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A Book That Was Never Meant to Be: Introducing 12 YEARS!

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What happens when twelve years of thoughts, arguments, poems, experiences and occasional bouts of questionable rhyming are brought together in one place? Sometimes, the most interesting books are the ones that were never meant to become books. 12 YEARS! Writings, Rhymes, and Reluctant Awakenings is a collection of personal writings accumulated between 2008 and 2020. Written at different stages of youth, medical education, professional life and personal experience, these pieces were never originally intended to form a single volume. They were written here and there: in student notebooks, on old blogs, during hospital duties, in moments of reflection, and sometimes simply because there was something on my mind that needed to find its way onto paper. (or mobile screen, whichever 🤷🏽‍♂️) Years later, they were brought together. What emerged was not a conventional autobiography, a continuous story or a book built around a particular mess...
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🛒 Boycotting the Bullies - A Pakistani Grocery List

      A few days ago, my 7-year-old came running to me, anxious. "Daddy, daddy, chachu gave me a boycott chocolate, I can't eat it." She handed me the Dairy Milk bar as if it were on fire. I looked at my brother, beaming, communicating with my eyes that he should learn from this child. Proud, I looked at my daughter, handed it back, and said, "We can eat it, beta, it's not haram, but we cannot buy it. Chachu shouldn't have bought it, but if it's bought already, there's no harm in eating it." She smiled "ok" and ran away with the chocolate bar.      It's been what, 3 years? We got into Pakistani products when Israel attacked Palestine, and we have been stringent on it by the grace of God. It's not that we are alone in this—in fact, since we started, a whole lot of friends are boycotting, and there have been visible effects on the market. More and more Pakistani companies are surfacing each day with better qualities and extens...
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⏳ Countdown to the collision of Milky Way and Andromeda

Milkomeda Live Telemetry 🔊 Cosmic Audio ✦ Drag to rotate galaxies in 3D ✦ Milky Way & Andromeda Collision Astronomical countdown & live trajectory telemetry (Milkomeda) 🛰️ Real-Time Cosmic Distance Odometer 24,030,255,400,355,232,000 KM Kilometers Remaining Until Core Collision (Ticking -301 km/s) Light-Years: 2,540,000.000000 ly • Approach Velocity: -301 km/s (402,000 km/h) -- Years -- Days -- Hours -- Minutes -- Seconds Total Cosmic Seconds Remaining Calculating... Initial Range (Median) 2.540 ± 0.11 M ly ...
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Defiance

I don't see the shining bright sun There's just a big black cloud No daisies are blooming to stun No lilies are singing out loud The petunias have a sad low face The leaves are a dark dense shroud The roses have lost their grace The bunnies are huddled in a crowd The kittens have retreated to a ditch Despair is staring at it wowed In the face of all this with no hitch Defiance is standing still proud
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Darkness

Darkness is intoxicating, it's like gravity Defined and designed by deep dexterity A draught that devours the very concept of clarity I wonder why it calls to me with such familiarity Hurtling and tumbling towards the singularity Deep is the well of despair and hilarity Busting all hopes with merciless brutality Demons dementing with determined solidarity Despite the despondence of self and society Despair not in the Doings of the Deity His decisions for you will lead to auriety Nothing goes amiss in His presiety (c) Abdullah Bin Khurram 2018
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Poem: Beauty of the Dark

Have you ever seen the beauty of the dark Walking a stray path in an open park No noise from a car or crow or lark Startled only by the occasional loud bark The world is still to every lepton n quark The hustle of the day is a contrast stark The blackness punctuated by a lonely spark The light bug's domain and it's signature mark Your face is soothed by the southbound breeze There is a rustle in the bushes and trees Your heart and limbs for a moment freeze Don't shut your eyes even for a sneeze The bugs are singing a continuous chorus Lamenting the demise of the shining horus The sky is a big curtain, dark but porous Faraway celebratory fireworks effloresce Among the stars is a moving satellite Mars is bright with shining hematite Meteors plight jumping around impolite Darkness and light overnight reunite The sky is still full of surprises From the horizon a half slice rises Devouring the darkness as the horizon demises Dulled and blurred by polluting...
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Deceptions

I keep myself occupied in mobile, So the memories of my past, Won't haunt me. I keep going through Facebook, So that my loneliness, Won't taunt me. I keep funny videos running, So that the darkness around, Won't daunt me. I step carefully around risks, So that any failures, Won't gaunt me. I keep myself hidden in crowds, So that those who know me, Won't flaunt me. Deceptions by denials and dread, Trying to make true, What can't be. © Abdullah bin Khurram 2017
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