To Another Life

[toanotherlife]

Be a Parent, not gods.

Parenting is perhaps the single most difficult task in the world. However, in Pakistan it’s a ‘natural’ given, after all we are biologically and genetically programmed to embrace this seemingly easy task. Every woman is fit to be a mother, as long as you can carry a child in your womb, and similarly every man is qualified enough to be a father as long he can successful impregante a woman.

[inayatstar]

أول الغضب جنون وآخره ندم “Anger begins with madness, but ends in regret.”

(via tarz-e-taghaful)

[heartliiines]

Dear Samantha,

I’m sorry We had to get a divorce I know that seems like an odd way to start a love letter but let me explain: It’s not you It sure as hell isn’t me It’s just human beings don’t love as well as insects do I love you…far too much to let what we have be ruined by the failings of our…

[mobhater]

I couldn’t stop reblogging it. A beautiful love letter indeed!

[7-below]

Steve McCurry “Girl with Green Shawl, Peshawar, Pakistan, 2002”

[kkdas]

[toanotherlife]

Its strange how life changes a great deal, with just a single intervening event. A death of a dear one is something that causes the most imbalance. It also shows how our life is dependent on other people, every single breath another human takes somehow has an effect on the other .

If we could dissect life to its smallest component we might see it as made up of little fragments of other beings, some just have a direct effect on us and others indirect. Its true that at the end we disappear into the unknown alone , but even at the very end the way we depart leaves an impact on the life surrounding us. The disappearance of a person forever leaves a vacuum-a permanent void that is difficult to fulfil. Death is the only ultimate reality of life , the only phenomena that is universally shared among every

My friend's father died. She lives nearby. Just few days ago she invited me for tea. I have never been to her house before. It was heartbreaking that I had to visit her in such circumstances. I caught a glimpse of her father's face wrapped in white. He seemed peaceful. I wonder if he could hear people crying around him.

My heart trembles on the thought of people close to me. I have never been directly confronted with the reality of death. Its something that nobody can escape, but for now I would like to close my eyes on this.

[toanotherlife]

She: So if I come for 15 days?

He: I will make love to you to last for an entire month.

She: if I come for a month?

He: Enough to last a year

She: and if I stay for a year?

He: Enough to last forever.

[toanotherlife]

I just had Parhata Aanda alongside a cup of doodPati for the Sehri- and this just made me realize that how I have forgotten to rejoice about little things in life. As much as Iam  thankful to Allah for the kind of choices we can afford in terms of food, but more then that it is about the joy of sharing some laughter with your loved ones.For the first two Rozas, I have been extremely depressed to come downstairs for Sehri with my family- so all I did was had some water and few dates. I remained sulking in bed. It was only today, after a lot of effort that I dragged myself downstairs- and instantly  realized what I was missing on. The good thing about family is that at times no questions are asked, and one is just welcomed- no matter how absent we are at times. So this just helped me conclude my first resolution for Ramadan:

Be more kind and  appreciative towards your family. 

Happy Ramadan  

[toanotherlife]

You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. -Heathcliff

Wuthering heights

[poeticislam]

The planning of The Almighty (Allah) is better for you than your own planning, and He could deprive you from what you ask to test your patience. So let Him see from you a determined patience and you will soon see from Him what will give you joy. And when you have cleaned the paths of answering (of supplication) from the stains of sin and was patient about what He has chosen for you, then every thing that happens to you is better for you whether you were given or deprived of what you have requested.

Imaam ibn Al-Jawzee (rahimahullah)

Note to self

[toanotherlife]

Yeh manzilein hain kaunsi (8) #Underconstruction (at Race Course Ground)

[toanotherlife]

And he stood there like that mighty old tree, with his arms wide open. She like many was selfish, just another to pluck the fruit of love it offered. (at aik Shaam Muhabbat Ke Naam)

[larmoyante]

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

Maya Angelou (via larmoyante)

Need to remind this myself more often.

[toanotherlife]

Leftovers from the Colonial heritage. #BritishArchitecture #HolyTrinityCurch #1857 #Murree

[toanotherlife]

When the heat becomes unbearable here ☀️#WeekendGetAway #SuchWeatherAwaits #Murree

[toanotherlife]

The British were colonisers but they were also homesick migrants. The yearning for ‘home’ is all too visible when one sees the English architecture in Murree. #TheHolyTrinityCurch #Murree #ViewFromTheMunicipalLibrary.

[toanotherlife]

Pakistan is characterised not by the outliers among its citizens who are willing to kill those unlike themselves, but by million of us who reject every opportunity to do so.

-why Pakistan will survive Mohsin Hamid