Haidar's Corner

Many nights ago I died Death's stranglehold gripping me like a lion pinning its prey In that moment Life played back Like a tape With no rewind or pause Just vivid clarity Like day and night All my moments consecutively Accounted, successively From opening till end credits No time or space for edits It was the uncut display Undeniable Incontrovertible A t The End Expect no applause For each performer Is his own Director Haidarwali 201711300627hrs

Mentorship, according to Wikipedia "is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person (known as a mentor) helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person (known as a mentee/protégé). The mentor may be older or younger than the person being mentored, but he or she must have a certain area of expertise. It is a learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and someone who wants to learn." . Today more than ever, there is an urgent need for mentoring due to the variety of issues that people have to deal with. Yet unfortunately, there is a clear lack of mentoring opportunities both for the mentors and the mentees and as a result of this, the society as a whole loses. . The reasons for these challenges can be divided into two: Mentors' challenge and Mentees' challenge. . On the side of the Mentors, there is an ever increasing pressure to balance the numerous career, family and individual goals in a w...

Everyday, we think about the future in different ways ranging from a couple of minutes, hours, days, months, years or even our whole lifetimes. . But rarely do we see such chronological periods as building stones to the future reality we seek. For in each moment, an individual is charting the course for their future, while at the same time writing their history. . Therefore careful introspection is needed for a person to 'visualize' how their actions today will shape the realities of tomorrow and this is quite profound in more ways than can be imagined. . It is a fact that the single most important factor responsible for success in any human endeavour is 'practice'. The amount of time devoted to repetion of any sequence of activity is what makes a person a 'master', 'professional', 'expert', and any other tag we wish to use. This means that from the onset a 'visionary' ensures they make 'practice' a habit in an attempt to pr...

the vastness of the unknown . have you ever stared into the heavens high up above the vastness incomparable except perhaps to define the word yet even so we cannot see the fullness for want of a wider horizon whose stretch seems to bend at corner of eyes' vision . sometimes it feels as if the skies are layers that need to be peeled like that speck, unknown atop tiny bulb wrapped away under multitude of leafy covers that is an onion, lodged in a sack loaded one upon another buried within a truck headed for the city! . Haidarwali 201711121142hrs

You look at me as if I am ghost, yet ghosts do not have feelings for there is no body to store. I am real dust-covered flesh and bone with a wheelbarrow of pain and joy,  sorrow and hope, trying to get home. . I used to have a life before I became this...this remnant of an existence whose memory is fading as fast as a cloud of smoke fleeing a windstorm. Only a few precious moments remain as mementos of fate's decree. . You should know that I have recorded a thousand steps, to move towards my destiny, but each one only takes me back,  across deserted fields, into thick, dark forests and over the expanse of the lonely seas. . I have only arrived back, at the very end of the earth, where the sun does not shine during the day and the moon and stars hide at night with only my heart as proof that I am alive. . Haidarwali 201711121019hrs

If 'footprints' could last Like a metal cast I'd have put in firm place Yet neither sign nor trace Have I stumbled on This long winding 'path' If 'voices' could linger Like an echo of a ringer I'd have followed their sweet rhythm Yet neither rhythm nor rhyme Have my attentive ears heard Over blare of this 'song' If images could be clear Like the feel of monstrous fear I'd have 'seen' the big picture Yet neither order nor clarity Have I set eyes upon From this high 'balcony' If thoughts could materialise Like a blink of my eyes I would have fluttered aplenty Yet hardly any speck  Have I been able to grasp from this blinding 'smoke' In the end I remain a Searcher... Haidar Wali 201110312110

Despair is in the air Yet without, would we aspire? Is true love possible  When definition is impossible? Still, love's prospect is dear For fear life would be bare Baskets can hold rocks, not water As they will forever drain the latter So hold not mistakes' pain Hopelessness blows like desert grain Words can wipe the shame of blame From bleak future to glowing inner Renewed hope, is no more utopia Bury not, feelings' scars  Let spoken words soothe away Healing with each passing day Desperation's darkness erased With Aspiration's shining light Like night disappears When Dawn reappears. Haidarwali 201711060805hrs