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" Sometimes, abandon the moving crowd and try to be a care-free sage.
Rather than a roaring, or a drizzling black cloud, try to become a rainbow adding all hues to the end of the sky.
Sometimes, rescue the soul from the captivity of your body, your soul also owns some desires, listen to the anxious heart and free the soul.
Don’t aim to be the loftiest mountain talking to clouds, sometimes attempt to become a valley befriending every passer-by.
Sometimes, cease the war ongoing between the four walls of the self, and surrender the swords and endeavour to live yourself.
Sometimes, withdraw the yearning to compete with the sun, why not just be the tiny ray peeping out from the vent.
Sometimes, resurrection would happen; this life, this dilemma, every bit is perishable. Before it befalls, try to offer the entire life’s namaaz in a single prostration.
Sometimes, hang the restrictions on a nail, free the wings burdened under it, take its support and fly in the sky of dreams.
Sometimes, instead of hiding the words behind the veil of ink, or hiding it on the paper, try to unveil it with your tongue. "
― Misbah Khan , Blanks & Blues
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" Our education system is like a money plant, which looks beautiful with big green leaves, but fails to produce any fruit or a flower. Undoubtedly, we are a home to the best doctors, scientists, poets, artists, and whatnot. But I feel, we miserably fail to evoke humanism, compassion, and tolerance in students. If we would count all the do’s and don’ts taught to us in our school, surely don’ts would exceed the number of the do's. I was forced to mug up certain things I was not interested in. Now, I understand the importance of questioning. I wish if our schools could teach us the art of questioning instead of just hunting for answers. Various facts are stuffed in delicate minds, but what about teachings on life, tutoring to never give up, and asking for students’ opinions on a subject? Yes, teaching these things would not directly increase the ‘GDP’ by creating human-machines, but would definitely create better minds and wonderful souls. I really wish our syllabus could preach to us the sheer value of knowledge, wisdom, and awareness. I wish our schools could nurture educated intellectuals, rather than literate persons. I wish we could pay more heed to the education ratio instead of just literacy ratio. We need more thinkers and fewer money makers. We are directed towards a goal already chosen for us, but not asked about our big fantasies and little dreams. "
― Misbah Khan , Blanks & Blues
