To My Family Living In Skardu❤💜
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We always think about life's unpredictability when something bad happens to us, when all of a sudden there comes a bump in our smooth drive of life. We always put phrases like, "Life is unpredictable", when something grave happens to us. When we lose something or someone. But how come we never say that in a positive manner?
How come we never associate the Unpredictability of life with the positive emotion? Even I used to believe that life is unpredictable in a negative way until the day that there was a car standing right outside my house ready to take us to Skardu.
We all had planned to spend the summer'20 in skardu because of the wedding of our cousins and also because we wanted to spend more time in our hometown, exploring it's beauty. But due to Covid 19 all of our plans died and we were left with a broken heart.
I have learnt a lesson that getting too much excited for something that is going to happen in future is wrong as ut never happens as you have planned for it to be. (Ofc you can disagree, it is clearly my point of view.)
Anyways, there was no chance that we could attend the wedding and be there with the family but a day before she was leaving for skardu, my cousin visited us and after she left everybody started planning to go as it was too emotional for everyone. At first I thought they are just joking as how it could be possible to travel almost 24 hours, and for a wedding on such short notice. I had two final exams left and had no idea what was going on.
And so within a day, everyone exculding me and my little sister was serious for going. I wanted to enjoy and live there for a short while because of the pandemic but on the other hand I was afraid of the exams as I knew that I won't be able to do them properly, I won't be able to give undivided attention to my exams.
I told my friends about the dilemma and they asked me not to miss the opportunity, because I will be regretting it later. I spent two days giving it a lot of thoughts, thinking about the pros and cons and so I came to the conclusion that missing out on the beautiful memories will be a greater regret than getting bad gardes in two subjects. (Afterall, I can improve the gardes but the memories gone will be gone forever....)
And just in two days our whole family was packing stuff, the most unpredictable moment of my life. Who knew that the plans we were making since 2015 will be fulfilled even in this pandemic when all hopes of it died......
Our journey elongated to 44 hours because we were asked to stay at a place known as Thore for almost 10 hours. The reason behind was that we weren't locals. (A long story that needs to be told separately.)
But the moment I stepped on the ground of Skardu, I felt as if there was no stress from the journey at all. I felt excited to meet everyone, to sing songs on the wedding, to see my family happy and smiling in beautiful vibrant colours. Two of my cousins got married, I enjoyed each day (minus the exams' days as they were too stressful because everyone was singing and dancing happily while I was stuck in my room doing the exams.... I missed two most beautiful days but you can't possibly have everything at once right??...)
May Allah bless the newlyweds, may they have all the hapiness and joys in life Ameen.
And I can say one thing for sure that I would have regretted my decision for the whole life if I stayed back home because this trip was the happiness that was lost since the start of 2020, it was the ointment that healed my wounds, it was the spirit of mine that was lost during this pandemic, it brought me closer to people, helped me identifying my happiness.
Each and every person played a major role in making me feel loved and happy. I will never forget the hospitality and the love that I received from everyone there. I will never forget the smiles, the laughter, the jokes, the walks and all the places that we all visited together. It is impossible to mention all of the names but there are two names I would like to mention in particual, Ayyan and Zamrez, my two little dear nephews who have left such an impression on me that can't be removed at all. These two kids were the reason behind my constant smiles and happiness. And I miss them the most💔💔💔
TO EVERYONE WHO MADE ME FEEL AT HOME AND GAVE THEIR UNCONDITIONAL LOVE THROUGHOUT THE TRIP, THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TRIPS,
FOR ALL THE LONG DRIVES,
FOR ALL THE WALKS,
FOR ALL THE DINNERS AND LUNCHES AND FOR ALL THE BREAKFASTS.
TO THE FAMILY OF MINE THAT LIVES IN SKARDU, THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME THAT REAL LOVE DOESN'T NEED CLOSE CONNECTIONS AND TIES, THAT LIVING NEAR OR FAR DOESN'T DECIDE THE AMOUNT OF LOVE YOU HAVE FOR EACH OTHER.
THANK YOU❤💜
