After much fight with the question: ‘what to do in life’, I came to a preliminary conclusion that I should do what I feel is right. I also concluded that in doing what I feel is right, I should not burden myself with time limits and what others think of my apparent eccentrics. So as part of this philosophy, your good self is reading this blog which I setup a few months back. I also setup a home clinic for my wife, who is a skin specialist. In fact, work on that clinic still continues stretching from June of this year. I did some clean up jobs in the house on the way to make this clinic and learned many new things related to construction and interior architecture. Besides this, I experimented and flirted with a lot of ideas like making earth heat exchanger tube, calculation of prayer times with help of longitude and latitude and repairing house electronics. Currently, I am hooked on buying a mountain bike and to explore streets of Lahore.
I have a plan to set up a charity for my late parents. The idea developed in 2008-2009 after my father passed away. Out of the assets he left for two of us i.e. me and my brother, the ever efficient Pakistan Post Office wrongly deducted a lot of Zakat (a muslim charity). To cut short, I mounted a legal challenge, which is now pending before the Lahore High Court in shape of a writ petition. I suspect, I have the post office guys on the rope. The money involved is around Rs. 130,000. I have made a vow that if I win it back, the money (with some extra input) will go into a charity for the needy and poor in name of Allah. You may be thinking why I am sharing this with you. The purpose is to ensure that I stick with my vow and in case lust for money overwhelms me, you should be there to remind me. In any case, and on a serious note, even if I lose the legal battle, I would still go ahead with the plan. Why? Because I feel it is the right thing to do.
Well, “what to do in life” or “what to do with life” can be ascertained by asking the question first “where this life is gonna lead me to”. This one way linear passage through “space time” tunnel cannot be a random walk. Assuming that apes are not our forefathers and we are not a product of theory of evolution, life has to have a meaning and objective. Most people set goals and objective themselves others look up at the divine guidance for that. So doing something in life or with life is important in so far it brings us closer to the realization of that objective or leads us astray. The end result, the point where the trajectory of life would lead us to, is certainly much important that what is done along the path. And our forward movement on the path of time is governed only by some broad principles. Detailed sketch of that ‘movement’ doesn’t matter. “Aankh Ojhal, Pahar Ojhal”. Only an image in our mind is left. That too faded with time. It may be true that life is all about fixing priorities. About what part of life is a mere “time filler” and what is destiny defining………