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!”

A way to say Thank you

 I bumped into one of our senior hospital cardiac surgeons in a corridor of a building far from the cardiothoracic venue.

"Sir! What are you doing here?"

He responded, "I came to donate blood. Whenever something goes right, or something good happens in my life, I donate a pint of blood. It's my way of saying thank you to the All-mighty."

"Interesting. How often do you donate?"

"every 3 months on average."

"wow! What a unique way to be thankful".

Litmus test as being well-traveled

It is said that:

"Once you touch the threshold of at least 20 countries in at least five continents, consider yourself as well traveled."

Choosing Profession

 A sensible advice:

"Do what you like to do - and find someone to pay for it"!

Khayyam says

 از آبِ عدم تُخمِ مِرا کاشتہ اند

‏واز آتشِ غم روحِ مَن افراشتہ اند

سرگشتہ چو باد دمبدم گردِ جہان

‏تاخاکِ مَن از چہ جائی برداشتہ اند

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عدم کے پانی سے میرا بیج بویا گیا۔اور غم کی آگ سے میری رُوح بنائی گئی۔

‏ مَیں دُنیا مِیں ہَوا کی طرح سرگرداں پِھر رھا ھُوں۔معلوم نہیں کہ میری خاک کہاں سے لائی گئی ھے۔

‏(مطلب یہ کہ انسان کا خمیر معلوم نہیں کہ کس مٹی سے بنایا گیا ھے کہ اُسے ایکدم آرام نہیں۔چند روزہ زِندگی ھے اور وہ بھی غم مِیں گُزرتی ھے۔گویا آدمی غم و عدم کا مجموعہ ھے۔)

‏ (عُمر خیام)

On Science

 

Why?

 Why do so many educated and relatively successful people commit suicide?

Human psychology, emotions, and rationalizations are the hardest things to understand. I doubt any science explains it.

I was disturbed by this news:

"J. Michael Cline, the founder of movie ticket company Fandango, fell to his death from a New York City hotel Tuesday, a law enforcement official confirmed to CNN. The New York Police Department said that around 10 am on Tuesday, the 64-year-old was found with injuries indicating he fell from an elevated height from The Kimberly Hotel, a luxury boutique hotel in midtown Manhattan. Investigators believe he jumped from the 20th floor of the hotel. He was declared dead soon after by emergency medical services."

He was a Harvard MBA graduate who founded many companies.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/business/fandango-founder-death/index.html

Monkeys vs Humans

 

The worst agony

 کہتے ہیں کہ کسی زبان میں وہ لفظ نہیں ہے جو اس سانحے کے بعد بننے والی کیفیت کو دیا جاتا ہے 

 

والدین ختم ہوجائیں تو یتیم  

 شوہر نہ رہیں تو بیوہ 

 اولاد نہ رہے تو کوئی لفظ ایسا نہیں جو اس حالت کو بیان کرے ۔ 

خدا کسی دشمن کو بھی اولاد کا غم نہ دے آمین  

Future? Humanoids?

 

Anger and the character

 

If I am not hungry.....

اگر میں بھوکا نہیں ہوں تو میرے پاس مارنے کی کوئی وجہ نہیں

ہے

2 Dollars

 I have a friend with whom I often hang out in the evening to have falooda, either burgers or tacos. We both are physicians, so every couple of weeks, we shut our phones and go somewhere in the city to vent, talk, discuss, and have our sanity intact.

He always tips 2 dollars above the recommended amount. Yesterday, I asked him, "WTH! We always give good, handsome tips, so why always top it with 2 dollars?"

He replied: "Never in human history has someone become poor by spending $2 extra. It may make another person's day. He may not get rich either, but giving someone a sense of feeling good is priceless."

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Sensible advice

 

One beautiful Shyr

 

Election 2024

We have a choice between the devil and dementia.

Muddaii lakh bura chahe...

 Interestingly, everyone resides the shyr as:

The actual shyr is below and never had words Muddaii lakh bura chahe to kiya. All this happened in the 1950s and 1960s; Pakistani cinema started running this mutated shyr on screen - as still, emotions from 1947 running high. Original words were difficult, someone just decided to make it easy :)

Dostoevsky asks

تم اس وقت کیا کرو گے جب تمھیں ادراک ہوگا کہ تم نے اپنے کمرے میں جس مکڑی کو مار دیا تھا وہ اپنے آخری لمحات تک تم کو اپنا دوست سمجھتی رہی تھی

‏ ~ فیڈرو دوستوفسكى~ 

Stones and snakes of relationship

 The following picture is a great metaphor for any disturbed human relationship, particularly a man and a woman.

Often, a man can't see a snake holding a woman to go up on the cliff, making the man confused as to why she is not coming up, though I am holding her hand. And, many times, a woman can't appreciate the weight of the stone a man carries on his back, thinking why he is not making a full effort to pull me up the cliff.

Think of stones and snakes around you!!