A Myth in Creation

George: Callie told me she loved me, I just sat there. I wasn't ready, but now I'm gonna die, and I'll never get the chance to say I love you back. Derek: Do you? Do you love her? George: Maybe. Eventually, I could. One day...soonish... Derek: Soonish. I will love you soonish? [ laughs ] Grey's Anatomy , Episode # 301

'There was no such connection' Parveen Shakir Translated by Professor Alamgir Hashmi There was no such connection between us. Your shoulders held up no roofing. I guarded no courtyard. There was no promise to chain your feet. No reassurance gripped at my wrist. You were free like the desert wind. The paths were all your wishes' ways. I, too, I see had full use of my loneliness. But today when you switched your path to avoid me, it seemed to us as if you had not been faithful to me.

X: I seek poetic expressions to describe love, but often they seem inadequate, and sometimes plain shallow. These are moments when the heart wants the truth about love and all verbosity only undermines the emotion. You are not the sunshine of my life or the waves in my ocean, because love isn't these things. But the truth is that for the past few hours, since the moment i woke up, i have been thinking about you, to somehow describe what i feel for you. Perhaps 'I love you forever' smacks of exaggeration to you. Maybe it does, but the truth is that as much as it is humanly possible, i want to love you and share my life with you till i die. Let the world say that the poet lies, but without you life is hell and you are my heaven.

Distinction is often made between outer (physical) and inner (mental) beauty, and to a great degree it does remain valid, but at some moments, it appears to me as if the distinction is being blurred, and it becomes impossible to determine which part of the beauty is physical and which is mental, and the person just appear to you as beautiful. Not beautiful from inside, not beautiful from outside, but just plain beautiful. Perhaps it sounds absurd, but i guess it is not possible to relate to this unless you have experienced it too, and if you have, then you'd know what i am talking about. But of course, beauty is a product of both subjective and objective perceptions, so the sort of beauty you perceive depends on your state of mind as well.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come not to bury Caesar, but to unearth the enigma of the very author of Julius Caesar! If you have any breath, be prepared to lose it now! If you thought fiction can beat facts, think again! I present to you the mystery of William Shakespeare! *drum roll* Read my cover-story "The Mystery of William Shakespeare", published today in Us Magazine: http://jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2008-weekly/us-25-04-2008/p23.htm#1

My colourful rendition of Pablo Picasso's 'Blue Nude'; made with crayons.

Bree: "You shouldn't listen to a woman who's just had her heart broken. We tend to lie." Desperate Housewives, Episode # 112

G: If i had to name you after a constellation, it would be Cygnus. A: The swan? Why that one? G: Because it has a long neck. :)

Addison: [ to patient's parents, who is brain-dead but pregnant with a child ] The problem here as I see it, is you want to use your daughter’s corpse as an incubator. That’s the problem! ... Derek: A little sensitivity would be nice here, okay? (Addison looks at him in disbelief) They love their daughter. They don’t want to let go. Alright? Addison: What they're doing is not about love, Derek! It’s- it’s- well, it's like you. Derek (suddenly angry): Excuse me. Addison: Like how you pretend to love me, but really you're just using me to fill some need you have to be a good guy. Grey's Anatomy , Episode # 225

It hasn't felt like this before It hasn't felt like home before you And I know it's easy to say but it's harder to feel This way And I miss you more than I should Than I thought I could Can't get my mind off of you I know you're scared that I'll soon be over it That's part of it all Part of the beauty of falling in love with you is the fear you won't fall And I hate the phone But I wish you'd call And I miss you more than I should Than I thought I could Can't get my mind off of you Joshua Radin, The Fear You Won't Fall

"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted." James Branch Cabell

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Summer Love By Muhammad Awais Aftab With a touch of hand, a flick of eyes You took my heart, my mind My body, my soul You said our love's vesper bell would never toll But it lasted just a summer The autumn wind, so fit for love Would have welcomed us on the orange path As we walked among trees, grand and tall You said it would never fall But it lasted just a summer I had looked forward to winter nights When our sighs would freeze in air And love would keep us warm You said it would never lose its charm But it lasted just a summer The spring rose would have longed for me To pluck it up And place it in your hair You said it would never wear But it lasted just a summer It was in treacherous heat We met, we shared We loved, we burnt Now my broken heart would never mend You said it would never end But it lasted just a summer [Published in Us Magazine today]

"It would seem that when a culture lacks monsters to kill, civilizations worth fighting for, or ideas to advance, men seem to dissolve in effeminate idleness, making the art of love their main profession." James Weigel, Mythology

Dr. Bailey: I sat up one night. Middle of the night … and I knew I could do this... I still don’t know how I’m gonna do this but … I knew I could do it. You just have to know and when you don’t know then no one can fault you for it. You do what you can when you can, while you can. And when you can’t, you can’t. Grey's Anatomy, Episode # 213

The Risen Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen by Rembrandt Ethics by Linda Pastan In ethics class so many years ago our teacher asked this question every fall: If there were a fire in a museum which would you save, a Rembrandt painting or an old woman who hadn't many years left anyhow? Restless on hard chairs caring little for pictures or old age we'd opt one year for life, the next for art and always half-heartedly. Sometimes the woman borrowed my grandmother's face leaving her usual kitchen to wander some drafty, half imagined museum. One year, feeling clever, I replied why not let the woman decide herself? Linda, the teacher would report, eschews the burdens of responsibility. This fall in a real museum I stand before a real Rembrandt, old woman, or nearly so, myself. The colors within this frame are darker than autumn, darker even than winter—the browns of earth, though earth's most radiant elements burn through the canvas. I know now that woman and painting and sea

The Photo Album By M. Awais Aftab He was sitting in his personal library reading Sartre's Nausea when he heard the shrill, complaining howl of wind outside, as if the wind goddess was venting out her anger. He put down the book on the side table, took off his reading glasses and walked up to the locked window. He hadn't seen it ajar since… he couldn't remember the last time. With a strong jerk, he yanked it open. An eager burst of cold air greeted him, and he shivered in reflex. "Huh… it's cold!" slipped out of his mouth without warning. He stared outside at the starless horizon. The night was like a young maiden with dark hair -- dark like magic, dark like memories. He had never felt comfortable in cold, and even now his chest, a chronic victim of bronchitis, was suffering from the merciless hammering of the arctic air, but somehow he was tempted; like a priest caught in the glutinous gaze of a prostitute. He felt the warmth being sucked out of his limbs. Th

'A man who cannot enter your heart, cannot enter your eyes.' Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy

Today i am getting a chance to do something which i don't get to do very often: feature the writing of another fellow writer. It is an article by Dure Aziz Amna, a dear friend and like a sister, and offers a mixture of political insight and wisdom of a fairy tale. The ideology of the article is, of course, purely hers, and does not represent my views. Read it for yourself, and feel free to comment. The Beautiful, Unfortunate Land Dure Aziz Amna Once in a far-off world, there was a place called The Beautiful, Unfortunate Land. This land, as can be deciphered from its name was a lovely, truly lovely place. There were mountains which stood tall and white And rivers which gushed with might Deserts with winding tails to tell In short a lovely place to dwell But you see, this breathtaking beauty had been bestowed at a price. The Beautiful, Unfortunate Land had come into being after a lot of its darling people had given their lives for it. And when their sacred blood soaked into the land

Karl (Patient): [ to George ] But sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, they just can't love you back in the same way. Believe me, son. Living with a woman who can't love you back ... way lonelier than being alone. Grey's Anatomy, Episode # 211

' Amaranth ' drawn by Princess-of-Shadows on deviantART Inspired by the song Amaranth by Nightwish

I just read the impressive manifesto of L. James Hammond on his website. Very wise words: 'The Philosophy of Today is both a religion and a philosophy; it satisfies both spiritual needs and intellectual demands. It has given up on traditional religion, monotheistic religion. It doesn’t believe in a Creator God, a Ruling God, a Judging God. But it also is wary of atheism because it believes that the universe is suffused with energy, power, mystery, even a kind of consciousness. Thus, it isn’t exactly atheist, and it isn’t exactly theist; one might say that it defines god in a different way, or calls god by a different name. The Philosophy of Today is akin to Eastern worldviews, such as Zen, insofar as those Eastern worldviews are both a philosophy and a religion, and those Eastern worldviews are neither atheist nor theist (in a Western sense). The Philosophy of Today heals the rift that has sundered philosophy and religion since the time of Descartes. Religion has long been based on

The response of my very kind and nice friends when they saw me in Shalwar Kameez today : * 'Masha Allah!' * 'Aaj tu juma parhnay ka plan hay!' * 'Tum musalman hogaye ho?' * 'Syed bananay ki koshish kar rahay ho ab!' * 'Suna hay tum ne kal apnay ghar main philosophers kay but torr diye hain!'

Well there's not a lot for you to give if you're giving in And there's not a lot for you to feel if you're not feeling it You bring it up and bring it in and we'll get you fixed up in no time What I wanted most, what I wanted most, what I wanted most Was to get myself all figured out And what I figured out, what I figured out, what I figured out Was that I needed more time to figure you out There's not a lot for you to give if you're giving in And there's not a lot for you to feel if you're not feeling it You bring it up and bring it in and we'll get you fixed up in no time Cause this love is all I have to give This love is all I have to give Tegan and Sara, Fix You Up

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"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." [and, i'd add, not loved. :) ] Henry David Thoreau

Saad: Do you have any interest in Tennis? Me: Well, mujhe pata hae ke is main love hota hai!