Sonya Syed

It is a sad moment for me, all is well with family and my health though. Yet I truly feel sad, sad at how complicated simple things can get, sad at how mistrust can shake the walls of your being. People cannot be blamed for their opinions or unwarranted fears, but unfortunately the truth stands there at a distance quietly watching the swiftness with which fears are sinking people in the vast of ocean of mistrust. Have you seen in movies where an innocent person picks up a wounded stranger lying on streets and rushes him to hospital, however, on reaching hospital the police arrests that innocent person on the suspicion of wounding the stranger. That is why when an accident happens on road nobody picks up the wounded person because everybody fears that they will be charged for helping someone. I guess, these are the times of insensitivity and of strictly minding your business, and let everyone be on their own. At some point we need to realize that no one can help anyb

A very very Happy New Year to you and your loved ones.....May God bless you all with all the health, peace & happiness. Many apologies for not being here earlier and especially on the New Year’s Eve but what can one do when life takes you by total surprise and you look at everything in complete awe. First of all, a huge round of applause for all my wonderful MBA students who have made me very proud this semester. All of them have performed beyond my and also their own expectations. Sometimes we should push ourselves beyond the wildest edges of edges and challenge our self-imposed limitations. Only when you break your chains, which limits your creativity then only you would reach your desired heights. In that sense being fearful is a good thing because when you know what your are afraid of, then only you can get the courage to move beyond it....because darr ke agay jeet hai... This semester many of my students feared law and few believed that they can nev

Another beautiful year coming to an end and very soon we shall be entering 2014. I cannot even express in words how wonderful this year has been and how miraculous life has been…. I have seen some amazing things happening in 2013 that it feels surreal, as if I was dreaming all along-but hey I wasn’t. For almost 5 years I have lived with a biggest financial mistake of my life. The guilt of not behaving carefully with money and messing things up almost killed me and then, just few days ago God lifted the biggest burden of my shoulders and miraculously healed my mistake into blessing. Yes, if you pray and have faith you will be given a second chance; a chance where you can rectify your mistakes. Today I am at a full circle moment of my life, I am standing exactly where I was few years ago before I screwed things up. Have you ever seen those movies where the protagonist, the hero, comes back after reincarnation to make everything right but in his next life he is wiser, powe

Yesterday evening as I was returning home I stopped at a signal, it was a long wait and then all of a sudden I saw a soft fluffy hand tapping on the car window. The little hand has lost its colour due to heavy layers of dirt on it.  This tiny hand belonged to an equally small girl who was smiling at me. She is hardly 8 or 9, has a round- slightly chubby face that is only adding beauty to her innocence. We had a barrier of a closed window between us but as I looked at her, she responded with joy in her eyes and a big smile on her face. She thought that I would give her some money, oh..did I forget to tell you that she was one of our regular beggars. I didn’t give her any money although I wanted to but something stopped me, rather we communicated by only our face expressions. Then as the signal went green she beaconed, that we will talk more tomorrow, same time – same place. I thought to myself, what are these children doing on streets? They should be under the love

Mistakes could be a powerful tool of transformation and change if you really want to become a better version of yourself. There is no point in making a mistake if you are unable to learn from it.   I am learning and definitely want to do better this time. About a month ago, I have met some ladies who jolted my sense of self. My confidence, my belief, even my self image was shaken, in other words my ego was bruised. I was filled with anger and wanted to react in the same manner or even worse. Yet I controlled my impulse to react and the first and most important thing which I did immediately after those interactions, was to be continuously grateful for their happening. Although initially I didn’t knew what could be the magnificent outcome of such stupid incidents but still I continued with my practice. Then I saw these lines and everything changed, ‘ In every interaction which we have in this world we are either learning something or teaching something or something is