Life about Today... And Everyday...

Today I found out that there's so much in this life to observe, feel, understand and share...

Traveling back from work to home in a van, it was a variety I could see through the window of the last seat, that includes hundreds of different faces, each bearing an individual identity, different expressions and life stories, problems, issues and reasons of happiness, desires, dreams and fantasies. There were shops offering another variety of life. Some are selling, others are buying. Slaughtered chickens hanging, some are frying fish, welding, cleaning and dusting their shelves, having tea outside, changing tires, talking, looking for their ideal faces, cars of all types, road of variable quality, bicycles, carts, smoke and dust, waiting, arguing, laughing, and so much I don't even remember now, but this all made me think that I sure need to write volumes and volumes if I ever try to note it all down, which is practically not possible, as the more you go deep into things, the more complicated they become, and at one point, it appears to you that in fact, everything that you encounter is not much different from the other and they all seems like one--that is perhaps the Whole we all collectively make.

I love variety and variations. All these scenes I mentioned above were so rich and colorful. That is perhaps the life, the society, the community, the people, to which I belong. They are people for me and I'm "people" for them. Together we make a society. I'm an important part of it, just like everybody else. If I want my society to improve, I must improve myself. If I want my society to get rid of this age-old habit of lying and cheating, I must get rid of these traits, if present. I should try to inspire them to do things that benefit the society. Inspiring someone to do something is the best way. Be good, so others also want to be like you. And ultimately, our society, our lifestyles will improve. Seems quite idealistic, but it sure is practically possible. To change the world, you need to change yourself.

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[Photo: Fox's Fruit candies over MacBook]

Relationships, Cars and Butterflies...

You don't have to worry about relationship issues all the time. Relationships are relationships, what else do you expect them to be?! Some are fast running cars, others are slow, some even refuse to run after sometime. But relationships are not cars, they are even worse if they don't run--Only if you worry about them... but relationships are relationships, not cars.

It's mid March––Spring. I just spotted a white butterfly, the first of this season. It was weary and must be looking for some place to lay eggs before it dies. They are beautiful creatures, who're never even able to see their babies growing during their lives. They propagate just for us. They have a short life, but they spread the beauty and color all around. We like them, but they are not important at all. For us, cars are more important...

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[Photo: A car Hasnat used to own. Probably some 1970s Honda, in Lahore]

Memories and Music...

It's just a photo, a screenshot, not a memory, but it is a memory. Memories are weird, and quite complicated to explain how some non-physical thing like idea gets stored in a physical thing, like brain, or even in computer's hard disk. But formatting some devices is not easy as frying an egg...

Well, music is all about the proper arrangement of notes and sounds. Just like you have some limited Alphabets but you use them to create so many words, each meaning something specific, and a proper arrangement of these words makes a beautiful piece of writing; similarly, beautiful songs are mere a creative arrangement. Sometimes, songs get stuck in our mind, just like some people.

I haven't even connected the microphone and I feel like I've already drowned in the sound... The Sound of Silence, maybe, although I haven't yet watched that classic Musical movie. Sometimes, we delay few things, sometimes we do them, sometimes we regret, and sometimes, we even forget to regret. After all, it's all about the memory, not melody.

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Random thoughts, that can safely be called "Knonie-ism"

This creative mind has constructed such interesting tales... Still in my memory only. I don't know if I'd be able to recall that in the morning... I thought what if I write my random thoughts, just to see the variety my thought pattern offers.

As a kid, I used to think why some other smaller kids eat soil. I tasted it few times but it never attracted me. Although, I used to love gravels a lot... Shiny and with weird patterns. But fish is a kind of stinky thing, and I still can't decide if we should call fish an Animal or a Food...

I know that the hard tube at the end of Shoelace is called Aglet, but I don't think it matters much whether you know it or not. Sometimes, humans have enough time to create names for all these things. Everyone uses it, but perhaps no one even knows or say that name. Perhaps Faith is more important than the name of your Religion.

By the way, raw Fish is an Animal but you can call it Food once it's cooked...

Today, 14th March [or 3/14 if we write it in the American way], is observed as "Pi Day". I don't know if people actually celebrate this day. Today is the birthday of Albert Einstein too. Even if we don't celebrate his B'day, but he surely changed our lives by his theories. Ant is a very small creature, just like Pi [π]. They help us from the background, but we never realize their importance.

You both are almost identical. Those shiny crystal eyes and such fine dark lashes... Perhaps your brains resemble too. You are growing and changing, as everyone does. And as that Holy Book mentioned and later confirmed by Einstein that the Universe is Expanding, and it is! It's his Birthday today, by the way...

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