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...

It was a beauty to behold and remember for decades to come! BDNEWS24.com link

The clock does not stop ticking for anyone (unless you take the battery out, or if the battery dies). :)

The Daily Star link Date of publication: Sept. 9, 2015 I first came across the word, Amish, in one of the volumes of Nancy Drew mystery stories series some 20 odd years ago. At that time, I knew nothing about the Amish and who they are. As I became older I read about them on the Internet at various times; I even watched several episodes of a reality TV show called “Breaking Amish” a couple of years ago. In short, the Amish and their lifestyle had intrigued me and I always wanted to see first-hand what the life of these simple people is like.  The Lancaster County of Pennsylvania is home to some 30,000 Amish people; it’s a major tourist destination for those who want to experience the Amish way of living. Pennsylvania is also the oldest Amish settlement in America. The Amish are a group of Anabaptist Christians, who believe in the baptism of adults, not infants. Amish, who confess their faith, are baptized again as adults -- the word ‘ana’ means, again. An Amish, who transg...