Explore yourself

Life is totally yours. So in order to live your life well, you have to explore yourself. Having a deeper knowledge about yourself has so many benefits. You should know what you want or demand from yourself.

Keep trying until you achieve your aim – this is the only way to lead a fulfilling life. Exploring yourself actually implies the exploration of the things you feel profound satisfaction and tranquillity in.

You just have to recognise what you actually are, not what you want to be.

This will result in a more exciting life with really fulfilling experiences, because then you will know which activities and aims enhance and activate your inner power and perception. This will make you utilise your potentials to the best of your abilities and so yeild good results.

This will let you live a life that is completely yours. So go ahead and explore life.

Mahnoor Fatima,

Mianwali

How our world has changed

Coronavirus is having great impact on everyone’s life, whether they like it or not. The fear of this virus has gripped everyone. In many countries, this virus has spread like the Australian bushfire. In the blink of an eye, during the Australian bushfire, innocent koalas and other animals died and now coronavirus is here.

Will the fate that befell the koalas happen to us? Only time can tell.

Schools are closed, restaurants, shops and malls are shut, and many more public places too. Could this get any worse? We don’t know.

Out in the space, there is deafening silence and now our earth too has gone silent as life has come to almost a standstill. Children stay in their houses, no more delectable ice cream is bought from the ice cream vendor.

The world was a frenzy of human activity before the coronavirus introduced itself, leaving the hearts of everyone icy cold until it froze.

Well, when there is something bad, there will surely be some good too. There is now less pollution in the world. The air pollution caused by cars has now been reduced as people are not going out unless for urgent needs. Factories are shut and so there is no more pollution from those. People are learning to work from home, children are learning to study on their own and take online classes.

Now there is no need to rush but a need to calm down and take things slowly, but carefully. Now is the time to think about what is really important for us and cherish those things and people.

There is plenty of time to spend with our family and we should cherish this time.

Life is now simple.

Aeyshal Anser Khan,

Karachi

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 16th, 2020