Murree!!!

Back from my weekend trip to Murree. I don’t need to go on and on about how much I love mountains and clouds…and wild flowers! What I am not fond of are the commercialized confines of Mall Road. So, I love Murree but I would rather not go to Mall Road, except for the Nawai-Waqt book shop where I bought one of my most favorite pictures.
So, anyhow, Mom, Dad, Bhai and I left this Saturday evening, the drive was very pleasant and I just loved the cool wind on my face. What I didn’t love was that the place was a lot colder than I thought. I really ought to have taken a coat or something warm because there has really only been this one time in my life that I fainted and I fainted because it was way too cold for my taste;). I don’t understand it…I cannot put up with low temperatures like most people do. I was actually grateful that I didn’t get to move to Canada because it actually snows there and I would have become a pop-sickle! But I shall see snow falling before I die, if it’s the last thing I do…muhahaha!
So, in any case, it was fun. We did go to Mall Road, my favorite shop was closed!!! Then we cruised around Jhica Gali, Bhurban and Murree! The place looked beautiful as legions of clouds descended on us… breathtaking! The drive back was equally pleasant and when we entered isloo, it started raining!!! What a weekend!!! Exactly what the doctor ordered.
So, I am back in my room and I don’t have to wrap myself in a blanket. I started reading Tariq Ali’s Fearof mirrors. Its introductory passage though depressing, somehow ringed a bell…
‘At first it’s like an ember. Then it begins to flicker and soon there’s a flame. It is this flame that penetrates the brain. The result? Constant pain. It’s when my mind cannot contain pain; when it over-powers everything-hope, love, pleasant memories, everything-it’s when it brutally occupies the past that the first thought occurs. The pain refuses to go away….Spiritual poverty is worse than death, degradation or suicide…’
I watched Ben Kingsley’s “House of sand and fog”…it’s one depressing movie of the superlative degree. I ended up asking myself…how did I go so wrong in loving life? However, I will ponder over this some other time…for now, I will just read something pleasant!