Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Circles....

Going around in circles, leads mostly to nothingness. Only sometimes, when you are too, you pick up fine lined details that you could have missed out before, giving you and edge over so many others.
 
Revolving, in a dervish-esque trance, about the same sacred stone, each time, a new wave of trance, each step, closer to losing oneself. To lose oneself in pursuit of one's dreams and ideas is a dilemma in its own case. Lose yourself, as not to lose your sanity, lose yourself, to escape from everything else and rise to a state of enigmatic consciousness.
 
Busy week...well, sort of. Wrapping up stage 1, stage 2 lies in wait.
 
Thankfully Ideas has ended, and traffic around the city is now more easy to go by. What beats me is why there are benches on the PAF museum side of Shahrah e Faisal? Who walks that stretch? Ok fine, the fixed and cleaned up that area for the first time in my almost 2.5 year history of driving through that road, but benches are beyond me!
 
Today is relaxed...have a meeting at about noon to put finishing touches on the masterpiece. Lets see what finally turns out and when we are actually able to get things moving. Fingers crossed. Need lots of prayers and wishes.
 
 

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Blank-ness

I have no idea what to blog about. Quite a few things come and go before one has time to actually sit and focus on anything in its entirety. In short, things have been busy.
 
After a long long period of being good aquaintences, I met N recently, and we take the opportunity to yak each others heads off pointlessly every once in a while. We've known each other silently for approximately 3 years now, and its always been warm, comforting and peaceful. Now its anything but peaceful, but in the fun sense totally! Its intriguing as to how we as people allow certain relationships to cross cerrain safety barriers over periods of time, making acquaintences, friends and a lot more in the process.
 
Moving on, things are looking interestingly busy on multiple fronts, lets see what happens in due course of time. Winter has started creeping in, one can actually move around town without getting drenched. The light nip in the air at night, the slight dryness, feels just great.
 
What else did I make a point to blog about...?
 
Yeah, attended a seminar yesterday titled "Y is for Youth", aimed at marketing to the youth, and came back with a head ache. It was probably the worst event ive everseen done by the Dawn group!
 
Best part about yesterday though was the part about me driving home at night. The roads had very light traffic at about 8.30 pm! I managed to breeze home and in the process I almost believed it was past 11!
 
The drive to work this morning too, was fairly comfortable as compared to normal days. I guess the citzens of this city are freaked out by potential traffic jam threats!

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Challenge...

Until fairly recently, I believed that there are two types of people in this world. One, that takes challenges as they come in their stride, occasionally resolving issues as they come, but generally trying to evade the creation of issues. The other, evaded issues all together and was always content with the monotony in their lives. It was a few days ago, that I discovered the third kind, those that actively hunt for challenges and are fuelled by the constant desire to find the greatest challenge. I have, since then actually managed to find a coupke more people, hence realizing I was normal...possibly.
 
Some live the dream, some live to build the dream, and are satisfied in doing so, knowing the dire circumstances that one may face in the process and knowing that many mountains lay ahead,
 
I was discussing an opportunity with a friend, who asked if I thought I could do the task. I inadvertently blurted out "If I could do it, I would not do it". A couple of moments silence followed, then after realizing what I had said and the liberation that I felt after saying it, I went on to explain the statement further. Bottom line being, if I knew how to to accomplish a certain task, it would hardly be a challenge. It is the search of the ultimate quest that keeps me going.
 
The past few days, I have been positioned (by some random reason) to contemplate on the beauty of this one word. Challenge. In our lives, everything is a challenge, to someone or the other, in some form or the other. Why do challenges appeal to us so much? Why is it beautiful to challenge the possible?
 
I believe in everything, for everything is possible...

Sunday, November 12, 2006

A topsy turvy past week, crazy ideas, crazy emotive states and even crazier discussions with people I am close to. Things have been pleasantly weird at the home front and work, well, that has been pretty much usual. I guess breakthrough of the week remains a standard feature MashaAllah in which we come to a certain learning and/or crucial opportunity point and move from there. This week there were two such things. As much as I'd like to, you all know I can't disclose such wonderfully juicy entreprenurial ideas now, I might to so when things start rolling for real. Possible scenario would be me asking if you had heard of a certain company and/or a certain execution, and if have, I would be telling you who was behind it. For now though, things will have to wait. Some strange ideas go into peoples minds when they still believe I do nothing. Smack on November 9th, I bumped into an old ex colleague online and the second and third messages I got from her (first one being "heeeyyyyyy!!!!") were "aren't you at offce?" and "what happened to your job??". I don't really blame her, she was out of uni for about just over a year when she got married and was (not to be mean) ignorant enough to not think about how things went by aside from her job. She was even least concerned about how other departments functioned. This, was of course an easy opportunity for anyone to tell her more than she knew and also meant that she would get impressed very easily. Turns out the rest of the gang and I keep telling her once she is head over heels "the guy was nothing special, you are just too easy to impress". Sounds mean of us, I know, but hey, she was like the lil kid at our place and we all took care of her. Fast forward to the present, lets see what the coming week has to say... For now though, I feel a bit lost, for no reason whatsoever....my imagination seems to be on a vacation, and silence seems to prevail all over. Which, i think, is good in a way...no?

Sunday, November 05, 2006

Moving, silently...

Living, breathing, always moving. Moments in life, silent motion, from one end to the other. From there, further deeper into what lays in wait. Mountains, valleys, rivers and barren scapes of the real and the temporal. We keep moving. It is the ever lasting journey that keeps survival possible. We seldom travel alone. Even when we say so and in from the deepest recesses of our heart and mind we feel alone, we are rarely ever never so. There is always someone that walks with anyone and everyone of us, we most often just don't know. We look upto people, those we trust, for knowing and holding our hand and walking us to safety. It is an overwhelming opportunity and seemingly a matter of pride, such challenges at times shaking the very foundations of every shred of self confidence when the task is unfolded. No guidance is simple, no suggestion can be steroetyped, no two people and no two scenarios are the same. When people are looked up to, it is the knowledge and wisdom of such people that comes into question. Professional matters aside, some people have an inherent belief in the ability to fix things and to make them work. Build them for the long journey ahead. Knowledge, ideas and wisdom, are a beautiful symphony spun in the tides of pure inquisition. Some know not, even with years of learning; some know, without opening a single book. All those who know, by whatever means, thorough courses of eons uncounted, share a common fear (for lack of a lighter word) of the being held responsible, not by people, but by guilt of the self. Things must go on, challenges must be faced, care must be taken, the risks are always there. When the job is done, the search for the next quest is never too far. Its just a matter of packing up and moving on, back to the deserts, the infinite wilderness, knowing not what lies in wait. Greek anyone?

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