Time Ticks!

What is it about weather and the roles it plays in ones behavior? Take yesterday for instance. Islamabad had a hailstorm that left the city covered in a blanket of white, bringing scores of people out into the streets to see their town embalmed in natures wonder.

Cameras where clicking, phones were buzzing and cars were a-crashing! (people don’t really know how to drive on icy roads here since it rarely happens) But it was a moment in time where everyone forgot the current shortage of electricity, the hiking prices of gasoline, the massive inflation in our economy and the threat to our national security.(ironically there was a suicide bomb attack in Lahore yesterday)

Yes, nature has its way of offering us these little glimmers of hope, rejoicing and revelry where time comes to a pause and we are consumed by the beauty that surrounds us; which mind you, we take for granted each day!

I enjoyed driving in the midst of the deluge myself and have concluded that we all need to take moments out of our lives just to stop and look around; take in these phenomena happening around us every day, and relish all that we can smell, taste, see, hear and feel; all that bonds us together and makes us what we are and can be!

Take that break and let the moment sink in. Our time ticks at the pace we set it to maintain. We just need to take charge of it as opposed to letting time take charge of us!