Wednesday 12 May 2010

A Perpetual Love Affair


I am greatly fascinated by her; I simply love her sight and all places and abodes where ever she resides is like a sacred sanctuary to me. My love affair started with her at my adolescence, she was so young and beautiful than, she has maintained her youth and majesty and grown even prettier. To her overwhelming and startling beauty, grace has been added. Her acquaintance is like a treasure to me an insurmountable treasure that she fosters.

Her feel, her contours, the scent of her smell all combined makes her the most ravishing, most exotic and highly desirable. Her beauty is not just skin deep she has added other dimensions to her serenity , her exalted beauty transcends all known barriers of time and space. She coexists with me despite various differences of opinions and sometimes with even divergent and opposite views.

What ever I hide from myself I see in her and whatever others hide from me I discover all in her, she is like a mirror to me, a mirror that see's within and also without, I call her my BOOK.

Book talks to me and I frequently indulge in conversation with her. During reading, I often, start reading into her which makes me the co-author of the Book. I have always maintained that Book is written by three writers, one who pen's the script, second the character which is being scripted, third is the reader who is not a passive but an active author of book, as book evolves with the participation of reader, it grows outside and also inside the reader, a most astonishing and rare phenomenon something incomparable with other things but only equal to that miraculous human spirit.

19 comments:

  1. This post is inspired by the genuine thinking of a most talented blogger THINKING.

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  2. What a perfectly gorgeous and compelling piece of writing....I'm JEALOUS!!! :))

    Keep up the beautiful, tight, cleverly poignant work, friend!!!

    Because of you, I know I will at last become the reader I once was...and of the sort of books I've always loved...(And some credit also goes to Khurram Ali Shafique!

    By the way, would all of you please watch for a new and beautifully-hearted fellow from the Pashto area to maybe show up and make him very welcome? Just in case...

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  3. OOPS!!!!! I'm so sorry not to add Sahib to our host!!!! Plz forgive...

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  4. My companion of choice too!... She might disagree but doesn't argue, she might have an opinion but doesn't criticize and converses at your pace, mood and sometime taste! What more can one want!
    Ashfaq

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  5. hmmm...I simply fell in love with your post...Dar Sahib...what a illustrations and dialogues...

    I adored this line...before and still find it amusing and true....

    "Book is written by three writers, one who pen's the script, second the character which is being scripted, third is the reader who is not a passive but an active author of book, as book evolves with the participation of reader, it grows outside and also inside the reader".

    Your post has made me again to think and to love my books...to find true friendship and everlasting relationship.

    Books....I called them my part time lovers...hmm...

    They don't have any rules...all the set of rules are from readers....whenever...wherever...whatever the book you choose...they are ready to give you the full authority over them....

    I called them...best furniture...

    Simply superb post Dar Sahib....

    hmmm...I have took the printour of this post to keep it in my selection....thanks !

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  6. Connie
    Thanks for your contineous support, and you write much better and pertinent.

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  7. Ashfaq
    my idea is not of a docile companion but one who is at peace but also belligerent , logical but emotionally charged, intellectual but spiritually stimulated.

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  8. Thinking
    Thanks for your very heartfelt appreciation and liking I am pleased, but if there is any good thing in the post it is because of you, as I pointed out in my opening comment that the post was inspired from your writings, if anything is good about this, the credit goes to you.

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  9. I can certainly see how you, Thinking inspired, via your writings, this piece! As you are also inspiring me and although a very "slow starter" which such imagination linked to reality...IF I start as an artist - imaginary writer of such pieces this will also be because of you more than 50 % worth anyway! I am so happy to be in this little community of writers, readers and dreamers...

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  10. hmmm...Dar Sahib...you gave me too much credit...

    But anyways...if you are insisting...I am taking it...but what a responsibility???

    hmm....Sir you have the most exciting and matured writing style and I am far far away from that...still I am learning from you...Shafique Sahib...and dearest friend Connie...and so many who are part of our family...

    Thank you so much for giving me such honor...blushed me away...

    Thank you so much.

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  11. I LOVE your "immediacy" Thinking. And by the way, Dar Sahib, I love the fact that you used such a "relaxed" honest photo of a reader! Very charming.

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  12. Woww its beautiful SiR!
    And yes i noticed the style of Hr in this post!
    lovely and full of suspense!
    I like reading such posts.The selection of words is awesome, Force the reader to read till the end.

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  13. Dear Friends, Thinking, Connie, Reebz and Umer
    thanks for coming and commenting your comments and presence makes this a beautuful page.

    Connie
    The above is an award winning photograph taken by my daughter and the caption was:

    " KNOWLEDGE IS ALL ABOUT HARDWORK, DEDICATION AND PERSEVERANCE"

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  14. Sorry for the late coming on this beautiful post!

    I loved reading it and enjoyed and mesmerised its each line. And this is really really true that BOOKS are one of our best companions...

    And what a description of a BOOK!

    "What ever I hide from myself I see in her and whatever others hide from me I discover all in her, she is like a mirror to me, a mirror that see's within and also without, I call her my BOOK."

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  15. Woww i didn't know that the picture is an award winning picture!
    Your daughter is a proud replica of yours in skills then MashaAllah =)

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  16. Show us more photos from your daughter when/if possible?

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  17. Komal
    Thanks for your appreciation and liking. I am eagerly awaiting your next posts of Stray Reflections as many future posts are promising great brain storming.

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  18. Reebz
    Thank you very much for your kind words.

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  19. Coonie
    I would soon share some photographs from her.

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