Awais Babar

"What thoughts are haunting your mind Dani?" Vicky asked while putting his coat off. But Dani made no answer. "You're always thinking, you listen much and speak less. Having two ears and one tongue is a trait of humans which you justify quite well." Vicky said and sat on the sofa in front of Dani. But Dani still said nothing. Rather he stood up and went to the window, and began smoking there. "Tell me Dani, what is it you are pondering about so much?" Vicky asked. "After almost 80 or 90 years, none of us would be alive. The world would be occupied by a new generation of humans who would then think that they will live forever, like we do now." Dani said with a sigh. "Yeah man, we would certainly be part of the history. Quite less time we have got here." Vicky said and stood up and went near Dani who was constantly looking out of window with a cigarette in his hand and smoke in his nose. "Listen to me Dani! Can't you leave th...

              It's said that tragedies and misfortunes often come uninvited, but a lot of things are said and they don't prove right, sometimes, they may do. Jack never tried to indulge in the activity of finding the meaning of LIFE because, according to him, LIFE was only meant to live as it is. Among his many friends in the university, Kitty was a special one who claimed to be his enemy. There was always a constant conflict between Kitty and Jack on almost every aspect of life, and they agreed on the same point very rarely.                  Everything was perfectly settled until the night of 2 November, when Jack saw a dream. He saw in the dream that a woman in black dress pulls him from his right hand and says, "come with me." And a girl in the white dress holds him from his left hand and says, "I won't let you go." And his eyes opened.               He was definitely wo...

              "Can't always LIFE be like this?" I asked her, grasping her left hand more tightly with my right one. "Why do you keep on asking this question again and again whenever you hold my hand?" She asked me. "Because this is the time Ash when I can't feel any of the worries of LIFE. That's why I don't want these moments to end." I said stopping a little. She pulled me forward and said, "Your stopping wouldn't make Time stop. So keep walking. And do u really want a LIFE without any kind of worries?" "Ash you ask silly questions sometimes. Who on earth would not want a life without worries?" I asked her. "And you speak strange things sometimes. If there's no worry in your LIFE, then how would you feel the real happiness?" She asked, looking into my eyes. I hesitated a little and then said, "I don't know Ash, but this ending of everything so early makes me sad. It was morning moments ago, a...

               Cold early morning of late December it was when I sat on the stairs located in front of my room. The window pane of my room wasn't clear due to fog and I couldn't see through it, the reason why I decided to come out and sit on the stairs. And that's actually the case with LIFE, sometimes the fog of circumstances makes our eye wet and we are unable to see the clear picture, that's the moment when we decide, when we decide to come out of our room, to come out of our conventional way of living, not knowing there's too much cold outside, but we still sit on the stairs, we still back our decision.                 "I'll not take care of anyone." I was saying aloud. I was angry with the TIME, ever-running machine which never stopped. "Life's too short to think and care about others. The person who deserves most of my time is myself." My voice was getting louder. "I'll not listen to anybody, I'll only...

               It's uncommonly special when someone comes in your life and its whole course is altered. Long time I waited to come and achieve where I've come and what I've achieved. People have always disliked me, I don't know why. For being a bit different, for living the life in my own way, for not caring about old trivial customs of society that have long ago lost validity, for being liberal, or for whatever reason, they always disliked me. After entering the world of literature, when my mind opened & thinking broadened, it became more difficult for me to survive in that so sophisticated a society where every person is very sharp in identifying others, giving others some counsel and thinking themselves as wisest in the world and all others fool.                People who never in their life saw a school told me everything about education. People who never went to a city other than Bhakkar told me eve...

              Since I've started observing LIFE more deeply, I've been curious to know about the people who have almost lived their life, who are done with the game called life, for they are the people who exactly know it, OLD PEOPLE. Yes, I've been observing them closely. I wonder how one could go on living his life without any goal or purpose. How one could go to sleep with no worry of waking up early next morning to perform some necessary duties.                 I met an old man & asked him to tell me something about life. But an absolute sadness crawled on his face, like I've borrowed something from him. "Nothing son, this life is nothing, all my life I've worked tirelessly and what I've received as a reward is a small bunch of gray hair, a little bit of white beard, a face full of wrinkles, and weakness in my whole body. I have money, but I can't buy time now, the time which is gone, the moments that wil...

               My name is Rumman, and I want to tell u a simple story, my own story. Sometimes I think that this world has changed a lot and, quite obviously, the habits of  the people would also have been changed with the passage of time. I mean who would prefer reading a story today than sharing interesting things on social media. But then i let the ink of my pen deteriorate the paper thinking that a person who has no time for stories has no time for God as well, because God is the best storyteller. Anyway, let's start from the beginning.                It was the class of zoology and the teacher was about to start the lecture. The first thing teacher said was, "I want pin-drop silence in the class." Everybody in the class, and even the window-pane which was producing some faint voices due to the breeze blowing outside, became silent. Such aggressive was the tone of the teacher. At that particular mom...

Heart vs Mind (A review of the Bollywood movie "Love Aaj Kal 2020")                 The society we are living in decides most of the ways according to which we should live our lives. There are very few people who take the risk of challenging the social script. Probably, they are the ones who believe that there exists something which is beyond 'two plus two is equal to four.' Human thoughts are such a dreadful thing. And human psychology, no doubt, is weird. But after watching the movie "Love Aaj Kal 2020", a lot of my questions were answered. Let's discuss the plot and subject of this movie.                Zoe was a young girl with modern ways of living. She was obsessed with one thing, and that was her career. She wanted only to establish her career and thus avoided falling in a serious love relationship with any boy. Actually this idea w...