What drives you? Is it the music you hear? Is it the wish of your mother? Is it someone you love? Is it an idea? Is it a movement? Is it your ‘self’? Is it your aim? Is it the prestige that you want? Is it your family? Is it you passion?
What is it? What answer would you get if you question yourself?
What drives me is the idea of doing something and getting myself torn down to pieces and that moment when you say I can’t do it more? That is the point that I love to be in. It fills me with passion and the infinite urge to do more and push the limits. I would really to know what you think about this.
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aircrafts stimulated a lot! it was a janoon of category. it was beyond the realm of ishq for it was janoon! (as per a psychiatrist)
now, only reading, writing, books, gardens, and above all tea motivates... with non-directional loss of focused passion, i wander without going out... too afraid to end up in the wrong places...
do share your posts on facebook and tag serious people...
i should mention: fighter jets only :P
The feeling of success & the rush of happiness I feel motivates me to work even harder.
The reverse can also be pretty eye opening & humbling, the horrid failure after many attempts can be just as motivating.
@hfm,
i could not find a comment section on in your blog, and individual posts even...
how can one comment?
@ Umer toor
The things you mentioned books, gardens, reading, writing are in fact habits, my question was that what drives you to adopt these habits. . .
I will bee tagging my posts from now on wards inshaAllah!
@all
Thanks for the comments. . .
reading, writing is 2nd best love because of the love of books instilled by parents; love of Knowledge by Prophet of Islam and reading about magnanimous scholars of past; the observation of seeing great scholars and thinkers expressing time immemorial ideas, thoughts and arguments in the prison of words takes my breath away as i don't think more than a handful of people can do.
MashaAllah!
This pretty much answers everything.!
:-)
What drives you ? Ammi ke dant !
That's the baseline trigger.I hate it when parents become lenient as we grow up ,leaving us groping for a new trigger.
@Hakuna !
That's an observation i was making while treading on Mall footpath.
I believe this inspector, interventionist upbringing has to be replaced with a more subtle where dant and maar serve as spiritual lessons. reading the life accounts of great islamic scholars of past and today can be useful for parents. and laxity towards children in western countries is worth looking at in traditional families.
@ Hakuna Matata
Well! strikingly i have been keenly observing this very fact also.
Today, parents are so much lenient towards their children they just don't care what are their children are up to and what are they doing.
Even in their childhood they don't bother to teach them what is right and wrong.
I have listened to many sermons on Friday prayers about the obligations of children towards their parents but unfortunately molvi sahb forgets the other way around i.e obligations of parents towards their children.
Sometimes i feel that the previous generation is responsible for the sins this generation is comitting.
And Allah knows best.
@Umer : The subtle way you talk of maybe adopted for coming generations but what about us? We have been programed to respond to parental provoking.And I've observed students whose parents keep loading them with expectations and check and balance perform better in academics than those whose parents just let their kids behave as they wish, saying that they are mature enough to handle their affairs themselves.With great independence, comes great insanity !
@Hassan Habib : I'm all up for being strict with kids. And that wonderfully,also requires parents to be strict with themselves first to set a good example.
Your comment (Sometimes i feel that the previous generation is responsible for the sins this generation is committing)reminded me of something about how since the advent of Freudian psychology,who links back all behaviors to childhood,we've found a new scape goat to blame all our erratic-behavior for, namely our parents.I feel its just an easy escape,nobody gets a perfect upbringing and environment,man's measure is what we chooses to do with what he has
p.s: please remove word check.Believe me,no robot ever visits our blogs :D
Spiritual guides (sufi shaykhs n even religious scholars) have written, taught and practiced a lot self-control and discipline. Psychologists/psychatrists. They all can help a lot. Brain circuitary can be changed with effort i guess.
@ Hakuna Matata
You are right when you said "we've found a new scapegoat"
Destiny prevails.
@ Umer
Must read those scholars before parenting i guess. haha :)
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