Sonya Syed

Wishing all my dearest readers and their loved ones a blessed, peaceful & prosperous Ramadan. May all your dreams come true, may you enjoy the love of your loved ones, may you have all the health… We waited and waited but the moon wasn’t in the mood of showing up so easily, although we knew that clouds were not willing to leave the skies but something inside quite strongly said that tomorrow is definitely going to be the beginning of the Holy month of Ramadan. Once the final decision was announced, then began a series of text messages from near and dear ones. It is such a delightful feeling to experience the connectedness with so many people some of them are not even close relatives. It is definitely a blissful feeling. I have to give my deepest gratitude to all of you for all the best wishes and love you have showered me and my family with. I pray that all of you be blessed with the same love and prosperity. I shall be brief and quick today because its w...

Sometimes it feels good to deliberately keep yourself in fantasy or in false hope; however, when the reality hits you then the obvious outcome is pain and disorientation. Faith in relationships shakes up, and you cannot understand what to do and where to go. This is the time when people run for some sound advice, somebody to tell them that its all going to be fine. No wonder the fake spiritual gurus take the undue advantage of innocent people. Sometimes the problems do get resolve by such attempts but in most cases people have to go through the challenge and only as the time passes one gets peace.     It is during these times that our faith is tried, and everything that one preaches and practices is put to test. Most spiritual teachings say that a man only experiences in life whatever are his dominant thoughts and feelings; but then you ask yourself, is that theory always applicable? Or our destiny is already written? Irrespective of our prayers, good deeds, or po...

The weather is getting beautiful by the hour, if you wake up at 7 or 8 in the morning to feel the breeze and the see the amazing sky you could experience the wonder of life. So today is lazy Sunday but more than lazy it is a tired one, nobody wants to do anything just waste time by becoming a certified couch potato. There was a Julia Roberts movie “Eat, Pray, Love” shown on the cable, other than her I couldn’t find anything interesting in the film, most probably because I watched it from the last part. However, the movie is based on this book Eat Pray & love by Elizabeth Gilbert which is a best seller. Although I haven’t read it yet but its on my list, especially because this book is highly recommended by Oprah Winfrey. If Oprah say it’s a must-read then it becomes my moral duty to read it. All the books that are on my favourite books list are recommended in Oprah shows and I cannot that thank her enough for showing me that invaluable treasure. It is strange how ...