Sunday, February 17, 2008

Life's Action Replay

Friday, 15 February 2008: My Brother calls me in the office and informs me. I immediately leave the office to reach him. My younger brother has forgotten his cell phone at home again and my youngest brother is at home.

All of this is what happened on Friday, 26 October 2008 when my dad left us. I reached the hospital and offered Jumma prayers and at 7:20 p.m. my world went into darkness.

This time it was the same and I made my way to the hospital because of my nani (maternal grandmother) but thankfully she is alive. My nani has been diagnosed with stomach cancer and it is terminal. At one point the doctors just said that she only has a few hours to live. We are all praying that she gets rest either through life or...

Life has suddenly taken so many turns that I just don't know what's happening. Everyone is devastated. My cousin is here from Canada and he is very close to my nani. He is extremely positive about my nani's condition and I can't bear to even think what his reaction would be if...

No one can ever know what its like to lose someone you love unless it happens to them and I pray that it never happens to anyone, ever. I've started to cut off myself from all of my friends whom I am close to because I don't know if I can take any more losses ( I just can't do anything about my relatives). I don't know if its the right thing to do but it seems right. I know everyone has to go one day and that is the biggest reality that there is but still... I don't know, pata nahi kia horaha hai, I just don't know.

I request all of you to please pray for my nani and for us.


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