How to Seize The Moment
Probably the best thing I like about life is its amazing ability to surprise us. One moment can change the course of your life forever. Just one moment! And you never know when that moment is going to strike you, and bring with it a cascade of events that you never even imagined before.
It can a be a person you meet by chance, a book you read on the airplane, a fight you have with someone, an event you witness on the sidewalk, a song you hear on the radio, an ad you read in the newspaper—anything!
When you are down and depressed and days feel like a burden to live, you tend to think that that is all there is to life. When you are on the ninth cloud and everything seems bright and promising, you feel that it is going to last forever. But nothing lasts forever. The moment comes and your life is changed again.
Review of Fear-Crushing Travel Guide
A good book is always a pleasure to read, and more so when it provides practical information from an experienced writer who knows how to convey ideas and information that you can instantly apply in your own life.
Last week I had my nose buried in the Fear-Crushing Travel Guide by Farnoosh Brock. This guide can help you become a savvy and informed traveler so you can enjoy your travels while crushing all the fears associated with traveling.
Now I have a traveled a lot and I know that when you leave the familiarity of your usual surroundings behind you, a strange anxiety creeps in your subconscious, no matter what. And that is what this guide will help you overcome.
Faisalabad, Pakistan Bomb Blast – When You Are Meant To Be Alive
A car bomb exploded at a gas station in my city Faisalabad, located in eastern Pakistan, this morning around 10:15 am, Tuesday March 8, 2011, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 100.
I was supposed to be there at about the same time, to meet a friend of mine who works in a government building just next to the blast site.
Why did I not go there and instead chose to sleep a little more, missing my appointment with my friend?
Why all those people who have died, and are dying in the hospitals or under the rubble of the demolished buildings, as minutes turn into hours, were meant to be there?
Why they said farewell to life, without saying farewell to their families, whom they left this morning to go on with their “normal” lives?
That is the mystery of life! I was meant to be alive and they were not. Who decides THAT?
Life Lessons—The Best Self-Reflections From 108 Bloggers
On the night of 1st June 2010, nine days before I was about to turn 39, I sat down alone and reflected back on my life.
Five days later, based on those reflections, I wrote a post titled 22 Things I Wish I had Known Earlier in My Life which was very well received by the blogging community and some of the bloggers wrote similar posts on their blogs after reading my post.
The idea struck me that why not ask other bloggers to follow the lead, reflect on their pasts and share with us the lessons they have learned in their own lives.
I asked a very dear friend of mine Farnoosh Brock to join hands with me on his project so we may come up with a directory of life lessons and then select and compile the best life lessons into a free PDF eBook for anyone interested to download, read and learn from.
I believed that such an eBook would serve as an inspirational book that will teach you and me things about life, how others lived their lives and what they learned, the hard way or otherwise, and that it will have the potential to teach us a thing or two about living our lives more effectively.
How To Love Someone
I was sitting there on the sand facing the ocean. She was sitting in front of me, with her back against my chest. My arms around her, holding her close to me, I was touching her face. Her hair fluttered around in the wind that was caressing us lovingly—the wind of life passing by.
Clouds hovered above our heads, looking down and watching us with their invisible eyes, as if they wanted to capture the essence of that moment.
The crimson-orange sun was slipping into the ocean, bit by bit, moment by moment—as if deliberately—just to see us together one more time before embarking on its own journey, leaving behind just a yellow tint on the skyline.
I looked at the setting sun and it spoke to me, “Stay there my friend, as long as you are meant to be. Make this moment eternal. Freeze it in your heart like a beautiful painting, so that you can look at it when you need to—and you will need to someday!”
What To Say When The Heart Wants, What It Can Not Have
Hi Love,
As I type these words on my laptop, I know, that at this time, you’ll be lying on your bed, trying to sleep with a weary heart. A heart that wants, what it can’t have.
Hearts are made that way. They are stubborn and demanding. And especially so when you are in love with someone. Like you are! Like I am!
Love, between a man and a woman, is the most mysterious force I have ever known, in my life. One moment you are flying above the clouds, and the next moment, you are buried in the darkness of the earthly realities of life. Stuck! Unable to think straight. Brain dead!
I touch your face and it lights up. I kiss you, and you feel as if I have breathed life in you, and yet, when you think that I won’t be with you for always—if any “always” exists—you feel as if your heart is sinking to the bottom of the ocean of your miseries.
What Must Be Your No.1 Goal For The New Year?
All change starts with a thought. All progress stems from a thought.
Every thought you think is like a seed, and given the right conditions, it has the potential to grow and bear fruit for you, for a long time to come.
As the New Year begins, it’s time to think and cut the crap out of your old thinking habits.
The future is still yours to create, no matter how young or old you are, there is still an empty canvas in front of you, waiting for you to paint on it, whatever you desire.
People make New Year Resolutions and forget about them by the end of March. That is why their new years are the same as their old ones.
Are you one of those? I hope not, but if you are, please know that you need to kick your butt and change what I call your “thought-style” because only that will change your lifestyle.
Like I said, it all starts with a thought.
What should be the No. 1 goal for the New Year for anyone?
