Devachan

Some days are better than others, yesterday was pathetic. It’s easy when the trigger is someone else, you can play the blame game, but when the problem is internal it’s hard to ignore, for someone who meticulously plans out his day, week and till the end of times, such a situation just magnifies the OCD compulsions, which sends you reeling down a circular path of destruction.  I don’t really write self help blogs, and this one isn’t the run-of-the-mill self help blog, but I use the following points to judge how far I’ve progressed on the path of destruction.  

(This blog is inspired by an article by Rachel Gillet http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247295)

1. Time Management :  I think I have this down apart from the crippling feeling of  not being able to do things.
2. Empathy: I can pretend, but im not sure if I will ever be able to do it genuinely.
3. Mastering your sleep: 8 hours enough said
4. Positive Self Talk: I hate it but I try
5. Consistency: where there is OCD, there is consistency
6. Asking for help: I will eventually ask after all is lost
7. Knowing when to shut up and actually doing it: this is something I need to learn
8. Listening : what did you say ?
9. Minding your own business: helps to filter the most important things in life. I bet everyone has their own set of problems, if you don’t, get in touch with me
10. Mastering your thoughts: one step at a time. 

Life is never as simple as listing ideas as pointers,  and I quote Limp Bizkit here “ life’s a lesson, you learn it when your through.”

Biocenosis

We usually tend to look for big signs; we expect the mystery of life to be communicated in grandeur. And it’s because of this expectation we miss out the subtle signs which describe the magnificence yet simplicity of the gifts life has to offer.


1) Timing: the seasons teach us that there is a time for everything, what goes around, comes around, it teaches us patients. The good things in life come from self discovery, meditation and contemplation with time and not like instant coffee.

2) Humility: the trees shed their leaves every autumn only to gain their supremacy back in spring, every fall has a rise, there is nothing that you cannot come back from, staying humble to your roots may not get you to the top quickly but it will when the time is right.

3) There is peace in chaos: reconnect with nature through your five senses and you will realize its contradictions it's simple and complicated, orderly and messy, quiet and busy. And once you can associate with this, you harness an internal force that helps you achieve peace in the midst of chaos. This happens when you realize your world is bigger than just your problems.

Watching the darkness of the night transform into light injects a burst of hope to get up every morning. We tend to limit our lives with fear, anger, ill health basically self imposed barriers. The leaf transforms the invisible energy of the sun to nourish itself; you can use this invisible energy to turn around your life as well.



 

Doodh Jalebi

It’s sad that I only write in the midst of extreme emotions. As I lay here wondering about the pain I’ve felt and pain yet to come, makes me realize all that I have so much to do and so very little time. I was, like most people wasting my time on facebook (on 14th August) and saw a lot of privileged people showing tones of emotion about Independence Day. Most of the youth that had their own mode of transport were present at a record breaking event of most people singing the national anthem at one time in Defense, not Lyari not at Katti Pahari. The lives lost (Jafferabad hotel 14 dead) in the violence in the country on the day took a back seat being just a new ticker on a few channels (like filler). The youth so excited about our independence were more worried about “do I have a green shirt/kurta to wear. “

The political situation is probably going to inspire Ekta Kapoor for another of her 1000 episode master pieces. We cry for democracy but we let people like Altaf Hussain dictate our daily lives. Is democracy really the best revenge? It’s because of Democracy that Benazir’s, Shahbaz Bhatti and Asia bibi’s killers are enjoying the fruits of National Treasury, when an MQM member dies in London we in Pakistan Morn with a dry day (that obviously doesn’t hurt the economy). It’s definitely wrong what Musharaf, Ayub, Yahya and Iskandar Mirza did, but no problems with handing over the city to the Army just because some drunk in London says so. Our youth is going to change the future? Really, in midst of the London events all the youth could do is come up with insensitive jokes? And attending Dharna is the cool thing to do these days right? Zardari failed, Sharif looks weird with the Hair Transplant, Benazir dead, Jamat-e-Islami would make me keep a beard, let’s just support the charitable cricketer who was a playboy in the Past.

Then the newest fad in the past 24 hours is sharing the Amir Liaqat video. Someone in Denmark Draws a cartoon, we’ll burn our own stores, get on the roads, boycott foreign goods as if not selling to Pakistan will dent any country’s GDP, Amir Liaqat gets his PhD in 20 days, becomes Minister of Religious Affairs and Respected TV host is still airing video’s (rebuttal accusing GEO) , while some crazy priest decides to burn a book and a village in Gojra is wiped out. Anybody can claim to be a doctor (my hirelabs friends would agree) today, or even a golfer for that matter.

It’s easy to update your status on facebook, start using twitter and beg someone for a Google+ invite. Doing the real thing is a wee bit difficult. Your thinking who is he to judge us? He’s just a blogger and pessimist. I would in reply, grace you with a few words used by Amir Liaqat and say, work towards removing the Blasphemy Law, which has led to a disrespectful demise of many of my people. REMOVE IT so that I can live with the peace of mind that I won’t be abused by its misuse. Blame it on America and the Jews, but stay alive on their Aid, the youth asks America to send troops to London (new copy paste status fad) Why? ‘Cause UK takes that much Aid don’t they? Maybe the outburst against London was due to pathetic results in your O and A ‘levels, sadly that’s not on their agenda to fail you, should have studied harder. A whore is paid to fulfill ones fantasy, America pays, to make you understand reality.