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Hanging in immature love with failures
HAQ NAWAZ ODHO
MA (PREV) 2K18/MMC/12
Standing by the exterior corner of Central Library, doing nothing but staring at the girls arriving at University from various nearby and remote areas. Being well-dressed in Jeans T-shirt, feeling proud to be at university and seeing the girls whom they had only seen in posters and movies of India. Terming them in different styles, like green revolution, pieces, a sigh of relief, and delight of eyes and so on, and so forth. Forgetting every responsibility and expectation which their families owe to them, remaining obsessed with doing those things which satisfy the opposite sex no matter how much cost they will be going to pay for it. It is a natural outcome when poster-happy boys step into university premises turn out to be actual.
The true love calls for sacrifices, long sightedness and unity of mind whereas no such requirement is necessary for Lust because there is no truism, long sightedness and unity of mind in it. Viewed from an angle of devils dictionary: Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage. On the contrary, the lust can only be satisfied with something that is unworthy to be mentioned here. Same the problem is with most of the university students, who are attracted to the physical appearance of opposite sex without knowing what is running in their heads. Lust is one of the seven deadly sins mentioned in the bible, which is nothing but an exercise in futility that rubs the nose of poster-happy innocents into the sand and finally proves to be an enduring curse.
Leaving no stone unturned and putting their back with a full night in seeking the contact numbers of girls; once they get the numbers, they start texting and most of the times calling them their sisters/Adi at first so that they may bring them in a trap.
As it is a known fact that sense of attraction is instilled in both the sexes, so the girls, too, respond sometimes even with single effort on the part of poster-happy. Ultimately, they meet; have tea, leave for Al-Manzar, miss the classes on each passing day; Unknowing an end reality of leaving each other at some point in time. The cycle of separation and reconciliation continues throughout four-year tenure of degree and end permanently.
Expecting and praying for the bright future of those poster-happy guys, their families burn mid-night oil to support them financially, responding dishonestly to their core aim of coming to the university, they bypass it and stick to other time-wasting activities which appeal harshly to their sexual urge. Forgetting the charm of relatives and their expectations with which the said guys are shouldered with, they prefer to be in the company of opposite sex to the blessing company of studious and hardworking students. Sometimes but in very rare cases, few poster-happy pause and consider the guilt and culpability in which they are trapped. Those few, motivated intrinsically, succeed in extricating themselves from a vicious circle of lust.
Along with enjoyment, the poster-happy carry the heaviest and unbearable burden of supplementary and improve with each passing semester. With an abundance of failures, they return sadly to their homes, shrouding their faces from everyone. They repent and regret severely but to no benefit. The further addition to the severity of their repentance appears when those girls with whom they wasted their time, pass all the papers of each semester with flying marks by cramming (RATTA).It is, of course, the pre-determined outcome of giving back to study for the sake of a moment’s joy. They spend their rest of life unsatisfactorily only because they know well that how much importance they gave to the central objective (study). They did not know the pearls of wisdom which read as, an investment in education pays the best interest but they invested in lust which paid the worst interest.
With heavy burden of supplementary and improves, poster-happy again come to university as special students all alone with new faces in their surrounding missing those days when they used to be in the company of their female fellows. They forgot that time and tide wait for none and time has got no reverse gear so none can bring back the gone time. They feel bored and disgust in getting themselves ready for papers which they failed in. They feel sorry and shy when regular students ask them “Are you, special student?” This is the dross churned out by lust.
No worries, saving face is easy for poster-happy provided they devote due time to both study and joy. Whenever the classes are witnessed to be in good flow, they must avail from them without wasting even a single second and when the classes are over, they may enjoy the company of opposite sex but not to be trapped in the severe fold of lust which can’t be cured except something unmentionable here. If one opts for true love with long sightedness, it is pretty good because the situation changes altogether when truism appears to act. There are hundreds of such true examples which ultimately resulted in Wedlock. Now it’s upto them that whether they chase behind lust and rub their nose into the sand or opt for true love not necessarily end at marriage.
Excess and overdoing of everything is bad. Similarly, compulsive obsession with study and joy is bad too. It is a newly emerging disease named: COD which stands for Compulsive Obsessive Disease.
The poster-happy need to head to all and dispense a fair share of time to both: Study and joy. But giving even a single second to lust is unwelcome and unacceptable.Lust is a magnet; it attracts every human being even animals to it with all its might; and most of the times, it succeeds in doing so. The poster-happy will also have to wield their full might to distract themselves from LUST MAGNET.