Disappointments

The more you expect from someone the more disappointed you are going to get.

Cold Karachi And Its Pleasures This Year

The weather of Karachi has taken a twirl. The winter is finally here. It has become really pleasant, and this year all is happening from the weddings, Christmas, Eid, to new years. This December is going to be a winters with all the family members.

The late night sittings, curled up and not wanting to get up early morning, making random spontaneous plans and going to coffee places in the middle of the night, the dholkies and dance practices for the mehndies. This year the bakra Eid is also on almost perfect days making it an extended weekend and then 25^th being another holiday will really give us opportunities to plan something exciting.

But if nothing of such sort is initiated then there is nothing better than sitting in one corner in a dim light, feeling the cold gust of wind against you in spite of being wrapped in a quilt or shawl, sipping away a hot cup of coco or coffee, have a book in your hand or watching some TV serial (I’d prefer scrubs or reading a book) and be at peaceful with yourself, enjoying silence so that you can listen to the wind whistling, being far away from the worldly dissonance or just be with close friends and reminisce. Let us just hope we all have a wonderful winter this year!

Sense of Modesty

How many times I have experienced running into people with no sense of modesty. It seems as if we don’t even know what is the meaning of it? We claim that we are extremely pious; we read the Holy book everyday, but how many of us have actually sat down and understood it?

The other day I and a few friends were talking about a colleague, his social sense and ego. This guy has said many famous lines, which one finds it hard to restrain from its enjoyment. During the first year of university the guy comes up and introduces himself and all of a sudden says if we haven’t understood his name correctly then we should consult the student list and that his name is right on the top.

This seems to be pretty ok. The guy must have worked really hard to get there but the next incident is hard to miss out. When he was working in company, he was told to speak and express himself on any topic. Philosophy, was chosen and the first words uttered were “there is a very famous quote by myself: always busy = very good and never time = excellent”. Who has ever mentioned that his quote is very famous at the age of 22. He is fucking 3 or what?

Similarly there have been many incidents when the other person after being contacted thinks himself to be flying high up in the sky, not willing to admit his mistakes and just wanting to run down the other person in order to show his greatness. Once again I was at boat basin waiting for my dinner. We over heard this bunch of guys sitting right next to us. There was this hefty guy sitting with 3 slightly built boys. He seemed to be their senior and the way the guy was praising himself was like an ignorant fool. This guy was trying to show off just because he had the guts to misbehave with his teachers.

I am sure we all come across such naïve people, but they all claim to have read the holy book and yet indulge in an activity which is not preferred. I have mentioned the reading the Quran why? becauase we all blame islam and insist that we are the way we are because of it. Why is this concept of just reading without understanding in our society? And this not only implies to our Holy book, but also it is sad to say our SSC and HSC education systems as well. To be a victim is one thing but promoting such an act unendurable.