LIFE AS IT IS

If you knew you would die young, Would you have changed what you had planned for life? Would you have studied art instead of business? Would you have pursued music instead of medicine? Would you have left your job and become a full-time father? Write short stories instead of marketing plans? If you knew you would die young, Would you have taken that vacation to the mountains that you postponed twice before? Would you have soaked yourself in the rain every time the sky opened, If you knew you came to live in this world for only 30 years? You thought you'd live to celebrate your 70th birthday. But if you knew this thought would one day shatter into smithereens, Would you have spent more time with humans than with screens? Would you? © Wara Karim

Life is both short and long - it depends on how you look at it. It seems short to people who have some goals to attain - too many things to achieve in a short span of time - they wish a day was 48 hours long, instead of just 24 hours. But life perhaps seems long to people with no clear ambition or goal to  reach - each day, they wait for the sunset time to arrive - the sooner it arrives, the better for them...  

Link:  Nature's Grand Finale A short piece composed and read out by me. 

You don't know where you will meet your next friend! I was at the local mall with my daughter and so was she. My daughter saw her little girl and started running... I followed. Shan and I struck a conversation as our daughters talked with each other in their own baby language. We exchanged phone numbers... that was in July. Yesterday, we attended that little girl's second birthday party. There weren't many guests - Shan's mother, her in-laws and us. We had a lovely time. Shan and her family are vegetarians - they are the only white Americans I know who are vegetarians! After coming back from Shan's house yesterday afternoon I thought of becoming a vegetarian, too! (Although I just ate both fish and meat for lunch!) But I hope to eat less meat in the future! After meeting with her, I have become more health conscious than before. I already had a habit of reading food labels, but since knowing Shan, I have been reading these labels with even greater attention! It...