Awais Babar

               Like a bird it wants to fly when we try to prison it in a cage, and like a turtle it very slowly crawls away when we try to make it run faster than a rabbit. It's a curious thing. I'm talking about TIME. Today is 30 September. Exactly a year earlier was my first day in the university. It's hard to believe that it's been a complete year since then. So isn't this past year worth remembering and writing about? It is, my dear, it really is.                I still remember that moment when I entered my classroom for the very first time, frightened, nervous, sat almost on the last chair, nervously looking around, trying to find out what my new classmates look like. Madam Amna was teaching something about Shakespeare but my mind was too perplexed to focus. My first challenge was to accept the hard fact that every class here will be 1.5 ...

              "Dil Beechara" gathered the biggest audience because it was Sushant's last movie, and as the rule of our society goes, people are praised well after they have died. Among this bulk of the audience who watched the movie, only few would have been truly able to grab the core meaning of the movie. As a matter of fact, this movie was an adaptation of John Greene's novel "The Fault in our Stars" which was published in 2012.                That book, and this movie, both deal with the characters that are not normal people, but the ones who are suffering from a certain disease, and that disease is Cancer, which is of course very devastating. The plot of the movie basically revolves around three main characters; Kizie Baasu, a young girl who is fighting thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs; Manny, a young boy whose Osteosarcoma (a c...

"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...