Peace Talks And Convocation

 

Hello Beautiful Souls!

Hope finding peace in your days despite  all the trauma brought to the world by politicians and capitalists.

Our country Pakistan has taken pride in leading the peace talks between America and Iran. Being Pakistani it has strengthened our faith in our homeland!  Despite the rumours China is main force behind this process,but still it makes me feel nice about it. Just hope that both countries agree on some deal which benefits them equally 🤞 Needless to say that such fights over power and resources have nothing to do with common people of both countries who want peace and peace only .

It’s been raining throughout the country (excluding our areas 😏) . Northern parts ,higher areas particularly are still getting snow which is unlikely in this month. Our Sindh province is receiving pleasant affect of the whole scenario but no rain predicted in future near. It’s 12 pm and temperature is 39 centigrade already,you can use your imagination for the rest of the day.

On positive note, elder son shared few glimpse of their rehearsal for convocation expected in the first week of June . This makes me wonder how quickly time flies by!

      When elder  son visited for Eid about a month ago, we got some very nice moments together by the grace of God! He had been visiting home once in a while in these three years and some months and being a mother I have been noticing how he went through the transition caused by time and his personal experiences with everything he has been going through. Thank goodness it feels positive. Despite he is still unable to do time management for better lifestyle and more progress in his studies, I feel really grateful that he made this fat without giving up. Elder son faced a health issue regarding his heart threatened by some certain type of flu! We were lucky to found about it accidentally by the doctor who was treating his cough and flu when he was hardly ten . Doctor advised hubby to go to the specialist for the further investigation. After tests it was confirmed that elder son had certain flu hidden in the body which can cause severe attack to his heart threatened! An injection was recommended which elder son supposed to take for until he was eighteen. He went through this medication for four to five years. Hubby told the injection was very painful and elder son would suffer for sometime.  Finally the treatment was completed by the grace of Allah and elder son ‘s health improved slowly afterwards🙏🥹🙏

  

Enjoying the  sweet and sour curd in the restaurant with friends, he told that it’s the curd parlour , it’s new thing to me actually because I know only the ice cream parlour 

When he was admitted in best university of the country suggested by his elder brother, we knew that studies were going to be hard . But we always encouraged him to never feel pressured because he is most important to us and everything else is secondary. But he kept walking slowly towards the target and now he has three months left to complete his graduation 🥹

We are happy he tried whatever he could 🥰  extra two months till August are for his project completion which he had postponed to pick another other subject in second semester.  Then he will be home hopefully 🙏♥️

I am waiting for the August desperately so I can make him eat homemade food instead of food of hotel and restaurants!

This is for now dear friends. Thanks for bearing with me till now. 

Health,peace and happiness to you all and to all you love ♥️🙏

Happy Mother’s Day !

 

When we observe the nature and universe we see two kinds of behaviour dominant in every creation. We humans have named both according to our understanding of them . We call constructive side of the nature  God or Love . Nothing is possible without God or love because everything our eyes can see is result of its consistent and nonstop creativity. We can’t see God or love but we can feel it’s presence in everything that we find existing around us. Everything that tends to take shape, adjusts itself to harmonise with others in order to form something meaningful reflects that Creative Force behind it God or Love!

In my life I often contemplated on how God or Love are present in our life. I remember when this thought came to my mind I was looking at my mother’s face . A face around which my being seemed to rotate ,  A face that had worries all about us  and how well we were taken care of. 

That was very cold day of the last week of November. We ran out of woods for the clay stove . The rain had just stopped. My mother wanted to take advantage of this break so She got out of the room and climbed up the nim tree standing in our front yard. It wasn’t safe to climb on wet tree and she knew that. But she chose to climb up because her children needed heat to survive severe cold of northern Pakistan. That day I could not resist staring at her face . In those moment I realised how our lives were completely dependent on our mother for survival. And that how fortunate we were that she was a strong woman with super natural powers almost. When mom was cutting branches of nimtree that had lost its leaves already ,I stood below the tree ,afraid of the thought what if she falls down. That worry drained my energy until I heard my mother saying “ ok we got woods enough for one to two weeks now”  she threw her ex on the ground away from me and started to get down slowly. It was unique day for me because I had seen my mother climbing on tree for the first time! 

When we picked up wood and came to room my mind stayed in awe of what happened there that day. My mother had arranged wood despite she had fever and flu !

That night my eyes shed few tears on my pillow,I was sad ,I was happy, I was grateful and proud at the same time. I couldn’t sleep until I got up , picked up my notebook and wrote a poem in honour of my dear mother 🥹♥️

This was first time when I realised how God shows his love to his people. And I realised that most powerful proof of his love is a mother! She construct and create us within and then with her partner she look after us and provide us. She is true reflection of God and Love ! Because her children are her first priority no matter what.

Hats off to all the amazing beautiful mothers out there 🥹🙏♥️

This was taken by hubby’s eldest brother on my engagement day,my mother was suffering with tuberculosis at that time and was under treatment,her fear of loosing her life made her decide to get me married in case she didn’t survive. I have received an appointment letter of government school teacher after a week hardly,but mom was worried about the unjust behaviour of my brother and his wife so she didn’t let me join job . My job was our common dream that she sacrificed over my safety and self respect!

Happy Mother’s Day To You ♥️

Thank you for being with me till the end dear friends! 

May God keep you safe and blessed always 🙏♥️

Thankful To Have My Space Back My Coulrful House

Hey lovely people! 

Our construction work has finished finally  :) So I can have my space back thankfully! 

Despite we knew that painting house won't be a  good idea as  walls still seems drenched from inside and for long lasting paint Walls must be dried fully but as you know that we are expecting our kids in December so it seemed necessary to refine the environment of our house so they can feel at home instead in some old hunted place . Because of hubby 's choice of different colours for each room house looks like dollhouse more than mine lol but I am happy to have little different theme as well.  

    This was light purple colour for whole house (boring ,I know)  but it remained to veranda only. 

      I found this beautiful and comforting to eyes

Hubby agreed for painting light purple in living room as well but afterwards he found it too light and switch to oil paint from distemper which is darker . This image is taken around 1 pm so sunlight sharpening it as pink 

   These two photos are captured at night so you can see  it is looking elegant and tranquil. I liked it and I think my younger son will be happier to find paint he recommended once

 

Today  when  I went up saw some intriguing patterns at the sky .I stared at them while taking evening walk  (missed my walk most) 

    And when sky dimmed after while I said my evening pray. This is priceless sense to have some divine force along. We have choice of life with or without faith. I feel utterly grateful that i choose faith because none of the other can give true piece of mind and soul! 

Thank you for kindness you all share! 

See you soon. God bless you All!

Why Would Bride Hide Face In Olden Days

 

Hey Sweet Souls!

Hope trying to make existence beautiful in the light of your wisdom:)

Few of you may be felt curious why bride looks serious and why she had to hide her face in veil ?

I just while ago asked same to the Google. There were many replies but I cancelled  the search due to lack of time before I check further details. 

Let me tell you through my personal  observations and  experience as i belong to era when the tradition was followed regularly in my village. 

There were many interesting customs for all wedding events that would display enthusiasm ,humour and happiness of both parties. I will leave rest for another time and talk about the  "face hiding " tradition by the bride only. Among all I found this most fascinating and intriguing. I had many girl cousins to whom I got chance to be a wedding friend.  Bride and Groom had to be  put on rest  weeks before their wedding start. For two weeks groom and bride would be treated by family and friends as "special " people. Both would be given seven wedding friends that would stay with them until the last day of the wedding. Those friends could be their same old friends. But if old friends are less than seven more wedding friends would be added to complete course.  Those friends of bride and groom would assist them in each work .In other words the friends would try hard to save both parties from exposure or tiredness or any mental stress that common routine of life can bring. 

Bride would be separated from common portion of the house under excessive use and is kept in some corner room where only seven of her friends can see her including female family members.  I remember how much I enjoyed those long fun nights when we all girls would talk and laugh, beat drum ,sing and dance when party was over late night in other parts of house  one of friend would accompany the bride even to bathroom (outside of course). Meanwhile bride would mostly keep her face behind long veil of her shawl. 

Back then I just enjoyed all that never thought what and why. Bride 's face would remain hidden until she would join her husband. Thought female family would see her glimpse once she is ready to leave. 

But now when I try to ponder on this I feel that behind all these traditions was purpose to give both parties time to take break from usual daily chores and relax so they can revive their mental energy to face new journey of life.

I miss how specially girl was treated back in olden times. She was not mere piece of flesh or body but her personality reflected purity, divinity ,grace ,dignity ,live ,patience and sacrifice. A chain in which whole family is beaded so beautifully. Her wisdom was light for all living around her.Her strength was source that would empower whoever got close to her. Yes I consider myself lucky that i could witness some beauty of old lifestyle. A girl when was supposed to leave her parents house in orderto join new family and a new man as husband. She is given time to secure all her inner strength beauty and purity before.  To achieve the certain level of this bride is kept in comparatively dark room where even sun hesitate to look at her as he may not dim the sacred glow of her face . I think old people believed that such dwelling would create a   exceptional glory around her personality that would charm the groom when he would remove the veil first time. Just like a halo around moon add fantasy and little mystery to the beauty of moon.

I hope I could share what I wanted to dear friends. 

See you soon.  Blessings to you and to all you love precious people!