A Lost Gem

(Shahbaz Munawar Kazmi, Mianwali)

Once there was a boy who was looking for the meaning of life. He was full of zeal and zest . He had keen towards life. His enthusiasm touched sky. He wants to become the best scientist of the world. And he can do anything to accomplish his goal. His name was KAZIM.

The closest relation he had was his family and but family always underestimate and never showered love for him. His mother died early and father married again. Father was much busier with his second wife and had no time to listen to the concern of his son. He was devoid of the parental love anyway And this gave him repression in life.

When a boy is unable to find love from his parents , he tries to find love somewhere else . Kazim fell in love with a girl named Armish. They talked together, laughed together walked together and slept together. Day by day his love became stronger and unbreakable for her. As strong as iron. She was the strongest support he ever had . But everyone meets to depart . When someone don't want to stay they find a reason to leave. She find it and walk away breaking him into many pieces. Armish broke his already broken heart. Kazim life became much worse because addiction of people is worse of all addiction.

Kazim's heart was burning. First he lost his parental love them his girl. Unable to find love and to focus on goals, he wandered aimlessly. He loitered for no reason finding no one and going no where. Lost in his ownself . He find some friends. Some bad fellas . With them he started smoking cigarettes. He was in pain and grief and all he wanted was pleasure. Cigarette had nicotine and nicotine gave him pleasure .With the passage of time habits become addiction. He got addicted. First he had addiction of girl and now he has addiction of smoking making his life worse. A day without cigarette is not a day worth living .Extreme addiction made him lost his conscious. He started stealing for livinghood . He start using girl for his see animal pleasures and start commiting crimes . While committing crime ,he got arrested and went to jail.

Problem chasing problem making his life sick. He learnt to survive without his parents and girl . But this it was difficult to survive and jail without smoking. He was like a fish out of a water. He suffered again as usual. Adversities were his friends and happiness was his enemy. After spending a hard life , Kazim release from jail. He was the same Kazim who was keen towards life had goals and whose enthusiasm touched sky. He got what?
Nothing.

He was living but not living.

It was the dark evening of Sunday. The sun was setting . Kazim was loitering thinking about the suffering of his past .It stopped his foot. He lied on ground looking at the sky the way we look something in despair. While unable to find the meaning of life,his body stopped movement,his eyes got closed ,his lungs stopped inhaling and Kazim's heart stop throbbing.

Shahbaz Munawar Kazmi
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