Sunday, February 22, 2009

Friendship, Name of the mutual need

Friendship is considered the strongest and powerful relation. I am not talking about the friendship of Male + Female, Male + Male or Female + Female, but I am talking about the all above mentioned forms of friendship. Mostly, it is considered that friendship is above all the relations. Friends are closer than brothers, sisters, children and parents. In short, friendship is the name of most superior relation. It might be so, but just in rare cases.
Mostly, some groups can be observed sitting on a big coat, playing cards, with the laughters on their faces, schools and colleges are the major institutes to find friendship. Life is incomplete without friendship. So, one can say, life is noting and meaningless unless you don’t have any friend.
Now, the question arises, which are the elements working behind this “Pure Relation” called “Friendship”.
1. In earlier ages, most of the persons, involves in such activities which they can’t share with there blood relations. For Example, relations with opposite sex, smoking in earlier age, fraud etc. So, to share the achievements in these departments friends are required.
2. In the Middle age, when people become practical, and has responsibilities of their families, they use “Pure Relation” to solve their matters, to get befits for their own, they use “Friends” and this exchange of using friendship continue from both sides. This type of friendship is one to one friendship. Do my work and in return I will do your job.
3. In old ages too, friendship continues. Now when the old people have much more sensitive hearts. They feel much, whey they have to face the bitter words from their own family members, they seek refuge under the shelter of friendship. So, they gathered, talk about their sacrifices, they done for their children, and in return what they earned.

So, in the light of above mentioned points, friendship is noting but just the name of need, there is no sacrifice without any purpose, there is no attraction without mutual interests, in short friendship is noting but a needed passion or relation. If someone needed a friend, then he will look for his/her personal gains. Otherwise, there is no need of friendship.
But we have the examples of too old friends. Friends who can not eat without each other, who can not join any party without the presence of other and who claimed one soul in two bodies. What is it? Are they really too much lucky to have a real friend or there is something else? It may be so that both are truly pure friends but even in that case, they too have some mutual interests and booth are needed for each others.
They could be trusted for each other and have loot of things/secrets to share.
They could be involve in different occupations and solve each others matters regarding to their field.
May be they have the same opposition and they have to be friends to face the opposition jointly.

In short, there will need of friendship but pure friendship is that which has no need from one or both sides. Friendship should be on the based of true emotions and not based on mutual needs. But if you find difficulty or impossibility to search for a pure friend then try to bring your friendship close to the pure friendship, at lease from your end you should not look your friend with needy eye, at least you should built your relations of friendship without any benefit or favor from the other side. And more important friendship must have limits and one should never cross those limits or boundaries.
According to me, the definition of a true friend is as “After my departure of this world, the persons those will pray for me, will be my best true friends”

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Mr. Sajjad Ahmed, The Common Character

When you leave home early in the morning, you will find that the entire city is along with you, the purpose is same, to seek earning for you and your family. Everyone looks in routine hurry. And you can easily find the stress on their faces, except some exceptional cases. Specially, the people who are going to office, look depressed. They will look to watch again and again while standing on signal or other traffic jam cases.
When they reached office or workshop, they find there Mr. Sajjad Ahmed; the most senior employee or worker of that organization. He looks relaxed and cheerful as compare to the other staff. Soon the boss calls him, he goes in his room and then returns after briefing the concerned matters. Then he briefs the staff about the Boss’s intensions, mostly not good about the staff. After it, Mr. Sajjad Ahmed sits on his chair, will give some comments on politics, and his personal achievements. Everybody will agree with him in all the issues and matters. Mostly, the staff looks angry with him internally but shows too much loyalty. Why it happens? Who is Mr. Sajjad Ahmed? Who is right, Mr. Sajjad Ahmed or his Colleagues? I don’t know, but I try to write points of thinking from both sides.
First, I will introduce Mr. Sajjad. He is the most senior employee/worker among his staff, having ability to handle even the worst situation and major faults done by him or by his colleagues. Entire works and matters are on his finger tips. He can do that job just in ten minutes which others perform in one hour. He is full of confidence, fully aware with his skills. His attitude could be rude and authoritative. He has been proved himself a hard worker in past. He did all sort of assignments, still aware of work with all departments. Now, he is little lazy, because he has assistants to whom he can get work. Now, he only orders from his seat and others have to obey him. Big Boss calls only him in important matters, he is trusted person or Boss has to trust on him. In short, as Operating System works like a bridge between Hardware and Software, Mr. Sajjad too works like a bridge, a source of communications between upper executive class and the lower staff of him.
The majority of Mr. Sajjad’s colleagues seem unhappy with Mr. Sajjad and if I look him with the eyes of his colleagues, I can not see any good characteristic. According to the colleagues of Mr. Sajjad, he does not work, just comes in office and then sit on his seat. He only issue commands and orders and he himself does nothing. Most of the time he spend to solve his personal matters. He shows rude attitude towards them, and worst, Mr. Sajjad plays a very vital role to uplift of throw down the employee/worker’s status in the higher authorities. And he does only in the basses of his personal liking and disliking.
Now, if I come to the other side Mr. Sajjad has too his justifications. According to him, he has spend the golden part of his age in just one organization. In his earlier times, he faced too many hardships and has faced the character of Mr. Sajjad of that time. He has done all jobs with full devoted heart. He lost the golden part of his age just to achieve the title of “Mr. Sajjad” and as reward, he deserves some relaxation. Again, he covers the mistakes of his colleagues and presents good image to upper class. In short, according to Mr. Sajjad, he provides shelter for his colleagues and in return if he has to be rude sometimes, its his right.
In the end, its up to you, to conclude that who is right? Colleagues of Mr. Sajjad or he himself.

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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Observe the Observers

Zoo is a park or an institution in which living animals are kept and usually exhibited to the public. It would not be wrong if we call it the park for children. It looks full on the Sunday, the weekly holiday and during the other public holidays, one has to wait for long time to enter in the zoological garden. Majority of people went there to amuse their children. It would not be wrong if I said that Zoo is favorite place among the children and young ones. But the favorite animals keep on changing with the passage of time. In the earlier ages, children like monkey then lion and elephant etc. But as soon as the young ones enter in teen age, their interest develops in the animals without cage. Perhaps now they become more courageous and now they lost their interest in the innocent animals, behind the bars. Now they prefer to gaze the animals without cage, openly walking and offering themselves for exhibition.
Most of the animals are imported, only few belong to Pakistan. But the local animals feel inferiority complex. So, they try to copy the actives of imported brand. Doing so, they lost their charm and simplicity. And those animals present the funny look to their visitors.
“Popcorns” are not allowed to offer the animals publicly but this practice is continued. Now, there are two classes of visitors. One is that, which can afford the popcorns. They tempt the animals by showing popcorns to capture their attention, and the second class just amused to see this practice of offering and accepting the popcorns. They just watch this drama with the laughter on their faces and commenting that it is the game for rich class because animals have only one interest, “Popcorns”. Some naughty persons throw empty packing bags towards the animals and earn their anger.
So, the animals behind the bars also get amusement to watch the practices of animals out of the bars. And as we have a circle of life, same way we have circle of entertainment. In the earlier ages children get pleasure to see the activities of animals behind the bars and when those children put step in teen age, animals from behind the bars amused to watch their activities.
A connection between human and animal is not much harmful there in zoo because no any horrible encounter expected there due to the interference of public, but if some visitor leads animal towards the Laurence Garden, there are much chances for horrible encounter. Because there are the existence of isolated places, the Eden of hunters. But even in these isolated places there could be the existence of some horrible creature, watching you behind the bushes. So, its warning for both the animals and visitors to don’t spread out of the zoo. It would be harmful for society and if it happens whole the society will present the reflection of jungle.

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Arif Iftikhar

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Traveling by Local Transport

Traveling is a pure source of entertainment among young ones. But now, traveling is losing its charm among young generation and other alternates took place of it. Now most of the young generation likes to entertain themselves with Cell Phones. They spend their all time while chatting, SMS and making Calls. The reason is simple. Call Rates are low, and SMS are mostly free of cost after getting some package. So, its other topic, called “New generation and Cell Phones”. Today we are going to discuss about the traveling.
So, there are two main types of traveling, first within the city and secondly within the country. I will not talk about the upper class because I don’t know much about that, I am from a lower middle class so how the people of our class travel from one place to other, that’s what I am going to write. We use local transport to travel and mostly we find the same inside picture of all the buses.
Ok, I start my journey. If you lucky enough to travel from the starting start of route then you will have to face no problem. You just wait for the arrival of Bus. And as soon as possible you find the bus, rush towards it and sit on your desired seats. I am sure that the bus will fill just within the minutes. And then you will find standing passengers and some of them will not hesitate to sit on your shoulder, if you are sitting. But if you want to enter from the mid of any bus’s route then you will have to be more courageous. Make the full focus on that way from where the bus will give its appearance, as soon as you find the first glance of your desired bus, gather your all strength and step towards the bus yourself. Bus will bow down towards one side (gate side) because the passengers are already hanging with bus’s gate. As soon as bus stops on the stop. Hold your breath and push yourself in the sea of people, if you succeed, you will find yourself, among the restless people. You mouth will have been fixed under the armpit of some solid villager type of person, someone will keep on resisting to pull back his foot which, is under your feet. Some kid is trying to rush towards the gate, because his stop has been left behind. Soon you will settle in that atmosphere. Then you can enjoy your surroundings. You will find majority of students is hanging with the gate of bus, they have just a little support and the entire body is out of the bus. But they are happy, considering themselves as a spider man or superman, they enjoy their adventure. Remaining students are clinging with the grill, which is separating female and male portions of the bus. They are enriching their eyes with a deep gaze across the grill.
Then you will find a dirty faced kid, (who is lucky enough to have a seat with the window) vomiting on the road. All his face up to neck is outside the window, and he is busy to vomiting. His father or grandfather is sitting with is side seat, he is not worry at all. As it is the routine work of his travel. Another old man is standing along them, in his mind he is wishing to make a demand that “take your son in your lap and give me place” but due to the plight of that kid, he could not convert his wish to word. Soon you will feel a heavy hit of an iron pot. A milkman trying to get down the bus, he has 5 or 6 jars full of milk and he is pushing the jars towards the gate. Other passengers are putting pressure on the driver and conductor to move the bus as soon as possible. In haste milkman get down on the road along with his milk jars. As the bus moves he came to know that one of his jar is missing, he rushed towards the bus, soon the conductor throws the remaining jar on the road. Then you will listen some exchange of abuses from both sides (milkman and conductor) and then some passenger will pass comments, some in the favor of milkman and others in favor of conductor.
Suddenly a person starts paying regards to everyone and then he starts amusing the gathering with his own poetry. And after entertain the “Traveling Town” he offers something to sale only in 10 Rs. Which’s actual price is Rs. 100 in the market. Amazing! But it happens. So, start your struggle (to reach to the door) when your destination is three K.M ahead otherwise conductor will throw you out after passing the same distance from your desired bus stop.
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