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In this world, many stories die when men die. Not all people have the ability to preserve their thoughts in writing for coming generations to read. The thoughts put down on paper will exist even after the authors death. Everyone sees the world in their own way and has different views and beliefs. To preserve and share my ideas and experiences with the world, I have put them in the form of stories, essays, letters and autobiographies. I call this collection The Ocean of Emotions. The ups and downs of life and experiences teach us lessons that we were never taught at school. They stir emotions in us and we act in peculiar ways. Sometimes we open our hearts and tell what we feel, and sometimes we find an outlet for our feelings and emotions. Firstly, in my story category, I have let my hand write what is in my heart about people and things and how I want them to be. Secondly, in the essay section, I have described the values, customs and facts of the world. Thirdly, there are the letters. I really have never sent a love letter to any girl in my life. It may be because of customs of my society, but I wrote many out of my deep emotion of love. Every man on the earth falls in the thing they call love. Only a few people show it; most hide it. I have shared my personal feelings, such feelings people tend to suppress. However, I believe one day every secret in the world will be revealed. If it isnt, what is the use of keeping it in the heart and letting it die with us? Well, some secrets are top secrets and they really must be kept to ourselves. Finally, as far autobiographies go, I have tried to express life stories of inanimate objects. Also, I have written a biography of a little baby who lived only an hour in this world. I have written these biographies in the first person so I entitled them autobiographies. Ideas, beliefs, emotions and people change with the passage of time. Ten years from now, probably I will think differently. So if anybody ever reads this book, he is going to understand what I thought at the time. Also, some facts about the world never change; they remain the same. I had read somewhere that there is time and room for every word. So I hope my writings will somehow be of some help, inspiration, instruction, pleasure, and encouragement to all the readers. Sometimes writers just write about things that they never experienced in life. It is their imagination which takes them in the world where they have never been and they come up with strange and extraordinary things. Read and enjoy my thoughts and make your life better, if you can. Rizwan Ahmed Memon
Village Akil, Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan 17-8-2013 Facebook.com/RizwanAhmedMemon Facebook.com/TheRealLearningCenterLarkana Email: RizwanAhmedMemon@gmail.com Twitter.com/TRLCL Mobile: 03433846385
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Many thanks to Jennifer and Marco for their selflessness, time, and help. Your kindness will always be remembered.
Rizwan Ahmed Memon is an English language and computer teacher. He is also the owner of The REAL Learning Center Larkana. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He teaches English and computer skills at TRLCL and as a private tutor. He writes on different aspects of life and shares his work on his blogs, Facebook, and Twitter.
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Author: Rizwan Ahmed Memon Qasim, a ten-year-old boy, always believed in luck. In last five years, he had won many competitions at his school, including a marathon, singing competition, and a pieeating contest. His father often told him to be optimistic, but also work hard. One day at his school principal announced that there would be a quiz show. Hearing that Qasim whispered into his friends ear, who was sitting beside him, And I will be the winner! I hope so. replied his friend. Thinking that the luck would be on his side as always, Qasim did not prepare much for the show. His parents were looking forward to see another prize in his hands. The quiz show is nearing. Are you preparing for it? said his father. Qasim in an annoyed manner replied, Oh, come on, Dad! Let me play the video game. His father said, What about the quiz? I will win. You will see, said Qasim. Well, son you better wake up and smell the coffee. Everything doesnt come without hard work, said his father. The competition day came and all the students and their parents gathered. Qasim was nervous, as he was not prepared. The quiz show started and from two teams the team leader was supposed to answer. Qasim was his team s leader. The questioner asked, Who gave the speech 'I Have a Dream'? Qasim had not studied his history book. He remained silent, but his opponent gave the correct answer: Martin Luther King. On most of the questions, Qasim remained silent, for he had not studied. The questions were from different subjects from his syllabus. Everybody laughed at Qasim, and his mom and dad were very disappointed. Qasim lost the quiz program. At night, Qasim came into his parents room and said, I am sorry. His father encouraged him and said, You work hard. Do not rely only on luck. His mother further added, Look son, life is not a fairy tale that has some magic in it, which will fix everything. On the contrary, life is all about action. If you rest, you rust. Qasim g ave his word to the parents and said he would always work hard and would not rely just on luck.
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Author: Rizwan Ahmed Memon Holidays mean the time of rest and relaxation. After long days of hard work, holidays give you the opportunity to take thoughts and worries away and just relax in peace. My ideal summer holidays would be on a beach where I can read my favorite novels under a big umbrella, lying on the long deckchair. Spending a couple of days out near the beach and plying on it, sunbathing and fishing along with the person I love the most would be my ideal summer activities. What can be more special than listening to the music of the sea waves, fresh, clean air and a lovely location with romantic atmosphere? I'd make a little sand-castle on the beach that children often make when they play. Wed eat there, make our own tea, fry the fish, and relax and enjoy. Holidays become memorable days of our lives. The holidays which leave pictures in our minds are the holidays that we treasure the most. We all must go on holidays once in a year. In so doing, not only we recover all our energies for the future duties, but also we realize that our lives are not only work and study.
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Author: Rizwan Ahmed Memon Our entrance to this world is our birth, and our exit is our death. All our life from birth till death is characterized by a series of moments. Some moments bring happiness, while others bring sorrow. Nonetheless, our breath goes on till the moment we die. In this series of moments, we get to know some people who become so special for us that our lives seem to be empty without them. Life can be easy for some people and hard for others. What makes it easy is the love and support of friends and family, and what makes it difficult is their carelessness and hatred. As life goes by, we learn unexpected lessons which we could never learn at school, and you never know when the exams are. To pass them, we have to be ready every day, because anything can happen any time. Sometimes, in the middle of happiness or sorrow, we are left behind by our loved ones with memories, tears and a longing to be with them. In those moments of pain and torment, life becomes tough, and our world seems to have just ended; so many people among us even reach the edge of ending their lives. However, with patience and optimism, now and then conditions do change. Before making any choice, we must think it over. This world has so many heavy burdens and responsibilities that our shoulders cannot bear their weight; we become weak, and some circumstances change us entirely, and we never remain the same. It can be our misunderstanding that they ignore us, or they have no respect for us. Their lives might have become more difficult for some reason, and they might be unable to say what is going on in their lives. What is in our hands today might not be there tomorrow. What is not in our possession today, it might be tomorrow. This series of moments brings us so special people, and it can take them away without telling, and it may or may not give us the chance to have them back. So, if you have the privilege, and you have found someone special, or you may find one in future, or you have lost your special one, the point is that you have to be true. There is always a way to keep them in your lives, by praying for them and valuing their each gift and possession that you have. Only true people find true ones. Have faith, be true and love truly forever.
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Dearest Angly, From the day I saw you, I have tried and wished to write to you, but when I took a pen and paper, my hand would not move. I dont know why. I remember when I saw you for the first time. My eyes stopped blinking and my tongue couldnt say a word. I just kept watching. The world around me had disappeared. Now that we are engaged, we still cant see each other or talk with each other. One reason is the conventions of our society, where a boy and girl are not allowed to be in contact even after they are engaged. However, I dont really think much of these traditions in which one cannot do what one wants to. Though we are apart, a thing called trust keeps us together all the time. I have always missed you. Three years ago I left home and came to the university, and ever since I have often thought about you. So many girls are around me studying in one class, but I have always thought about you. In my lonely nights at the hostel, I go up on the roof and watch the twinkling stars and shining moon. They remind me of you. In my evenings I have often gone for a walk and seen the sunset, which consoles me with the knowledge that the days of loneliness and isolation are ending. After my university, I want to start new life with you. God willing, everything will be alright.
Yours forever,
Rizwan
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Dearest Angly,
It's raining again tonight and the time is 1:48. Everything is fine here except I feel your absence more deeply. We could have been together long ago, but some people have been an obstacle in our way. Some say I don't earn anything; others say I won't be able to deal with the challenges of life. However, I am doing my best, and I'll show everyone that I can do anything. Hopefully, God will help me as always. I have done such extraordinary things in a society where hardly anyone does something. I am attending university which is my highest achievement. I've learned how to use the computer and I have been studying English. I consider these my achievements. How can they say I haven't done anything? Soon I will graduate from university and get you anyhow, so my lonely days will cease to exist. I'll work hard to earn enough money to make you happy and fulfill your wishes. I feel sad most of the time without you. People keep hurting me, but I believe that if you were here with me, all my worries and wounds would disappear.
Forever yours,
Rizwan
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I dont have a name to tell you! Since I only lived one hour in this world, my parents couldnt choose a name for me. I di ed before they could even decide a name for me. So I am unnamed! My mother, who is not educated but innocent, thought I was in her womb for about nine months. But she was wrong. I was there for seven months, when she was in labor. An old woman in the village, who looked after pregnant women; came in and said, It looks like the baby isnt ready yet to come out. Dont worry and take some medicine to relieve labor pain. My mother underwent ultrasound test, which clearly showed I was a seven-month-old fetus. Unfortunately, she was unable to read and she never knew that. My father, a religious man, couldnt read as well. My mother was feeling a great pain due to labor, so she went to another woman, who helped those pregnant women too. There my mother said her, It is nine months that I am carrying the baby. So, the woman made my mother give birth through an epidural injection. Then I arrived in this world. I was so weak that I couldnt cry. I was only about an hour in this world when my breath stopped. I wish I could have lived here longer! Oh that my parents were aware enough to help me properly so that I would not have died so soon. It was not hospital where I was born. No proper care for my mother and me! Thus I lost my life! My grandparents and my father concluded saying that it was Gods will. They didnt feel much grief over my death. I was buried soon after my breath stopped!
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Author: Rizwan Ahmed Memon I am large, grown up Neem tree, standing on an Indus riverbed in village Akil, Sindh, Pakistan. I cant really remember who sowed me and when, but people say I was sown two or three decades ago by a villager. Beside me is a shallow body of water and next to it there is Indus River. As I am on up on a riverbed, down it are lovely fields and some other trees. I am all alone up here. People often come and rest under me. Specially, cattle herders, people who graze cattle, like: goatherds, cowherds, shepherds, and buffalo grazers. In addition, people with their friends come and hang out here under me when it is hot day because they get fresh air as I am up as if on a hill. I am strong enough to face the wind and rain. I love sunsets and sunrises. Every day I start my day with more enthusiasm to provide my service to human beings in the form of my dense shadow. Many people in my life have come and gone. One person named Rizwan, has never left me since he started coming to me. Firstly, he used to come with some friends and hang out with them by laughing, joking and chatting, but now he comes alone with a pen and some papers in his pocket. He is quiet and kind. He gently touches me and sometimes climbs up on me to watch village graveyard and see the world from a distance. I appreciate his love and company. I have experienced many aspects of humans lives and have learned a lot about them. I have seen many people in my life from kind and caring people to merciless hunters and hardworking woodcutters, anglers, and from rich to poor. It is an honor for me to provide humans a service of my shadow. I dont know how long I will live still, or when someone will cut me down. However, I still want to live and benefit human beings.
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TRLCL is the center for Computer Science and Linguistics run by Rizwan Ahmed Memon, where he adopts entertaining, easy-to-follow, and effective methods in order to make students learn English and computer faster.
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is a book based on the author's personal experiences. The writings give you the chance to dive into the ocean of emotions, where you will find inspiration, instruction and pleasure by exploring life, dreams, friendship, love, pain, failure, success and more.
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