Pain...!!!

Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'pain' as "a strongly unpleasant bodily sensation such as being caused by illness or injury".

Where as Wikipedia tells me that it is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage."

Let me cut-it-out. Enough of these boring definitions. Rite?

I read it somewhere that "Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you alone, then it is MADNESS or INSANITY."

v     Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. -- C.S. Lewis

v     A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe the doctor gave it a slight blow. The mother must have thought the doctor cruel. But he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual lungs. But through suffering God strikes us in love. Then our lungs expand and we can breathe and pray. --Sadhu Sundar Singh

v     If you suffer, thank God! -- It is a sure sign that you are alive. --Elbert Hubbard

v     Adversity introduces a man to himself. –Unknown

v     Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you respond to it. – Unknown

v     Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. --Emmet Fox

v     Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. --Charles Dickens

      I say: These are some of the very strong & influential individual's sayings (derived from their own experience) about 'PAIN'. Now why do we have to believe in them since we ourselves had tasted the 'sweetness' of pain through out our lives & still do not know how long we may have to continue tasting it. Where does it come from - where does it take us - how to overcome it...??? 

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      Where does it come from:- as 'they' say scientifically, is it an electrical signal interpreted by our brain caused from an outcome of a definite action happened at a particular interval of time in a specific circumstance...???

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    Where does it take us:- from the present level of maturity & self-understanding to a higher level of the same...???

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     How to overcome 'PAIN':- it is purely my understanding & you are completely free to differ. In Islam we have been told to believe in Al Qadar – The Divine Preordainment – which is the 6th Pillar of Iman (firm belief) – It says: "All good things (Khair) & bad things (Sharr) comes from a single source - God, the Almighty - whom we call but in different names as GOD, Allah, Father of the Son, Yeshwe, Brahma, supreme being, cosmic energy, ultimate level of consciousness, etc. 

      Those who believe the things happening to them (whether it be good / bad) is due to a specific reason, blended with a very definite purpose, filtered with the purest form of hope; No action can cause them Pain & no Pain can reach their inner soul...!!!

Tears... Cry of a Soul...!!!

They Say, "A poet - is someone who stands outside, in the rain, hoping to get struck by the lightning"

I do not know whether the above is right or wrong since I am no-Poet-by-myself. But what I do know is this guy next door, a wonderful friend, talks non-stop about anything & everything under the sky, the author of these mesmerising lines:

Tears...

A lonely tear fall from the eye,

Sliding down a cheek,

Eyes to chin it trickle by,

Finding a spot to make its bed,

To where its journey ends,

There it stays. A meaningless drop…

No-one who loves it, and No-one who cares,

Until it is greeted from the top,

By another stream of tears,

It finds. It is not meaningless at all,

As long as it has friends

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Cry of a Soul...!!!

I lay here in the dark,

Arms wrapped around me tight, but they are my own,

I feel not the warmth of another,

I feel no love,

I miss my Mother, I miss my Father,

I miss my Beloved, I miss my Love,

I am broken inside,

I am lost with no place to hide.

I am alone each and every day,

I lay here broken, my body so numb,

I call, I cry out for help, but nobody would come,

I am in a new world; I know not how to survive,

I am dead and yet am alive,

Do I play a son? Do I play a husband?

I don’t know how to live this new life,

I am not a child, but I am not grown,

So I lay here Alone and Alone.

Zaheer Mahmood

Trip to As'Seiffah.

A long-silent-twisting drive. That was all I wanted on the dark-skied day of 21st Jan, Friday. Thanks to Zaheer who took me to "As'Seiffah" - a place 25-30 kms inside from Yiti Beach - & the drive was coooooolllll...!!!

Actually the plan was to feel the ups & downs of the river-side roads where Zaheer had been before many times. But on the way we had a change in plan since we met this guy (a Balushi Omani - name Anonymous) & his indian girlfriend who wanted us to join them on their trip to "Samakk" (a special sea-viewed restaurant serving exotic fishes & located in As'Seiffah).

We weren't having any special plans & what we had planned before was very limited, which made us to say "Yes. Why not?" & the trip went out real fun. Especially the 'scenes' created by our friend with couple of localites. The situation really got heated up when this 'guy' bashed his car on another localite Omani's car & then we got surrounded by many. I saw Zaheer's forehead getting sweat in between the 'scenes' while trying to melt the ice though I was busy studying the people & taking couple of pics. (yeah... I know what you are thinking now...!!!) 

They say, pictures 'speak' eloquently than words. I hope you guys will enjoy the same:

Ruwi High-Street. Hardly we get to see this (otherwise a thick-packed) street so deserted.

 The very best Samakk Restaurant.

Rain Drops getting ready to split the sky asunder.