other hand we have parents who don’t pay attention to what the kid does at school at all. So in other words they just bring them to this world and let them be on their own, yes they do pay their bills and so on. But they don’t help them stand on their feet. Maybe because they feel they don’t need to. But that’s where the problem lies. Those types of parents have brought kids to this world, but only for the sake of being parents. Not to be a mother and a father. The kids that are the result of these types of actions by the parents are most of the times either very low in confidence, and quite far behind the rest of the world in all possible ways.

To cover up their shortcomings, the kids tend to do different things at one time, or nothing at all. In other words their parents have brought to this world another person who will suffer himself for not earning for himself or his own family, if he ever can afford one. A child that’s either been pushed into a field or not at all both suffer alike. One who isn’t doing what he loves and other who doesn’t know what he loves to do because he never got anyone guiding him.

Kids should only be brought to this world when parents know that this is a full time job that they have to take seriously. So I would like to request to all present and future parents, please only bring kids to this world when you are sure you know that its a complete person you are giving birth to who would need guidance. Don’t just throw them into this world on the mercy of others.

Thanks for reading and do comment if you would like to add something.. :)