Thanks

This year has been a great year for me and I believe for mst of my fellows. There were ups and downs but they were worth it.

Just one thing left to say:

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

In a new town

Before reading play this song and then read the blog.

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I started my journey 4 months ago in columbia, South Carolina as an exchange student. I was confident but a little, very little nervous. Everything was different but not new. Different language accents, different thinking but all that made my starting prettyexciting. I went to a high school, made friends but my first line to any person was the same, " Hey My name is Aqib, I am an exchange kid from Pakistan. What's your name?" That's how I made plenty of friends. I came here to make the concept about my country better and I think I did a pretty good job. In addition I discovered myself. I was one of the most short tempered person in my family but now it seems as if I never was. I always think on matters and sort them out. I love the way life is going and have been to me. There were some bad times , by bad times means simple bad times. But I heard the following line in a movie and I think it's right. And the line was, " The bad thing about good time is that it ends but the good thing about bad time that it also ends". I think it's right. I visited many new places, discovered some facts about my own country while giving presentation about my country. I wrote this blog with no difficult wordings or any other big words because I like to read such stuff and I bet you too.  My life is facing new challenges. Well you know what, we all face new challenges in every sphere of life and that's what ,makes us strong. I know it's getting dramatic but one more advice " Never give up for anything only because it is hard even iif it's your life". 

Independence Day Special!

A Proud Wife

Saiqa, a 64 year lady, had suffered last of challenges in life. She lost her husband after five years of her marriage. The father of her three daughters. The only roof on them. But she is proud of what she had lost. Lets read her life's summary:

"I still remember that 18^th birthday of mine when I woke up from my bed and came down the stairs to TV lounge. No one was there, there was pin drop silence. I walked into the kitchen, no one was there too. I came to lounge again and in a swift everybody pop out and said “Happy Birthday”.  Everybody gave me their gifts and my dad instead of giving me any present, gave me a envelop and said, “Go open it and come back and tell me what you feel”

I went to my room and opened it. It was a picture of a young man; it was my proposal for marriage. He was the son of my dad’s pal. He was a soldier in Pakistan Army. A bit of anxiety, contentment and melancholy came into my eyes. I came out of my room and my siblings gazed at me. My father came crosswise to me and I said, “Whatever you feel, I am content with your choice”. Those days were beautiful, when Saad (my fiancé) use to come to our house and saad use to gape at me. Days passed; finally our wedding day came, the blissful night ever.

 Saad was a soldier so he came to home on weekends. I lived with my mother in law in hasanabdal. 5 years passed so quickly and happily. I had three daughters. The youngest was 11 months old. On that weekend, Saad came to meet his daughters. We planned to have a party for our youngest daughter. It was her first birthday 6^th September 1965. We invited almost everybody. It was very early in the morning on 6^th September when saad got a call from his senior officer; he told him that India had came to the Pakistan border and will attack at any moment so he should be at his position very soon. Kissing her daughters’ faces he left dwelling. He said that he will come back today if he gets a chance to celebrate her daughter’s birthday.  He told us all to not to fret. This was the time when India was going to attack on Lahore with tanks and jet planes. I prayed and sent him with a smile. At that time Pakistan got tanks but they were very less, almost one tank of Pakistan was in front of 5 Indian tanks.

Everybody came to our house in few hours and asked about Saad. I told them everything. Everybody prayed for Saad and rest of the army. Due to bombarding everyone had to stay in our house for all day. It was 5pm when my brother knocked the door. I went to open it. He told me Saad is in a bad condition in Islamabad hospital. I was almost choked at that position. Without telling anyone that I am going to hospital, I went to hospital with my brother. There were so many curfews in the way that it took hours to reach the hospital. Finally we reached the hospital. I saw two soldiers with a dead body and I almost fainted. But I stood and went to that body and lift that white cloth and it was Saad!

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 I shut that cloth immidiately. There was a silence; I did not know what to say. It seem as the world was stopped for few seconds. I cried as the world was ended. I was choked. black shades came infront of me. My brother shook me and said you should be proud of him. He gave his life for Pakistan.  

 At that time I wasnot in a condition to say anything but I prayed to God ,“Thank you God that you gave my husband a shaheed’s death”. In that particular seconds My whole life just ran infront of me. I thought of all the people and soldiers who died in this war. Saad death was due to a bomb, he was standing far from it but its one piece got straight into his heart. I along with my brother and soldiers went to my home, the time was 11.30pm. Saad fulfilled his promise. He came to his daughter’s birthday. I am proud to be her wife. It’s been forty six years but I still remember his white face. He wanted to so do something for his country. And he did his best to protect it. Hats off to all the forces who try their level best to protect country."

Mother's emotions...

I asked my sister what it feels to be a mother and her lips started saying whatever it was in the deep oceans of her heart. Below is the short summary of what she said.





“Being a mother is an immense feeling. The whole perspective I had about the world changed. Before being a mother I was reckless and only took care about myself and my belongings. But after becoming a mother, the globe seems much brighter than I wanted to see. Though two years have passed but I still remember that day when lying in the bed in pain, I heeded the voice of a weeping newborn and asked my doctor inquiringly, what God has gifted me? She replied with an unfathomable smile, a daughter. That gorgeous face of my daughter was adorable and lovable. At that time the ambiance changed. The shining rays coming from the curtains hanging on the window greeted my daughter tenderly. The birds outside in the heavens chanted charming songs. Leaves rustled in every single way to welcome my daughter in this beautiful world. The flowers and roses blossomed. A different milieu was made. That crying sound of my little infant was the best song I had ever listened to. It was the happiest moment of life. I felt stronger and responsible. I understood that now a big responsibility had come upon my shoulders. Since then I have been trying in each and every pace of my motherliness to fulfill the responsibility that I have been given with. For the first time Fatima, my daughter became ill when she was six months old. She suffered from scabies. I lost my temper and cried a lot. At that time I realized that my mother was far stronger than me. She gave me the assurance that Fatima would be fine soon. During Fatima’s illness I didn’t sleep all the night. I used to give her all the medicines on time. That summer days with 40 degree Celsius were the appalling days of my life but made me stronger than I was. After few days of illness Fatima became fine and healthy. Now I take care of her in a bettered way. I know what food I should give to Fatima and ways to handle her problems. She is two years old now. All the time she is roaming, wearing her lightening shoes which give sounds as she walks.  Always do naughty things and becoming demanding. I love her as the way she is. God bless her in future. Amen. “

Relation between Life and Time.

Life never is the same. It depends upon the shades of time. Time changes incessantly without any hiatus which influences our life whether in a good or awful way. Our single movement is bonded to time. If the time going around is gloomy, never lose hope because after hours of darkness there comes a new day which brings a new ray, which itself gives an optimistic energy.

                                                           

But if the time is joyful, don’t be over excited that you overlook the importance of the person because of whom these moments come about to you. My life like others was not the same. There were good, shocking, horrible, devoted, required, needful, arousing moments that I can never forget.

 According to every human being existence is something else in different shades of time. In this blog I am going to put my life incidents and others in different shades of time whether it is blissful, mourning or appalling.