Amrita Pritam - Main tenu fir milaN gi

I start reading Amrita Preetam very late - but chalo der aaye durust aaye.

Aadmi mehboob se bichaR bhi jaaye to aik aas hamesah rehti hai. As Baba fareed said

Kaga sab tan khaiyyo, chun chun khaiyyo maas
Do nena mat khaiyyo, jinhey piyaa milan di aas

Following is her one beautiful poem - her classic. (English translation below by someone)

 میں تینوں فیر ملاں گی- کِتھے؟

کس طرح؟ پتا نہیں

 شاید تیرے تخیل دی چھنک بن کے

 تیرے کینوس تے اتراں گی

 یا ہورے تیرے کینوس دے اُتے

 اک رہسمئی لکیر بن کے

 خاموش تینوں تکدی رواں گی

 یا ہورے سورج دی لو بن کے

 تیرے رنگاں اچ گھُلا گی

 یا رنگاں دیاں باہنواں اچ بیٹھ کے

 تیرے کینوس نو ولاں گی

 پتا نئیں کس طرح، کتھے

 پر تینوں ضرور ملاں گی

 یا ہورے اک چشمہ بنی ہوواں گی

 تے جیویں جھرنیاں دا پانی اڈ دا

 میں پانی دیاں بُونداں

 تیرے پنڈے تے مَلاں گی

 تے اک ٹھنڈک جئی بن کے

 تیری چھاتی دے نال لگاں گی

 میں ہور کج نئیں جاندی

 پر اینا جاندی آں

 کہ وقت جو وی کرے گا

 اے جنم میرے نال ٹُرے گا

 اے جسم مُکدا اے

 تے سب کج مُک جاندا

 پر چیتیاں دے تاگے

 کائناتی کنا دے ہوندے

 میں انہاں کنا نو چناں گی

 تاگیاں نو ولاں گی

 تے تینوں میں فیر ملاں گی

I will meet you again

How and where? I know not.
Perhaps I will become a figment of your imagination
 and maybe, spreading myself
in a mysterious line on your canvas,
I will keep gazing at you.

Perhaps I will become a ray of sunshine,
to be embraced by your colors.
I will paint myself on your canvas
I know not how and where –
but I will meet you for sure.

Maybe I will turn into a spring,
and rub the foaming drops of water on your body,
and rest my coolness on your burning chest.
I know nothing else but that thislife will walk along with me.

When the body perishes, all perish;
but the threads of memory arewoven with enduring specks.
I will pick these particles,
weave the threads, and

I will meet you yet again.

Voices in Schizophrenia

At one point in my career and back home after MBBS, I practiced Family Medicine. It was a different experience. I saw many patients who had active schizophrenia. I read about it a lot and am still not fully cleared; instead, I am baffled - that is why these patients always hear these voices as completely as strangers. One patient told me his voice is like a transmitter talking and always starts a conversation with the words "start initiative." Some patients reported hearing the bell before someone started talking. Some descriptions, discussions, and reports were mind-boggling and intellectual for me. Some of these patients were no non-sense, highly literate people.

Sometimes I wonder, is this a disease, or do people communicate to some alien world we can't see? 

cause?

Recently, one of my patient - who was an active union member at his time, said to me: 

"There is no F****** thing as cause. I learned it the hard way. Now I only fight for myself!"

Psychology of Reward

I was absent as I was traveling and spending time with myself to have a better perspective and account of my life. I spend a lot of time reading and watching Ted Talks. Out of many, I found the following talk from Dan Pink very interesting. It gets interesting as you go forward on video.

Link: https://youtu.be/rrkrvAUbU9Y