Restlessness....

Another week spent in different cities...thankfully only 2 this week so not so hectic. The worrying thing is that room service can now predict what I would want to have when I call....this is a clear indication that I'm spending way too much time outside home. Not that I mind always...but like I said previously...it's just a constant feeling of restlessness.

This time I learnt quite a bit about this one person....I learnt about this person's priorities and aspirations and how they can be troublesome in the long run. I've been in one situation where misplaced priorities resulted in complete disaster....so why am I willingly walking into another one? What is it that stops me from walking away? I really don't understand it....

Adapted cruelty

I don't like being cruel and mean....but I guess there are times in our lives when we have to be as stones. There are times when we must be the epitome of what we despise because being anything else means we are in the long run hurting someone. I feel bad that this situation arose because I was too 'que sera sera' about everything and too worried about what I would do or say and now I have to be this aweful and harsh person in order to suppress any feelings developed by misunderstood intentions.


Why is it that when you don't seek any attention you get loads of it?

An epic journey

There are days when you wake up hardly realizing that they would be ones that would take you on epic journeys. I had one of those over the weekend....

I was scheduled to come back to my home city (Karachi) from a smaller city in another province (Multan). I checked out of the hotel at 8am and got to the airport only to find that the airport is closed on account of some official VIP visit to the city. Having no flights out till 2 days later, my only option was to drive all the way to Lahore to catch an evening flight. The drive itself was 5 hours and took me all over Punjab's countryside which was an interesting experience for sure. Getting to Lahore, I find that there is no way into the city due to the power riots and the subsequent blocking of all entry and exit routes of the city. So I had to ditch the rented car and get onto a rickshaw that weaved its way around the back roads of Lahore to get me to the airport. Slightly over a kilometer away from the airport (in visual range) the rickshaw breaks down and so I have to decide whether to wait on the highway for someone to help me or miss the flight since all I had left was 1.5hours to takeoff and I didn't even have a printout of the ticket itself. So I chose a third option and ran across a field towards the airport praying that the airport security guys didn't shoot me thinking I was up to something. They didn't :)  At check in I am told that the Lahore - Karachi flight is now a Lahore - Islamabad - Karachi flight...a full 2 hours more than the scheduled flying time due to shortage of aircraft that day. I was scheduled to originally reach Karachi at 10am and I reached at 10pm...having travelled across an entire province by road and air......a day I will not forget soon :)