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A journey of existence spanning years of unforgettable memories
Life is weird. I just had a nap after a cup of coffee. A little expensive, but I love German trains.
En route to Frankfurt, wide awake, I look out the window. The scenes running past give way to other scenes.
I sit back and see the fault lines across my face, the lines that I get to knit now and then. Some event, the birth of a child, a baby boy, in the early ’80s somewhere outside Lahore in Pakistan. The advent of electric wires, a decade later, across the skyline of my village (that was); and then the enthusiasm of climbing up the wall of youth, and the ladder of success. Moments of love and loss (that stretch to this day); punctuated by the sting of thoughts from the people I had only heard/read about but never met; never actually ‘knew’ what they meant. Finally, the culmination of the long journey to the other side of the globe, the crossing over to what I had (already) become – leaving behind what I was