Originality: A rare trait

It has been a wonderfully interesting day. I was part of the panel for taking interviews of students in a business school. I was looking for focused students who know what they want from life. I did not want those students who were pursuing the field because their parents want them to do so or because they didn't get enough marks to get admission in the field of their choice. I was also looking for the students who are aware what's happening in the world. At least I was expecting them to know who are the major players in the political, business and scientific worlds. I was also testing the students on world geography and to some extent world history. I found very few students who have been able to fulfill the criteria I had set them to get in. I was looking for highly ambitious, passionate, original and persistent students for selection. What I found that majority of the students were just following what their parents or environment has offered to them without trying to create their own world. I have to continue taking the interview all of this week and expect more bright students in upcoming days who would prove to be an exciting lot to teach in upcoming semester.

Secret of Success

We all know the secret of success. This paradoxical statement is true. It is the secret because we look at the successful people with awe but we all know for success what we need to do. The secret lies in discipline yourself so that we have a control over our impulses and vagaries of heart. How to make oneself bound with the tedious tasks for achieving a challenging goal. The details require perseverance because even if we have understood the conceptual framework and design the contours of overall plan it is meaningless until details are not acted upon. The change does come, the seasons do change, the plants do grow, the ideas do become reality but after following a routine. We human beings know the secret of success that is "to discipline ourselves" but the attraction of getting instant gratification is too powerful for us to resist and we give in to the temptation of relishing what our heart wants instantly. Of course here I do not mean not to have fun or enjoyment, what I mean is not to leave the task which needs to be done at that moment because than the path to success will be lost, however if you do stick to the task, no matter how much you have to drag yourself to complete the task, you will have a sense of relief and fulfillment that can only be felt by successful people.

Making it happen!!

I saw a dream in the wee hours of morning
Flying high in the sky speeding towards heaven
Not the heaven that exists beyond the terrestrial
My destination was the garden that was real
Nestled in the mountains whose summits were frozen
To be there and lost, my heart had chosen
I told you my dream and what my heart has desired
Lets be there and do whatever is required
My heart leaped abound that it may happen
I spent time with you in my fantastic heaven

Writing not talking.

I will not talk and whatever I have to say I will write or in other words my fingers will do the talk through typing. It has been written by many writers that there is a connectivity between our brain and fingers and when we write its like emptying our cerebral glass on a sheet of paper so that we can get new ideas to think and act upon. I have also experienced the same thing. When I start to write and empty my mind of the existing thoughts by placing them on the piece of paper I feel as if I am turning intangibles into tangibles, a mass into something concrete. Something pushes me to keep writing once I start. What is that something, the pressure comes from where? I guess it is the unleashed power of words that forces the writer to write. Its like the flow of water, once the tap is opened each drop of water wants to come out, no stopping and what we see is the accumulation of written words. The flow of words cannot be left unguarded. You cannot leave them in the fuzzy state as they were in your mind. I guess the articulating attribute of writing makes it a creative process and once we are done we feel relieved as if a heavy burden is offloaded. We cannot jettison the burden' we have to place it with care as if we are putting a fragile flask on the table. I have talked so much and thrown away my words all around that I feel as if I have squandered my wealth without gaining any return on it. My mouth has to be shut and my brain has to learn to talk via writing more often than not.

It was about to rain
what is left is just pain
all my hopes have gone in vain
all clouds vanished without rain

Why I kept my hopes so high?
I believed in you that's why
"You said, "No one knows you better than I"
I long for your company and you said good bye

My eyes are looking at the cloudless sky
Oh God give me wings so that I can fly
and only touch the ground and lie
Where I can always find you near by

Just relax!!

Its early morning in Karachi and I can hear the chattering of birds. The sky has turned blue and the sun is about to rise. I slept for just 5 hours in the night and now I have to go to attend the official function at 8:30. I have to take bath, get ready and go. I want to come back by 2pm. I want to take rest, relax and enjoy. I love it.

Kuch khayal aya hai.....

khushion ki talash main gham sehtay hain
Kaisi be wafa dunya main hum rehtay hain

paliya hai raaz un say dosti karnay ka
jo sunna chahtay hain woh hum kehtay hain

bhool gai woh hamain chalo koi baat nahin
hum konsay unki yaad main her dam rehtay hain

is khayal say hojata hai assan dushwar safar
manzil main bas ..do char qadam rehtay hain

jo ho but shikan dikhao torkay hamara dil
hamray dil main bhi hazar sanam rehtay hain

dil aisa ke ho jaisay regzaar e be aab
ab to aansoo bhi hamarayy be nam rehtay hain

aas, yaas, piyaas, woh ban gai sahme udas
us say mulaqat pay hum ik nazm kehtay hain

alfaaz key chunao main kahin der na hojay
jo dil ko lagay sach, hum aik dam kehtay hain

Beautiful Moment

It was a beautiful moment when she clutched your hand tightly. Obviously she was scared and in pain and without hesitation she hold your hand to feel secure, protected and supported. You smiled at her gesture and let her hold your hand. Two hands together bound by trust. What made her reach your hand? You were not known to her for long yet she spontaneously got hold of your hand as if you were her best friend.The essence of the moment was believe in humanity. During that moment I found out two things.First you have a generous heart and second .......will tell you some other time.