Education brings me in Heaven

               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 everything about the world. People who never knew the reason of their own existence told me everything about the lives of other people. Likewise, people unaware with the meaning of the word 'politics' abused politicians and people who never dared to hold a bat criticized cricketers. And I--- I listened... I listened patiently!

                 "What madness! In today's materialistic world, you have opted English literature as your major subject. You are single student in the whole college studying that subject. Forget the marks, you won't be able to score good marks."

"Is it really necessary to play that marks-marks game? I simply don't need marks. My life is not cheap and mediocre so as to get influenced by some worth-less numbers" I would say.

"Why are you planning to study further, why don't you apply for a job? Look, that guy is earning twenty thousand per month by doing a grade-4 job"

"My life is not for sale, and even 1 lac per month can't tempt me to compromise my life. Money is a need I agree, but there are thousands of other methods of making money, of them one I've opted and it's enough for me. When time comes, I'll definitely look for a job, which my heart would permit me to do, and my heart's choice is not a grade-4 job, that too in my teenage" I would say.

               Allah has always bestowed me with what I've asked for. Living in Lahore and studying at Punjab University was a dream I saw way back in 2017. As usual, Allah fulfilled my dream now in 2019, what I did was a little hard work in those two years. 

So I've started to live life --- LIVE ---- LIFE. A life where marks don't matter at all. A life where you can do what you want to do, no one will stop you. Highly qualified teachers teach here. They don't teach you the methods of scoring high marks, they teach you how to live your life, how to make an impact in this world, they groom you from head to toe. In my new life here, there are lot of professions you can choose, not only two, Medical & Engineering.

                People are afraid actually. They are even afraid of dreaming. But I dared to dream, worked for it, and now I'm living it, and you can never imagine how lovely it is to live your dreams. After the rain today, when class ended, and I, with bag on my back, eyes on the cloudy sky, mic in the ears, far away from this world, returned to my hostel, dancing with joy as I passed in front of Haily College of my university, I felt transported to some other unknown land, transported to HEAVEN. Would life be always like that? I wish it might have been, for there's only pure happiness in it.

               "Forgot me? Again? Why don't you include me in your plans? Why do you always forget me in this short-lived happiness?" Something black speaks to me.

"What thing are you? Tell me I say"

"DEATH" it whispers in my ear.

"O you cheap, wretched black thing, you are again here. But why? Why do you always interrupt me when I'm so happy?" I ask it.

"To remind you of the littleness of this life." It says.

"I'm well aware of this fact. But why do you always come to me? I'm not ready yet to die." I tell it.

"Of all the unaware people who daily become my victims, not a single person was ready to die." It says.

"But I hate you, you cursed thing, you make a lot of people weep everyday." I say to it.

"My time is fixed and I'll meet you at that time" it says.

"I can't deny this fact, but go now. Let me LIVE this short life. I'll not waste it by doing some unimportant job, but I'll try to make it as memorable as I can, I'll try to make impact, so that when you take me with you, people can remember me and I go fully satisfied with you" I say to it.

"See you soon." It vanishes.

              I know soon it will come to me, life is very short. But then again it depends on you that how much bigger things can you achieve in this smaller time-span of life. I've already decided. I've already decided to LIVE the LIFE. To never listen to people living around me. Now it's time for you to decide. It's YOUR LIFE. LIVE it in your own way. Because it's purely YOURS. One day, like me, I promise, YOU will also feel yourself to be in a HEAVEN.

                 

              (Awais Babar)

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