Sonya Syed

To be or not to be... William Shakespeare's Hamlet. No please, I am not going to get into any intellectual stuff. It’s just that these words keep coming into my mind, for reasons unknown, my English class and the teacher and the elementary school are all roaming in my mind these days. It is strange that I am even dreaming my school, the place where we used to have our art classes, the Montessori classes. It all seems so real that if I want I can probably touch those images. Brain and its memories are indescribable phenomena they take to the journeys where you once had been. However, I have to say there has to be some solid reason for such wanderings or else this could be simply the result of an empty mind. Me and my stories...Anyways Ramadan is   just around the corner and we have already started to see the chaos and panic on the main avenues of the city. I always fail to understand what is in this Holy month that makes people odd, what is there that everyone se...

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 ...