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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Everyone is a house of four rooms: a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual room. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.
- A House With Four Rooms
You are free and that is why you are lost.
–Franz Kafka
On the interstate of life you rarely reach your destination. In rest-stop after rest-stop, you look for signs of God, or happiness, or just reason enough to get back on the road. But is it not right and fitting that you lose your way? Isn’t such failure itself evidence of the sublime? Granted, the bleary-eyed, caffeine-dazed monotony of the interstate of life may often feel like an endless bad dream. But the roadside wreckage that marks your journey–the discarded quarts of oil, the busted hub caps, the insect bodies splattered on your windshield, the coffee lids scattered at your feet–aren’t these signs that, in a certain way, you have already arrived?
It’s not whether I arrive; it’s how I lose my way.
In order to further bewilder the bourgeois and petty bourgeois (as NFP likes to call all those who oppose Zardari), we now have footage of Presidential Elections in NWFP.
MPs can be clearly seen showing their ballot to powers that be, presumable so that they can take ‘corrective action’ against those obstinate MPs who want to use their own head and conscience in choosing the next president.
Worldwide, balloting is done in secret for a reason – so that they remain impartial and there is no peer\party pressure.
Meanwhile
The Awami National Party (ANP) has accused the electronic media of carrying out camera trick to make news out of a non-issue and to make the “highly transparent” presidential election controversial by showing footages of the NWFP MPAs violating sanctity of the ballot. [..]
Leaders and parliamentarians of the ANP said showing the marked ballot papers during the presidential election was not meant to doubt the loyalty of their colleagues and ruling partners, but a sign of sincerity towards a joint candidate of the ruling alliance and most of the parliamentarians did this for ‘fun’.
Tsk tsk tsk. Shame on the media for highlighting such issues and on bourgeois and petty bourgeois for carrying out ‘unfair and untrue’ character assassination of Zardari by highlighting his hard-earned assets and self-less, people-serving, democracy-loving need for power.
Suckers these enlightened elitists, they dont let us have fun!
See original article at ByZENtine
کٹھن ہے راهگزر، تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلو
بهت بڑا ہے سفر، تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلو
تمام عمر کهاں کوئي ساتھ ديتا ہے
ميں جانتا ہوں مگر تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلو
نشے ميں چور ہوں ميں بھي، تمهيں بھي ہوش نهيں
بڑا مزا ہو اگر تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلو
يہ ايک شب کي ملاقات بھي غنيمت ہے
کسے ہے کل کي خبر تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلو
ابھي تو جاگ رہے هيں چراغ راہوں کے
ابھي ہے دور سحر، تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلو
طواف ِ منزل ِ جاناں هميں بھي کرنا ہے
فراز تم بھي اگر تھوڑي دور ساتھ چلو۱
the road is hard, let us walk a little while
the journey is long, let us walk a little while
who gives a life-time to another
i know, but let us walk a little while
i am intoxicated, and you are not sober
what a delight, if we walk a little while
enough that we have this night
who knows about tomorrow, let us walk a little while
the lamps are still awake in the paths
the dawn is still far, let us walk a little while
we too will walk the beloved’s destination
faraz, if you just walk with me a little while
- Ahmed Faraz ( God Bless his soul)
