Pulse

Revisiting one's root and origin is quintessential especially when the world around you is moving a little too quickly. Time's being stubborn as it always is and refusing to pace the way you wish it to and slipping as sand does from hands. The company of friends and enemies is blurring between the two and the juggling act of not giving up your personal safety and peace for the profession is becoming hard. You're hoping, wishing, nay almost praying that your sanity does not wash away as quickly as the firmness of your skin is. You create divergence at first. They wear off as quickly as your patience does these days. You realize you need solutions. Long or short not being the focus. Just solutions at this point. So you contemplate. Contemplate. Contemplate. You fight between complaining, experiencing the pains of your past, regrets, and denial. Fighting to find rhyme and reason. You're lucky because you struggled to know better. So between you and utter disappoin...

Recently, I had the privilege of visiting London (Thank you, British Council). The eight-day visit brought with it a spectacular learning experience, heaps of personal growth and much-needed optimism. For a little background information, the visit was part of British Council's Active Citizens Program. In a nutshell the program is about building community cohesion. Their tagline 'Globally Connected, Locally Engaged' does well to encapsulate their belief, aim and structuring. They work with a multitude of entities ranging from universities to civil societies and government to forward the importance of citizenship engagement, durable community service and the hope of a better today and tomorrow. Their focus is to validate the forgotten importance of community building through informal education. With their vast network in Pakistan, I got lucky with the launch of their pilot project at my university. My professor, also one of the facilitators of the program, forwarded a fe...