iHaris Bakhtiar

There are things we will not get. No matter how much we strive. At such times, we have to move on because that thing is not meant for us. That's it. It is an important thing to learn to move on. Sometimes, the best thing one can do is to let go. You can not always have something by loving it more. Longing for it more. Striving for it more.  We need to understand our position in existence and understand that the only option available to us is to wait. Wait not as in time, but as a certain quality. Take a deep breath and wait. Just wait.   When you see the reality of who you are in existence, only then you can wait. -Sadhguru    

You do not always get up and start living your day. For there are days when you have to force yourself to start the day. You have to persuade yourself that it is worth doing. It is worth living. It is worth trying.  Is it important to keep living? Is it important to keep trying? Death is an efficient process. When it comes, it never fails. Always hits the center. When it comes. it comes. When it has to happen, it happens with full efficiency. Life, on the other hand. needs your support. That is why it is important to complete the circle. Look around and do what is needed to be done. Force yourself out of bed, take a deep breath, and take on your day.  Always remember, there is one person who can always love you, who will always listen to you, and who is always your sincere friend. That person is you. So, love yourself. Listen to yourself and always utter good things to yourself. Be your best friend.  If you suffer, it is because of you, if you feel blissful, it is because...

I haven't written any blog for a while, but the lockdown - being locked at home - made me realize a few things. Things worth sharing.  Every time I see all these unread messages on my Whatsapp, I feel saddened and depressed. How we forget people while being busy with our lives. We make our lives complicated first and then start complaining about how occupied we are. I think this is the time everyone, including me, should realize how important and valuable human relations are. Because that is all we have. The only thing that makes us strong. The only love, significance, and joy we can have in our lives is only between us.  Our situation on earth these days shows how weak we are against nature's forces. Grab tight each other's hands and stand against it.  Like all the love we can have is only between us, the only support we can have is from each other.  I am really looking forward to the day when all this will be over. Humans would feel safe and home again on their pla...

This book contains more priceless knowledge than you think it may. You embark on a timeless journey with Stephen Hawking and travel from the time of Big Bang to the present. It is a classic tale of science from Aristotle to Galileo, Newton to Einstien, and many other genius science heroes who contributed to our understanding of the universe. This book expounds complicated concepts like space-time, expanding universe, uncertainty principle, and string theories in a very easy to read and comprehend way. Intriguing questions like "Could time run backward?" and "Why we remember the past, not the future?" are answered. The book made me realize many things, I'll mention a few.  1. We always think about how much scientists know. Well, they don't know very much. (Of course, they know very much more than us) 2. Scientists are the real magicians. They can find the radius of the earth using the shadow of a stick on the earth. 3. Stephen Hawking has a remarkabl...

If I have to add something to my life to make it more worth living, I would add more 'love'. If more, I would add 'freedom'. If more, I would add more 'devotion' to it. Why live an intense life full of love, freedom, and devotion? Because I think this is the only thing that matters at the end of life - how much intense of a life you lived? "Just living isn't enough," said the butterfly "one must also have freedom, sunshine and a little flower." - Khalil Gibran Whenever we think of 'death', everything else we can think of or have ever thought of falls to dust. Everything settles down like dust on road. One second in air and the other on earth. We always seek something that can remain enact in the face of death. Because we are let free, we feel lost and start drawing artificial lines. How hard it is for one to accept the reality of death. It is always hard for us to accept and face the realities. To stare them in the eyes. Ill...

Benazir Bhutto: Daughter of the East is a “deeply moving saga of love, drama, and heroism”. My father being an admirer of the Bhutto family, we were accustomed to listening to the tales of bravery, struggle, and dedication of Bhutto family to Pakistan. When I picked up this book, I didn’t expect it to be so suffused of drama and information pertaining to Pakistani politics and history. The book is not just an emotional story of a brave daughter of Pakistan but a deep insight into Pakistani, as well as international politics, by a person who was part of the game. Benazir Bhutto, born to a well-known and affluent family of Pakistan, went to Harvard and Oxford to receive her education. Meanwhile, her father, back home, became the prime minister of Pakistan. The then COAS - Gen. Zia - took over the country, established a Martial law, and executed her father due to the fear of his public support. This was the turning point in her life when she was thrust into the game of politics by the ...