Life’s secrets. Wonders of life

   I always often wondered what the reason or secret of life is! Why people call things as wonders... Material things can be seen and touched but in process of life we never realised that in the course of seeing all these material things we are ignoring the most significant life’s truth; the nitty-gritties are the actual miracles and wonders of life. Most magnificent creation of god are the ones we use all the time and what’s happening daily. For example isn’t it a wonder or a miracle that sun rises every day and it sets every day. It’s a blessing, wonder what will happen to us when and if this process is stopped?

  Few days ago one of my best friends Shamshad Khan took one of most sensational photographs I have ever seen. Though I know she is brilliant photographer and seen most of her work. This photograph made me ruminate about these wonders of life. My first thought when I saw the picture was “sensational, how amazing can god's creation be...” . Second thought was no man made thing is as amazing as what we see around... Everywhere we go any country and place the scenery is so different yet so alike. Keeps us wondering and thinking this must be it the most beautiful/wonderful place on earth. But no everywhere, everything is made in its fullest as it should be. And our thoughts defer as we see different places and different things.

  I thought about this for many days  and came to conclusion that as we are different from each other though we are all human beings may be  for each person how they see life and how they see secret of life  or wonders is different. It took time to understand the nature of many things. It took years to know what is important in life and what not.  So in that account i realised for everyone it’s different, so I decided to make a list of seven wonders of life in my own thinking which is weird because when I finished my list (trust me I really never finished my list but forced myself to stop) I had thirteen not seven, I tried to cut some off to make it seven but couldn’t do it. So I thought why not I’ll have my list of thirteen wonders rather than seven. And again this made me wonder “wow, I got my 14^th definite wonder; changing thoughts and behaviour”. So in the end I had fourteen wonders. And I realised we can’t ever catch up with destiny or life’s secrets as its ever changing process, and that way life’s secrets can’t be grasped…

By: Nina Ali

PS: Here is my list of wonder which I came up with..

Seven wonders    By Nina Ali

1.     Birth of child

2.     Aging skin n body

3.     Image in the mirror

4.     Unconscious thoughts

5.     Changing personalities

6.     Life’s journey

7.     Death

Basic Seven Wonders of Life should be dictated as:-

1.     To be able to SEE

2.     To be able to HEAR

3.     To be able to TOUCH

4.     To be able to TASTE

5.     To be able to FEEL

6.     To be able to LAUGH

7.     To be able to LOVE

Found this written is piece of paper in one of my old journals...

Give me a holler

I have lost myself

(Don’t know) when i woke up

(Don’t know) when i slept

I will die if I be far from you

I started looking at your eyes

I started loving life

I had been fearless to death before

But now started worrying

In the first rain of the monsoon

I witnessed all my dreams at one night

Hope this life does not pass by

In only one meeting (with u!)

You be in front of me don't go

I have got to say something to u don't go

The season of love

Will not come back again

*Found this written is piece of paper in one of my old journals... I am sure I didn’t write it but it touched my heart so much wanted to share

Tears from soul, less from eyes

I knew it was coming yet my heart never took it

Surprises are no more; it’s just a look they give,

Days flew and I knew it will hit me hard

Stronger the emotion my soul just cried

Pale was my face, colours draining though I tried

How strong I can be I never knew

Failing to accept the fact was tricky

Blur the day went still had I to stay intact

Hard it was not to show my core

Breaking I was inside no one saw

Surrounding was a show, grasping the time

No tears came from eyes but soul broke in parts

Onus was all I had, to finish what I started

Stood there watching, able to do nothing

How humans are so impotent

Yet we believe we have control,

Only when we lose a battle we know

We are nil and we all have to go in the end

Fall a cliff or go in peace

Leaving a tale of your being to all

Place where only a prayer can be send

My soul cried when you went, though I know it was time

Best it was for you, but feelings don’t agree

Moments I couldn’t take, for the pains you had

Hard to let go, tough to keep together

No one knew my soul is scared beyond restore

Feels like I can’t make it anymore

Tears flow from my soul less from my eyes…

M. Nina Ali

To my father, will never forget you.. for all those moments..miss u forever

The tears of pain....in my heart forever

The tears of pain are oozing away

Even if I pass away from this world

You will still remain in my heart

Your memories will linger in my heart forever

I’ve become forlorn

Your love I have been deprived of

Lonesome and hopeless I have become…

The tears of pain are oozing away

There is no escape from the pricks of this pain and grief

Today there is no one to see my hopeless condition

There is no one to aid me, but you alone

I wish to give my heart to no one but you

My heart wishes to see no one but you

My heart is over shadowed by this ill-fate…

Even if I pass away from this world

You will still remain in my heart

Your memories will linger in my heart forever

You will still remain in my heart

The tears of pain …

Never mind even if my soul leaves my body…

And even if my bones disintegrate into soil

I will love you

I’ll always cherish you in my heart

There’s no way darling that your memories

Would fade away from my heart

Even if my heart stops beating I will never stop loving you

You are the pure love of my heart that will never fade away

My heart was filled with such sweet hope

 I so badly wanted to live my life with you

However, I am deprived of that luck in this world

That, on the written destiny cannot be changed

My heart assures me that I can get your everlasting love in heaven

My heart wishes to meet you hence forth

The tears of pain are oozing away

Letting go...

Easy to let go…

Desperately dropping your soul low

One hint to stand up

One dream for someone to catch up

Faster to run

Yet never know the fun

Holding inside you

Going mad like zoo

Refresh your Heart

Don’t let go on your part

Click with your dreams

Never fear the screams

Breathe slowly as your heart beats

Wait till your breath and soul meet

Find a way to Hold

Coz your soul is worth more than Gold

By M. Nina Ali

The Seekers - I'll never find another you (1968)

one amazing song... lovely lyrics... old time fav classic...

From The Seekers farewell concert July 7 1968 in London. The last time they sang this song as a group in the sixties. I hope these few videos give you good memories and can help to keep their songs and music alive.We can not let them be forgotten. I'll never find another you is composed by Tom Springfield and was recorded at Abbey Road studioes in London november 4 1964. "I'll never find another you" was to become their first number one hit in the UK 1965. And by the way,Judith overslept and got late to the studio that day :)

Joe Nichols - I'll Wait For You

Every time I hear this song I cry like a baby.. .it’s amazingwhat love makes a person do… Every time I hear this song... I have to turn away to whoever I'm with cause it makes me cry...

Joe Nichols - If Nobody Believed In You

Oh i just love Joe's voice.. it has egde in it... and his lyrics are god beautiful and meaningful

MY OWN SHALL COME TO ME

My favorite poem of all time… first time I read it I was in grade one and It was on my birthday... It was in a gift book I got…

MY OWN SHALL COME TO ME

If John Burroughs (1837-1921) had never written any other poem than "My Own Shall Come to Me," he would have stood to all ages as one of the greatest of American poets. The poem is most characteristic of the tall, majestic, slow-going poet and naturalist. There is no greater line in Greek or English literature than "I stand amid the eternal ways."

Serene I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea.
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! My own shall come to me.

I stay my haste, I make delays,
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.

Asleep, awake, by night or day
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.

What matter if I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap when it has sown,
And gather up its fruit of tears.

The stars come nightly to the sky;
The tidal wave comes to the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.

The waters know their own and draw
The brook that springs in yonder heights;
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delights.

JOHN BURROUGHS.

Way back home …

This is where my life begins, or at least in the eyes of others it is. I am 30 years old, I loved and lost... But this only I know… as people usually assumes I am successful women with lonely life... I have no friends no family… only thing I have is myself and just a little bit of hope… a hope to get back home. My only problem is I don’t know where it is or whether it existed. I just only know all I want is go home… for almost 2 decades I try to figure out what’s in my heart, how I feel, but have never been successful. My only magic is I can tell what’s in other person’s heart and mind by hearing and looking at their face... They say your eyes and your face is the door to your soul… trust me I believe that. And that’s where my life starts.
There have been many times I have think of my childhood and it always brings tears in my eyes. With experience of time I made a deal with my heart that it’s best not to open the books of my past. It’s a blessing that no one but I know my past. May be this is because I eloped and came and started living here where no one knew who I was except my name. My name is Shine Michaels and no one knows what I came here for... only that I came here a decade and little more years before as university student. I ended up being one of the best psychology student oxford ever saw. And that was when the morning star of my career shined. People tell me all the time I am one of the best psychologist, best counselor, and there is nothing I have no solution for. I always found a way out for them. But it’s amazing what people don’t know about that here I am 30 yrs old and still can’t solve riddle of my hearts and my thoughts, can’t put words in my feeling. And still haven’t found my alleyway out.
Today I won this amazing award”BEST PSYCHOLOGIST AWARD “of the year. And I went up the stage to say few words, and when I went up there the only thing I could manage was a thank you. By looking at the crowd and lights flashing in to my eyes... Slowly I saw my past memories flushing back in my mind. As it was happening at that same jiffy, my entire life stood in front of me… it felt like my entire life passed within those few seconds. Only thing I could do was stoop my head take a heavy breath and say thanking you and then find a way out of the crowd, where I can stand with my thoughts and feelings.