Behind every
person, either he’s a billionaire or an ugly smelling tramp, they have a story.
A story where people come and go, they make you laugh and cry and then let you
go on your way. Some even try to stop you from what you want. They look like
humans but they are demons who try very hard to kill from inside. But it all
depends on us in the end, either to kill it on the spot or let it bug you for
the rest of your journey. I know you also had a bad day once, you the one
reading this; you also had a day where you thought you shouldn’t have been born
or a day where you feel like the luckiest guy in the world. Just like you I am
writing this thing I don’t know what I call it and I also barely know you, but
I guess we’ll become friends soon, you and I. what I’ve learned from life is
that no matter how much you get and how much you don’t get, you’ll have the
pain and sorrow once. You’ll go through the same pain like that person goes
through who you decided to make fun of. You’ll be also judged trough your
appearance or your motto or your wealth. Life is one tough and unfair truth to
swallow. It’ll just stare at you when you are going through depression, and
suddenly when you’re happy, it’ll slap you hard again bringing you back to the
dark reality. Reality where people choose affections over blood, who are ready
to leave a bunch of memories they hold on to one person and start a new catalog
with another. Who are ready to do anything to make themselves laugh, even if
it’s embarrassing you to the bottom. You can’t escape this cruel cell, you just
can’t. People like me who tried to change it have faced hardships, rude
comeback and uncolored jokes. It’s like you’re falling, and others watch the
beautiful motion of it, they wouldn’t dare held out their hand for you. But
what if I tell you there’s a way, a code to break this thing away? What if I
say I know a psychological hack? You won’t believe it. No one believes it, it’s
only me. I have this thing that runs in our family’s bloodline and I sure do
complain about it sometimes. No matter what you do, even if you’ll slit my hand
I won’t say a word back, I probably will smile. That’s what I do and that’s
what I saw my father does to every that person who acts rude or was an enemy.
And that’s exactly what my grandfather did during the time of independence. So
it’s been almost three weeks since the college has started, I’ve faced the same
stuff like my fellows have. “The Radioactive Torture of 2nd Year”.
They also came to me to make feel like a piece of crap by saying like giving
them my money, or giving them my water bottle or my half eaten pizza bread or
just move away from the place I’m sitting on. Of course I don’t say a word back;
instead I just either smile or give them what they’re asking for. For two weeks
I shared my lunch with almost half of the college, it isn’t painful, it’s funny
if you consider it. Then I realized these are the same people who went through
these stuff when they were in 1st year, they faced the same stuff
like most of the people do in colleges. And now they’re passing it on us, it’s
like they’re training us for when our time comes, we’ll be ready. Just like us, they also have a story, a story
behind their gleeful faces as they prank us. They did this to us like almost a
week until some of them started realizing how I was acting, and this is it, my
first few friends in the college weren’t my class mates but few 2nd
year boys. Now they ask me if I need a favor or something and I always reject
in respect for them. Judging someone without knowing who he is a very immature
act, you don’t know the play yet you react weird on the scene. That’s why I
like to talk to people around me, know them who they actually are. What they’ve
faced and what they’ve achieved and what else they can do. Being nice isn’t
hard, you just have to smile and do them a favor, and I’m not asking you to
perform a ritual or something, smiling only takes 6 muscles so come on, cheer
up. Put a smile on that dull face and live on, you won’t be confused when
people around you will respect you and know you who you really are and they
won’t be disappointment. Things will always untangle themselves if you let
them, give them time and observe the beauty of it, and if you still think
you’re confused…then let it be the way it is, I assure you’ll be fine. You made
it this far, you can do better.
Smile.
-Zain Rizwan
