Sonya Syed

These days I am around with newer generation who are at least 10 or more years younger than me and everywhere I turn I only hear one comment and that is ‘today’s generation is really difficult to handle and the situation is going to get worse with upcoming generations’. Of course every time is different and it is part of the human evolution but the question is what is that one can do to gracefully convey your values to this generation and at the same time get respect from them. I have to say that parents of 20 year olds or less face a real challenge, most of them don’t have a clue of how handle their children. Parents believe that their values and standards should be followed under all situations, while the children are rebellious and have somewhat disrespectful attitudes. I always heard about generation gap but today I can see it more clearly than ever. Parenting is a tough job and children do not come with a manual, although I wish that they were. I am not in ...

Life can sometimes leave you breathless, you run and do your best to hide but where can you hide from yourself . Irrespective of your greatest efforts- in those moments of silence the mind pours forth all that you have kept hiding for so long; your deepest fears, regrets, mistakes all comes into the spotlight. You wonder, why you made those ridiculous decisions because today you are the only one who has to live with the consequences of those decisions. Regret and guilt are the most killing elements. Sometimes what have appeared to be just for fun, contains the power to change the entire course of your life. In your childishness, you disturb someone who has nothing to do with you. There is no excuse for such behaviour if you did that voluntarily. However, in the midst of those guilt ridden memories you realize that if only I ask for forgiveness may be that could bring some ease. And if I am forgiven then this burden could be lifted once and for all. The best way t...

SILENCE...PROTEST....CONDEMNATION ON THE INCIDENTS OF QUETTA & ZIARATH.........

I am intimated and embarrassed due to my friend’s baby boy who is hardly two years old. This baby who is only in this world for less than two years, he cannot even speak properly, and have just learned to walk is operating IPad like a pro. His grandfather asks him to open GEO News on his Ipad and he quickly does that. I wish I could show you the video. What is going on here, where am I living or more appropriately which era do I belong to? I mean this is crazy, even after a year of using a Smartphone I still can’t figure out how to send a business card. Until two months ago I didn’t even know that there is something like viber or whatsapp, it was only after my Acupressure & Reiki professor begged me to install & use these apps I began using this stuff. She said, ‘today even a 70 year old person is far more tech savvy than you’. I was a person who would keep my cellphone miles away from my room on a stand at the dining table in the lounge. If my callers were ...

Budget, budget oh dear budget has arrived. And I must say what a killer it is... Have you ever experienced confusion in feeling your emotions, like when you don’t know that whether you are afraid or worried; anxious or angry. Today I am having that confusion because I have no clue whether I am feeling the heat of this weather or the fear of budget. May be its both, but frankly for the people who have stable income and a comfortable lifestyle can somehow bear this burden. Nevertheless, millions of people in this poverty stricken country are living in dire circumstances, with no hope of any betterment. Would they be able to handle this humongous financial pressure? In the midst of extremely fragile law and order situation in the country electricity, food items and basic necessities of life are already beyond the reach of a common man; and now with this new budget I fear that their survival is threatened. We seriously need a miracle. So lets pray that this moment of ...

Sleepless nights, muscular cramps, sudden anxiety pangs, lack of energy due to under-eating & insomnia, with your mind at one place and the heart in another and to top it all- is always feeling that there is something more to give in the relationship. Commonly these symptoms would indicate two things, either a psychological condition or falling in love. But who knew until yesterday that teaching two classes of MBA would do this to me. Yes for past 4 months I couldn’t sleep or eat properly and that is also the main reason behind my vanishing from the blog for longer periods. And it was only yesterday when I submitted the results for both of my classes I realized that all these months of such immense responsibility changed everything for me. I suddenly realized that unconsciously I have become a parent to all my students and like a mother I am constantly worried for their careers, grades and progress. I have suddenly grown up. Going to take a class seems so ea...