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My Two Cents

Allhumdolillah! I am at a much better place since my last post with series of lab tests, utlrasounds, a mammogram and some other really scary tests, and a gut wrenching anxiety of results. I am doing well thankfully everything was clear except low iron levels with vitamin d3 deficiency. These deficiencies are now on their way to recovery. It is worth noting that I have been struggling with intense brain and physical fatigue since 2019 but not a single doctor was able to identify my problem. Once somebody is diagnosed with depression or anxiety then every health issue they complain about is looked from the psychological lenses. Nobody asked me to check iron, vitamin b12 or vitamin d3 deficiencies even my mum who is a dermatologist always assured me that I am fine and this weakness is just a phase.   It was a phase alright, it engulfed almost 8 years of my life pushed back my career and research ambitions.  This is not the case alone with me but there are many people who silentl...

Love

This week has been pretty busy so there is a bit of tiredness which is of course lessening the work capacity. Today I took off from all the activities, planned to relax and kill time. Sometimes I think it is wise to do nothing because there is an exceptional beauty in nothingness. Ramadan are going perfectly, better than they were expected to be due to the heat and long hours of fasting. What we feared the most has become so easy for us to experience, even the sky-rocketing prices of food items are somehow becoming tolerable for a common man. Truly there is some Divine force for Whose Magnificence we all shall remain indebted for an eternity, He Who gives us the strength to move on or else life would become an unbearable burden. There is some strong inclination within to write about love . What is this strange phenomenon “Love” that all Religions, Prophets, Sages and scholars have so ardently preached and practiced?   To us love has been limited to the affections and care...

Unnecessary burdens

Today I followed the forgiveness mantra that I wrote about so ardently in my yesterday’s post “ Different Perceptions ”.   I thought there is no harm in practicing myself whatever I am indirectly preaching. So today was my first day and I had some interesting feelings. There are couple of people with whom I had a bit of rough experience. So in the morning I sat down took their names and prayed for their peace, welfare or whatever I could think of. Surprisingly more and more names and faces began to emerge in my mind with whom I have had some negative experiences at some point in my life. I was shocked to realize that I have been holding grudges with quite a few people when I falsely believed that I had forgotten and forgiven them. As I was praying for them, in few moments I felt as if a dark huge stone with black smoke moved. I immediately thought that something happened with them but then I realized that nothing happened with them. In fact what happened is that the h...

Different perceptions

What a day its been heard some painful news from different quarters, I hope God bless them all with peace, safety and health. Maintaining one’s peace amidst of challenging situations becomes a challenge in itself. When you hear any of the spiritual teachers speak they would say that one’s peace is more of an internal matter independent of any person or situation. There can be tears in your eye but in the background it shall always be peace, and ultimately that inner peace takes over the apparent sadness. It takes time and lot of practice with patience to achieve this state of being though. Yesterday I heard my favorite spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson speak on OWN TV with Oprah about some deep spiritual matters. Two things that fascinated me the most. Marianne spoke about forgiveness and how it negatively affects us if we keep a grudge or anger against somebody. Even though that person had hurt us in some way or took advantage of us or deflected our love....