Professionals are amateurs!

 This is in response to an email in which I refused to do a podcast on the pretext that I had no experience.

Professionals are overrated – The Titanic was built by professionals. The Arc by amateurs!

Maths

The laws of nature are the mathematical thoughts of God. ~ anonymous 

bhaR main jaaye naukri bech khaii bandooq

 I have a colleague from Indore, India.

A couple of years ago, he quit his job and went on a world trip. He came back and started his job again. When I saw him, I asked, "What the point?"

He replied after taking a relaxing sip of his coffee: "Hamare Indore main aik kahawat mashoor hai:

bhaR main jaaye naukri bech khaii bandooq

Phir karainge naukri phir khareedain get bandooq

NDE

An academic who "died" for seven minutes has shared what he saw on 'the other side'. Speaking about the incident, the man, who's been deep into astrophysics PhD studies for 40 years plus, revealed a near-death experience due to a lung hemorrhage in March that resulted in a code blue - medical emergency call.

Through Reddit, he shared his story: "It took the doctors seven minutes to get my heart started again. During that time, I had a stroke due to the lack of oxygen in my brain." Upon gaining back consciousness after two days of a semi-conscious state, he posed the question: "What happened?"

'The actual correlation was something of challenging to comprehend but he got the hang of it eventually, reports the Mirror. His experience during those collapse moments extinguished his dread of death. He quipped: "I'm not scared of dying, not in the least. Afraid of what comes before, sure, but nature makes dying easy."

Further detailing his vision, he noted: "I saw a series of three oval ellipses, one at a time, just suspended in a black space. The ellipses were all upright, as though they were suspended by a string (but they weren't), and they all had a thickness to them, like a ring. On the inner and outer surfaces of the first ellipse, I saw mountains, streams, forests, and clouds.They were beautiful at first, but then they began to sour as their colors took on a yellow tinge. It faded away, and was replaced by a second ellipse that was a hot ring of iron, so hot that pieces of iron were slowly crumbling from it."

He remembered the smell of iron, which he later realized could be the scent of blood, suggesting that his physical surroundings influenced his visions. He continued: "I now take it that this is when I was in cardiac arrest. Suddenly the scene brightened to reveal the third ellipse that was covered with beautiful clouds that were light pink and blue, like from the most beautiful sunrise or sunset. That, I believe, is when my heart started beating again. When I regained consciousness, those three ellipses remained firmly fixed in my memory. When I was told days later about my cardiac arrest and stroke, it all began to make sense to me."

In an attempt to understand his visions, he explained how he had been studying German astronomer Johannes Kepler's Astronomica Nova and trying to comprehend how Kepler determined that the orbits of the planets are ellipses rather than circles. He believes that during his cardiac arrest, this concept was still on his mind, causing him to "latch onto that shape" subconsciously.

"That's all I saw. No tunnel of light or happy deceased family members welcoming me. I think that's dreaming, and dying reflect what happens to be most accessible in your mind during that time. Your mind tells you a story about it. I was never afraid during my ordeal, I was just a dispassionate observer. Amazingly, the only lasting effect of my seven minutes of code blue is a slightly diminished capacity of my short-term memory."

Full article here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/man-who-died-for-7-minutes-shares-insights-from-the-other-side/ar-BB1pGZF4?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=a56e7328a1174879957d701a71d4f436&ei=21

Agree

 

Mazboot aasaab

 Kehte hain:

"Agar aap restaurant main jaa ker akele khana kha sakte hain, ya cinema main jaa ker akele film dekh sakte hain to aap bohat masboot aasaab ke maalik hain - aur zindagi main bohat kuch akele ker sakte hain"

A remarkable quote

*My favourite quote to tease my atheist friends :)

 

preconceived notion

 Humans are strange. If we have a preconceived notion, we can't see self-evident things.

A month ago we had a mild storm in our city. We were unlucky to have a tree fall on the electricity grid. We, all in the neighborhood, thought it would take 4-5 days before power gets restored. Similar were the announcements from local city councilors and leaders.

Two days later, when I woke up, the TV screen was on with messages like Wifi=disabled, portal=off, etc.

I was sitting on the sofa in front of the TV screen, still thinking power was out, as my brain already believed that it would take at least a couple more days for power to be restored.

It took me 30 minutes to realize that if the TV screen is on with all such messages, my Wi-Fi signal on my iPhone is visible, then the power should be back. Indeed it was. 

Preconceived notions and beliefs turn human minds very blind to apparent things.

*

A diary of a recovered alcoholic

Shared by a close friend.

Four months back, my wife kicked me out of the house after she could not take my habit of binge alcohol drinking. I could not drive far and ended up in a low-level motel. My grown-up kids freaked out, and both came home to check on the situation. I'm not sure what I did at the motel under the influence of alcohol. I just recall doing inappropriate stuff, which could have taken my social prestige. As I recovered to soberness in a couple of days, I made the decision in my heart to quit alcohol cold turkey. I decided not to go to rehab as I didn't want anyone to know my closet's skeleton. The next three months were not easy. It was a roller-coaster. With the help of my wife, a lot of reading on addictions, exercise, good healthy nutrition, vitamins, and keeping myself occupied with work made me recover. 

Great, Right? - not entirely

I don't think I will ever touch alcohol again as now I fully understand the evils and price of alcoholism - but there is a caveat. I should say that there was something very unique in those moments when I was thoroughly messed up, taken over, and deep under the influence of alcohol, which made me happy! I was willing to give up anything for that part of psychological peace!! I can very much see why many people go back to alcohol again and again. There is something profound inside the core of alcoholism that makes you surrender yourself entirely to yourself!!! A sense of liberation and freedom from everything. Don't take me wrong. I am just sharing a truthful evaluation of myself. You may call it a diary of a (recovered) alcoholic.

I guess this is true for any addiction.

Ilm, Tarbiat, Tarze amal, aur danishmandi

 

Immigration

 ( A friend commented in a group discussion)

"Immigration is a painful process. Some of us who experience immigration respond to it with nostalgia and a desire to undo it. Nostalgic people wanna go back only if it becomes what they want it to be. Many respond to this pain by employing denial. There can be no normal/happy medium to it. Immigration is pathogenic; it’s a huge disconnect with the language that we are made of. The USA is the object of desire generated in the parent country and becomes meaningless when the desire is fulfilled. Ajeeeb o ghareeb beemari hai."

Dil!

 

A dark side of Ecosystem

 

Zameeni aur Aasmani

مُشکلیں زمینی تھیں 

 مسئلے زمانی تھے

اور جو صحیفے تھے 

 

 سارے آسمانی تھے

Yes Sir!

 Everything hangs on that one moment when you get asked: 

Are you ready to get this bestowed on you? 

And you reply with a full heart:

“Yes, Sir!”