Define life ...
It's 2:46 and I am still up drinking coffee and trying to summarize this closed-book facts list for my final tomorrow.
I remember a line I read somewhere; life is what happens while planning for other things ... but wat if one can't see anything but wht he is planning for ... is he alive?
To be able to touch your dream is awesome ... but what if being obssesed with a dream makes my life miserable. Is there a line where it's better to give up? Is it even given in? I don't think it's appropriate to call it a 'give up.' In engineering and flying this line can be defined and characterized by numbers. We can obtimize for it.. solve some calculus ... get a number and decide ... but in life .. we can't do tht!
Somehow, someppl confuse me with the absolute stereotyped engineer image. I claim to not be. I claim that I have mastered the skill of knowing when to stop walking to a class to observe the beauty of a bird singing, squirls fighting each other, or in a very lucky day, lying down on the grass and enjoy the weather.
I utterly believe in that statment ... It doesn't even contradict the islamic understanding for life. Everything we do is dedicated to please Allah swt and seeking admission to paradise. and I think it's funny, that somehow we can be sleeping and gaining in reward ... so .. everything and anything counts, and we are encourged to balance ourlives.
ok .. enough rambling for tonite .. The Pilot has a final to fail ...
1 comment:
hah - your comments reminded me of something I wrote in high school...
GIVE UP!
Are you facing one of those days,
When the sky is black and the clouds are grey?
When the world around you is moving ahead,
Leaving you behind, alone in your dread?
If you put in your best and failed,
If you’re the victim, whose dreams have been nailed,
Don’t curse your luck or wish you were dead,
“Just Give Up”, as somebody rightly said.
Just Give Up, it’s not so hard,
Your confidence, at least, will not be scarred,
Don’t think that you will lose your glory,
You can still be a Winner in your life’s story.
Courage, they say, is holding on,
Fighting in the darkness, till it is dawn.
But it takes courage to let go too,
And stand outside that ambitious queue.
If the tunnel is dark and you see no light,
If the battle you’re in is not going right,
Give up and go against the tide,
Break the rules, and hop off the ride.
Because he who fights and runs away,
Lives to fight another day.
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