The days fly by so quickly. You wake up everyday and you think about getting dressed. And the next time you get a chance to think, you're thinking about getting undressed to sleep! How cruel of us to have entangled ourselves within ourselves so much that all we do is serve our needs. All we think is about us only. We look for a silver lining in every cloud. We've formed such small worlds around us, that we'll never fix, but they dont want to risk that world as well. My greatest dream is to be free from my own self. To break out from this small world of mine, to step into the big one. Not only step, but work for it.
That day we were discussing Che Guevera at the uni when imran said "people like him had no families to care for" but i told him, sacrifice is the first pre requisite to success and greatness. If we in Pakistan cannot muster a movement, a revolution against the tyrant feudals, or the filthy rich, or foreign pleasing politicians, its because we are not ready to make sacrifices.
People like lenin, guevera, mandela, khomeni were great because the broke free from their small worlds. Had they refused to do it, Russia, Cuba, South Africa and Iran would've totally different.
Actually, my dad said something to me which initially i misunderstood, but now i get it. He said "mediocre bnda kabi agay nae jata/a mediocre person never succeeds" . I thought with all respect it was shallow of my dad to consider a man's status or intelligence as his requisites for success. But i later realised, he never meant that. A mediocre person will be someone, who does something, and does it halfheartedly. One who plays safe. One who is so attached to his small world that he refuses to take any step which might disturb the balance in it. One who's not ready to make sacrifices. Such people cannot succeed in the true sense. Earning money is not success, having the heart to help this world is.
People like Martin Luther king jr. dedicated all their lives to their beliefs. To their dreams. People say "he gave his life for the cause", but thats so untrue. Infact, that is what precisely life is actually. To be able to live out your dreams, and help out this world. The greater world.
My greatest dream is to have such a life, where i go to sleep each day knowing i played a little part in making life easier for people. Where i wake up, promise to give my heart and soul to everything i do, to free myself from me. Where i would be free from my own small world. Thats my dream.
I pray:
"Ya Rab dil-e-Muslim ko wo zinda tamanna day,
jo qalb ko garma day, jo rooh ko tarpa day"
3 comments:
we all hav such dreams... but one has to be rough n tough n break a few hearts and make a few sacrifices in teh way
in our culture our families hav the habit of makin sure we do not get out n think of dreams... whereas in other parts of the world families actually encourage the unorthodox!
our culture is such a shame really :(
thats not true, i have no such aspirations, martin luther depresses me, i like che guevara only because he wasnt entirely a peaceful revolutionary, and hes almost cool, but i wudnt wanna live his life either, youre going thru a phase, i think. However i agree with you on breakin free from our worlds, im too restricted to my wants and desires, not caring about others, but thats coz there isnt much one can do. SOOOOOOO WHATSUPPPP??? HOW R U?
ameen!!
As the guiding star at dawn, I truly agree with your contemplation but my agreeing is just another set of words and not success and for success undoubtedly we can pledge a difference in our hearts before we sleep and wake to a dawn where all the forces of the universe work to get that pledge from last night materialized!
May God give us the strength and determination!
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