The Magician and The Dreamer

yes, i guess she did.. there was no way out for her...:)

Did the girl eventually learn to trust?

Re Biji #20

reading ur reply i remember a joke sent to me a day or two back. Its got nothing to do with the article. :) hehe

regards

Irfan

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(A Chemical Analysis)

Element: Woman

Symbol: WO

Discoverer: Adam

Atomic Weight: Accepted as 118 but is known to vary from 100 - 160 lbs.

Occurence: Surplus quantities in all urban areas.

Physical Properties:

1) Surface usually covered in a painted film.

2) Boils at nothing, freezes without reason.

3) Melts if given proper treatment.

4) Bitter if used incorrectly.

5) Found in various states, ranging from virgin metal to common ore.

Chemical Properties:

1) Possesses great affinity for gold, silver, platinum and other precious metals.

2) Able to absorb great quantities of expensive substances.

3) May explode spontaneously if left with a MALE.

4) Insoluble in liquids but activity greatly increased by saturation in alcohol.

5) Yields to pressure applied to correct points.

Uses:

1) Highly ornamental especially in sports cars.

2) Most poweful money-reducing agent known to man.

3) Can be a great aid in relaxation.

Tests:

1) Pure specimen turns a rosy tint if discovered in natural state.

2) Turns green if placed beside a better specimen.

Caution:

1) Highly dangerous except in experienced hands.

2) Illegal to possess more than one except in certain areas.

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SAC

That & more

If the dreamer is Pakistani Feminist

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10 Top Things Pakistani Feminists Say Loudly



10. I will never marry a Pakistani man.

9. Daddy I want to go out on a date.

9. Ufff, do i have to wear the jhumka too ?

8. This gold chooRee is too thin.

7. Don`t call me auntie.

6. Don`t call me baaji.

5. MaiN..!! aur bus meiN jaoongee ?

4. Bhaijaan, iss kee qeemat kum kareiN naaaaN ..

3. I will not cook, sweep the floor or make babies for you.

2. All Pakistani men are chauvanist except for my Dad.

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1. Khansaama, biryani pakaO.

nist

too often, dreaming and hoping, instead of becoming reality, become substitutes for reality.

Re MonaSehgal # 15

Very true. One should be realistic rather than hope too much. I`m not saying u shouldn`t hope but while facing the reality and the point where u stand!

Hope is a relative term. I can hope for a sound and prosperous future but can`t hope to be the next CE.. can I? I don`t think so.

regards

Irfan

Zeejah,

A story of hope is often accompanied by magic.
Keep weaving your tales for readers here on CHOWK.
A Writer dreams up the story. It is the reader
that experiences the magic.

Ras

The magician needs the dreaming girl as much as the girl needs the magician. In real life the story ends when the magician runs away with the girl`s younger sister and the girl ends up with the man with the 3 carat (Hope) diamond!!

Ain`t life grand?

later

-sac

Beautiful!

But sometimes too much hope and too much dreaming makes one go for illusions, which when broken only lead to distress and sorrow and at that moment even hope leaves.

Mona

actually, dreams r not just imagination, with enuf belief, u can make them come true...all it takes is belief and concentration... but that would make another article...;)

Very nice fairytale - anytihng involving hope is just that ultimately. Reality conditions you for common sense which screams - get over it, get over it. But overall a very sweet story which has touched too many chords !!

aicha

a very good article zeejah...i enjoyed reading it very much.i believe that these dreams of ours bring us hope.

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Re Zeejah.

Beautiful piece of writing. Dreams are not as simple and for-granted as we take them to be.

I often think if God hadn`t given us the power to dream, we couldn`t live to face another day!

The dream serves as a substitute for a number of thoughts derived from our daily life, and which fit together with perfect logic. We cannot, therefore, doubt that these thoughts have their own origin in our normal mental life. All the qualities which we value in our thought-processes, and which mark them out as complicated performances of a high order, we shall find repeated in the dream-thoughts. There is, however, no need to assume that this mental work is performed during sleep; such an assumption would badly confuse the conception of the psychic state of sleep to which we have hitherto adhered. On the contrary, these thoughts may very well have their origin in the daytime, and, unremarked by our consciousness, may have gone on from their first stimulus until, at the onset of sleep, they have reached completion. If we are to conclude anything from this state of affairs, it can only be that it proves that the most complex mental operations are possible without the cooperation of consciousness- a truth which we have had to learn anyhow from every psycho-analysis of a patient suffering from hysteria or obsessions. These dream-thoughts are certainly not in themselves incapable of consciousness; if we have not become conscious of them during the day, this may have been due to various reasons. The act of becoming conscious depends upon a definite psychic function- attention- being brought to bear. This seems to be available only in a determinate quantity, which may have been diverted from the train of thought in question by other aims. Another way in which such trains of thought may be withheld from consciousness is the following: From our conscious reflection we know that, when applying our attention, we follow a particular course. But if that course leads us to an idea which cannot withstand criticism, we break off and allow the cathexis of attention to drop. Now, it would seem that the train of thought thus started and abandoned may continue to develop without our attention returning to it, unless at some point it attains a specially high intensity which compels attention. An initial conscious rejection by our judgment, on the ground of incorrectness or uselessness for the immediate purpose of the act of thought, may, therefore, be the cause of a thought-process going on unnoticed by consciousness until the onset of sleep.

But hope is indeed the last resort for a dreamer.

I myself am a dreamer, everyone is! Its hope that keeps us going. I dream of things that are out of my reach or places that i`ve never been to before. But its hope that teaches me to keep struggling.



regards

Irfan

A verse for ur dreamy article...

If we can`t hope or wish or dream,

Then wuts the use of being a human being?

So sad to read that the dreamer depends solely on this magician for her `best` dreams. Is it always so?