Amazing Facts & Human life

The human mind is always in search for novelty. As said variety is spice of life, people by nature keep looking for new things and amazing facts.

Most of people in the world lead a pretty bring and normal life. They do not have many things to enjoy in life. They keep looking for new things to enjoy in their life. Entertainment is a basic human need and to satisfy this need people have come up with lots of means of entertainment and amusement. Arts, drama, music, dance, etc have been invented with the purpose of entertainment as well as exploring human creativity

Lots of people find another way to keep themselves engaged - traveling. Traveling to unknown and exotic places of the world can make people forget their blues and feel rejuvenated. You also come to know about lots of amazing facts, that you did not know earlier, about the places and the whole world.

The world is like a big book and if someone has not traveled to any place in the world they have read only one page of the book. Tourism has turned out to be a huge industry worldwide as humans get struck by wanderlust once in a while. Traveling to new places and knowing about new cultures and lifestyle can make one wise about the diversity and variety of the world. It can also forge love for humanity and a proper underrating of our differences. It is seen that people suffer from xenophobia only because they do not know about others. People fear unknown things by nature. So, traveling is a great way to promote world peace.

Various forms of arts like cinema can also promote world peace as people come to know about cultures of other people after watching any film. Music
is also great for fostering human bonding. It is said that music has no language. People tend to like music of other cultures even without understating the lyrics.

It is a wise decision to travel all over the world and experience various cultures of the world. You come to know about many amazing facts that way.

How should this character look ???

I have this one female character who is an angel. Not exactly a guardian angel, but she comes down to Earth to help my main character who is also a girl. (Just mentioning that so everyone knows there is no romance involved in this story) Anyway, the main character won't know she's an angel into the end. While on Earth, she constantly bugs the main character because she wants the main character to continue working on her dream, I know it sounds corny and religious, but it has nothing to do with religion. I'm just wondering if she should have the stereotypical pale skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed look, or not. What do you think? I know it's not a lot of information but thanks for your help.

What is LOVE???

How do you define love?

Some say it's mysterious, magical, complex, difficult, imaginary, thought-provoking, inspirational, intuitional, joyous, immeasurable, ecstasy, and undefinable. Perhaps.

In one of Dr. John Gray's audio cassettes he defines love as follows: "Love is a feeling directed at someone which acknowledges their goodness."

On the same cassette, he refers to the definition by M. Scott Peck: "The willful intent to serve the well being of another.

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness Sys(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

We love because it's the only true adventure." - Nikki Giovanni

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature." - Howard Thurman

"Love is like war: Easy to begin but hard to end." - Anonymous
Where love is, no room is too small." - Talmud
"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde

"Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever." - unknown

Finally i think it's very complex to define word "love"

Everyone can feel love but can not define.

I also do love but i can not define
Love is not for any specific person anyone could love with anyone.

love with Allah, love with parents, love with spouse, love with son, love with daughter, love with animal,

Challenge to Succeed ? Yes:

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way.

What's the significance of life? Who are we?

Is human life just a dream, from which we never really awake, as some great thinkers claim? Are we submerged by our feelings, by our loves and hates, by our ideas of good, bad, beautiful, awful? Are we incapable of knowing beyond those ideas and feelings?

Listen to Shakespeare and Joseph Conrad:

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep…
William Shakespeare,

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
Joseph Conrad,

Is the reality we know a reality imposed to us by nature? Is the reality and the meaning of life a creation of men, such as music, or love or colors (science tells us that there isn't such things as music, harmony or colors in the physic world. Just traveling molecules: «There is not, external to us, hot or cold, but only different velocities of molecules; there aren’t sounds, callings, harmonies, but just variations in the pressure of the air; there aren’t colors, or light, just electro-magnetic waves», said H. Von Foerster.).

Are we - and all living beings - just «survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes», as Richard Dawkins states? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?

Is there any significance for life in a Universe of billions of stars that ignore us? Is there any significance for life in an Universe whose dimensions and nature overcome our understanding?

Listen to the words of Pascal, in the seventeenth century:

«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity that lies before and after it, when I consider the little space I fill and I see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I rest frightened, and astonished, for there is no reason why I should be here rather than there. Why now rather than then? Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time have been ascribed to me?»

Life Experience,Life is Good, Life of every Type of Person, Life of Poor & Rich man, Glamber

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What is Life and Meaning of Life?

What is meaning of life? Does this sound like a strange question to you? Of course we all know what is meant by the word "life", but how would you define it?

Do all living things move? Do they all eat and breathe? Even though we all seem to know what is meant by saying something is "alive", it's not very easy to describe what "life" is. It's almost as hard as describing where life came from.

Even the biologists (people who study life) have a tough time describing what life is! But after many years of studying living things, from the mold on your old tuna sandwich to monkeys in the rain forest, biologists have determined that all living things do share

some things in common:

1) Living things need to take in energy
2) Living things get rid of waste
3) Living things grow and develop
4) Living things respond to their environment
5) Living things reproduce and pass their traits onto their offspring
6) Over time, living things evolve (change slowly) in response to their environment

Therefore, in order for something to be considered to "have life" as we know it, it must possess these characteristics.

Challenge to Succeed ? Yes

It is a challenge to succeed. If it were not, I’m sure more people would be successful, but for every person who is enjoying the fruit from the tree of success, many more are examining the roots. They are trying to figure it all out. They are mystified and perplexed by what seems to be some strange, complex and elusive secret that must be found if ever success is to be enjoyed. While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily engaged in designing and enjoying a fortune. Everything just seems to work out for them. While the much larger group sits in awe at how life can be so unfair, complicated and unjust.

“I am a nice person,” the man says to himself. “How come this other guy is happy and rich, and I’m always struggling?” He asks himself, “I am a good husband, a good father and a good worker. How come nothing seems to work out for me? Life just isn’t fair. I’m even smarter and willing to work harder than some of these other people who just seem to have everything going their way,” he says as he slumps into the sofa to watch another evening of television. But you see you’ve got to be more than a good person and a good worker. You’ve got to become a good planner, and a good dreamer.

You’ve got to see the future finished in advance. You’ve got to put in the long hours and put up with the setbacks and the disappointments. You’ve got to learn to enjoy the process of disciplines and of putting yourself through the paces of doing the uncomfortable until it becomes comfortable. You’ve got to be prepared and willing to attack the challenges if you want the success because challenges are part of success. Now that may sound like a full menu of activities, but let me assure you that the process of going from average to fortune isn’t really all that difficult. Thinking about it is the difficult part. Anticipating all the effort and the changes and the disciplines is far worse in the mind than in reality. I can promise you that the challenges you’ll meet on the road to success are far less difficult to deal with than the struggles and the disappointments that come from being average. Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

I've often said that to have more, we must first become more, and to become more, we must begin the process of working harder on ourselves than we do on anything else. But in addition to gathering new knowledge, new skills and new experiences; it is also important to discover new emotions. It is how we feel about what we know that makes the biggest difference in how our lives turn out. How we feel about the chances we have and the choices we have determines the intensity of our effort. Whether we try or don’t try. Join or don’t join. Believe or don’t believe.

I’d like for you to discover some strong feelings about your life and about what you want to do with that life. You probably have much of the knowledge and a lot of the experience and perhaps most of the skills that it takes to become successful. What you may be lacking in are the strong feelings about what you want and what you want to do. You may be one of those who have become so involved in the process of earning a living that you’ve forgotten about the choices and the chances you have for designing your own life.

Let these strong feelings help you take a second look at your life and where you’re headed. After all, you’ve only got one life, at least on this planet. So why not make it an adventure in achievement? Why not discover what all you can do and what all you can have? Why not discover how many others you can help and in the process how that can help you?

Why not now take the Challenge to Succeed!

All Pakistanis Are Terrorists?

CLEARLY IT'S A NONSENSICAL HEADLINE.

A true story of real Pakistani who was in USA. This fact is not fun. Please read it carefully and seriously think about.

But a quick glance across news headlines on Tuesday May 4 reveals the two top stories are both about young Pakistani men, one a resident of Lahore, the other with a background similar to mine, a Western citizen of Pakistani descent.

The first has been convicted with terrorism offenses in India, the second arrested in connection with the Times Square foiled bomb attempt.

Now, I have no idea whether the chap arrested in connection with New York offenses is a terrorist or not. But it almost does not matter.

Form of racism

Pakistanis and those of Pakistani descent are once again under the spotlight. It's a form of racism and anger is building because of it.
Pakistanis and those of Pakistani descent are once again under the spotlight. It's a form of racism and anger is building because of it.

I travel a lot. In the last eight months I have visited the US a number of times.

Each time I have been pulled into secondary immigration, a sort of holding pen whilst your validity to enter the US is checked out.

It takes at least three hours and, after a 14-hour flight, is not a welcome proposition.

Same questions

The questions are always the same: Why are you here? Who are you visiting? My answers inevitably are always the same. No matter, each time I had to go through the process.
A visa application of mine to a country I won't name has been put through a much more stringent process because I am of Pakistani descent.

In 2005, I travelled to Israel, where yet again I was stopped and asked several questions about my family background. It was just after the 7/7 bombings in London. A crime committed by, as you probably recall, British men of Pakistani descent.

I arrived having travelled through Jordan. I was carrying a British passport, holding $10,000 in cash (for our bureaux, not personal funds, I might add).

My full name is Mohammed Imran Khan and I work for Al Jazeera.

Oh, and I was carrying a rucksack, the favoured delivery method of the 7/7 bombers. It took me five hours to clear customs. I was never told why.

How things are

Trifling, I know, when compared to the Palestinian experience, but indicative of how things are.

In the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem, I bumped into a fairly well known BBC reporter and former colleague of mine. I told him the story of my crossing.

"What do you expect," he said. "You are Pakistani."

Except I am not. I am British.

In the UK, where I was born and have lived the vast majority of my life, I was stopped and searched.

Once, when I was working for that most British of Institutions, the BBC, I was stopped filming when a nosey policeman ran my name through the system.

It was clearly red-flagged. His response was terse when I requested to get on with my job. "You are in our system," he said. The BBC to their credit took up the matter with the police, but I have no idea whether it made any difference.

It is frustrating. But I have got used to my status of being of Pakistani descent not being a plus point. For others, though, it breeds anger and resentment.

Subject of Pakistan

Three weeks ago I was staying in New York, just few blocks away from Times Square. I was sitting with a friend, just talking about everything and nothing as one does.

The subject of Pakistan came up and I shared my thoughts. The bartender overheard our conversation and said something startling to me: "Do you know where Bin Laden is?"

I was shocked, but not surprised. My American friend, however, carefully picked up his vodka and cranberry juice, took a small sip and then poured the rest of it on the floor.

He then opened his wallet, left a large tip and walked silently out of the bar. He later told me that he felt it was simple racism that he would not tolerate.

My Pakistani friends across the West often complain of racism.

Pakistan has become terror central and it's most public export is terrorism, it would seem.

Plurality of Pakistan

I have long given up trying to explain to people about the plurality of Pakistan and the Pakistani diaspora.

I have long given up on trying to talk about how Pakistan's biggest export into India is pop music, how Pakistani fashion designers produce beautiful collections that sell for thousands of dollars all over the world, of how Pakistani artists are producing some incredible and very modern work.

No, I listen as people rail against my background, accuse me of being a terrorist or the very least a terrorist sympathiser.

But here is the rub. Ancient cultures are littered with references to something called a "self-fulfilling prophecy'.

Call someone something and they eventually become that thing. Call Pakistanis terrorist and guess what? You will have Pakistani terrorists.



Anger builds


It's a simplistic argument, but when faced with visa delays, when asked personal questions about my background from Po-faced border guards, when stopped and searched by police officers, an anger does build.

My protestations about being British don't count. They see my skin colour and my name and they see one thing.

A threat. I smile and hope common sense prevails, and to be fair it often does.

But as Pakistani terror fills the headlines, I wonder how long it will be before this kind of racism becomes normal.

HOW WE CAN LIVE HAPPAY?

INTRODUCTION:

1)Are most people happy? Dennis Wholey, author of Are You Happy reports that according to expert opinion, perhaps only about 17 percent in Pakistan and 20 percent of Americans are truly happy.

2) Why is it that most people are not happy? I think I may know the answer to that question.

3) People look for happiness in all the wrong places.

4) The reason why most people are not happy is that they look for true happiness in worldly things. The Bible teaches that worldly things cannot bring us true happiness

ILLUSTRATION:

Some time ago, a man and his son decided to find out the secret to happiness. So one day, they turned on their computer, booted up a search engine on the Internet, and typed in the words “true happiness” hoping they would find the answers.

However, after several minutes of searching, the computer said, "No documents match the search." In other words, the computer indicated that true happiness could not be found in the world.

A) Money cannot bring us true happiness.

"But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."

1) When making money becomes the number one priority in our lives, we will neglect Allah, our families, and ourselves, and it will cause us much heartache. Money does not bring us happiness, it simply provides for our needs.

ILLUSTRATION:

Jay Gould, an American millionaire, had lots of money. However, when he was dying, he said, “I suppose I am the most miserable man on earth.

THIS MORNING, I WILL PRESENT A PRINCIPLES ON HOW WE CAN LIVE HAPPY LIVES.

I. TO LIVE HAPPY LIVES, WE MUST GIVE OUR HEARTS TO THE LORD AND RECEIVE HIS SALVATION.

"Surely Allah is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. In that day you will say: Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name; make known among the nations what He has done, and proclaim that His name is exalted. Sing to the Lord, for He has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”

1) When we receive salvation, and deliverance from the bondage of sin, we should experience joy and happiness. Like Isaiah, we should shout aloud and sing for joy.

2. When Jesus Christ enters into our lives, we cannot help but to rejoice. Do remember what the Ethiopian Eunuch did after he gave his life to Jesus and was baptized? The Bible says that he

How we can Reduce Terrorism and Definition of Terrorism

in my opinion, terrorism happens mainly when there is communal activities. frankly speaking, communication is a man made affair. it can be resolved only with the wholehearted efforts of all the countries by eradication of communal activities. We should keep in mind that we can not eliminate terrorism by war. Only war is not solution of terrorism, we will also have to reduce poverty from the world
there may be other reasons also.

First we should know how terrorism takes place


Definition of Terrorism

"Terrorism is a scourge that affects all of us as it threatens the very way of life we have come to cherish.
It challenges the economic and political institutions we have erected. It undermines the principles of interaction among states. It negates due process. And worst of all, it fails to adhere to internationally accepted standards for conflict resolution.
…
Terrorists destroy vital social and economic infrastructure in their arbitrarily selected target countries.
Through their actions, terrorists deprive innocent victims of their livelihoods.
In their existence, terrorists undermine the will of the governed and the internationally accepted."

History of Terrorism and it’s Solution
The history of terrorism shows us that the best way to suppress it is to explore its roots and identify the causes which engender it and find just solutions to the different conflicts. What happened in the United States places the international community in a position of great responsibilities but terrorism was not born on September 11, 2001. It will not be eradicated by military means or by being treated as a mere problem of law and security. Developed armaments and new techniques are not sufficient response either."

How an ordinary person becomes a Terrorist

I read many comments, about how a man become terrorist.

There is not doubt, each person has his own way represents

Someone says,

1) Due to their circumstances and their thought.

2) When he was made alone from his relatives and surroundings.

3) When his discoveries or ideas are neglected,he will use his ideas in a wrong manner to kill those who neglected it.

4) Terrorists don't have job opportunities.The Bad egg uses this opportunity and brainwashes him/her to do evil and anti national activities which according to them is considered as doing good thing to their religion.

I think no nobody would not like to be a terrorist, but circumstances and other illegal activities which he don't like.

Anyone without any reason does not kill anyone. Assume I do not respect you then will you respect me? Surely not , I know you respect me until I will respect me.

How we can Eliminate Global/World Poverty

If we want to stop Global/World poverty. It is important that each one should help the poor. But sadly the chances of that happening are very low.

We know it is difficult but not impossible. I would like to tell you a simple way how we can stop poverty. it will take time but we can overcome poverty

HOW WE SHOULD START CAMPAIGN

We should start a campaign from home.

When we eliminate poverty from the Home, then we should try to end poverty from the Area
When we eliminate poverty from the Area, then we should try to end poverty from the State
When we eliminate poverty from the State, then we should try to end poverty from the country
When we eliminate poverty from the Country, then we should try to end poverty from the World/Global

Thanks for your visit

Pakistan How To Become An Advanced Country.

Role of police and other Government Employee’s in Pakistan is very bad if the Pakistani police and other government employees be honest with your work, then many problems will be over.
Because many problems is created by police and other government employees. They are not honest with job. Any type of work they should just pay it will work.
If you go to police stations for any complain. Unless you will not give bribes to any police officer. Nobody will enter your complain.

Now we are talking about other government employees. Unless you will not give bribe to other government officer they also will not work for you

Built by our people that the problems we are facing in Pakistan. It is not lack anything in Pakistan if it is missing only the righteous will end all problems if we are honest in our work are will

It is my humble requests to all Pakistani brothers please do work for the development of Pakistan. Please do not destroy or discredit the Pakistan now and try to helps the poor Pakistan brother’s…. Please Please Please
ALLAH BLESS YOU.

Life of a Common Man in Pakistan

Life of a common man in Pakistan is very difficult. Because increasing in prices of edible items has made the life of a common man miserable. Increasing in prices of edible items is very dangerous for Pakistan and a common man. Because industries of Pakistan being destroying due to increasing of prices ( most of economy of Pakistan depend on industry). the government of Pakistan should think about this and solve it as soon as possible if they want to see happy of a common man in Pakistan. Rising inflation in Pakistan also creating problems (Rising inflation in Pakistan is contributing in high rate of suicide, increasing crime and many other illegal activities destroying to Pakistan. Just imagine the average salary of a common man in Pakistan is 4000/ 5000 PKR. Common edible things in Pakistan are very expensive. A common man who is earning 4000/5000 per month so how a common Pakistani is managing its living.

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In this time of inflation government seems to be helpless in providing relief to the people. Value of money is going down, petroleum prices is increasing which contribute much in rising inflation but no steps have been taken to control it. Pakistan is engaged in war against terror and we are loosing billions dollars and in return getting nothing. As an affected citizen it is my humble request to government of Pakistan should at least give some relaxation in price of food items and they should resign because they fail in every thing and do not make the life of a common man hell any more. (Allah Bless Pakistan)

How you should start your life as an Actor or Actress!

Do you dream of the lights, the cameras, the ACTION! All of it comes with being an actor or actress, but there are many challenges in becoming a successful performer.

Step 1

The first thing is to decide a few things: Are you wanting to be a professional full time actor/actress or stay as an amateur? How are you going to survive financially till your successful? Are you willing to relocate or travel?

Step 2

To get started you need to take acting class; the more the better. Good actors have studied the art and have put in many hours of practice. This is also a good way to land gigs and make acquaintances.


Step 3

If your wanting to make it big, your going to have to travel or relocate to a city that actually does filming. LA and New York are the big ones but they are also the toughest in the business and in general.

Step 4

Build a fancy resumé. Your going to want to list all of your current experience such as the classes you took and any gigs you may have done. Your also going to want professional looking photo's to make the resumé look really good. See related articles for more info.

Step 5

Get noticed! There are many papers and online publications in your desired field. Know what is being cast where and go to every single audition. Starting off is not the time to be picky! Build, build, build that resumé! Attend any events regarding your field such as seminars, parties, shows etc. Your also going to need to send out your resumé to all casting directors or agency you can find.

Life Death

Do you believe in life after death?

Too often I find that the subject of death is addressed with goofy speculation, close-minded stubbornness, or outright fear and avoidance. So let's bypass the "Death for Dummies" approach and take a deeper intellectual look at death to better understand the important role it plays in our lives... and especially what it can teach us about how to live.

As far as our human bodies are concerned, death eventually captures all of us. As far as I can tell, no human being has yet managed to live forever. Even if we evolve new silicon bodies for ourselves and find a way to transfer our minds into them, there's no reason to believe those bodies will be immortal either (even with frequent upgrades). We may be able to delay death, perhaps even for a very long time, but eventually our physical existence will end at some point. Forever is too long for us to last as physical beings. No backup system is foolproof, especially when its opponent is the infinity of time.

On average more than 150,000 people die every day on this planet. That's 2 people per second. Over a million corpses a week. And this is "normal" for planet earth. Does this fact help you get some perspective on the scope of various tragedies? If 3000 people get wiped out in a single stroke, that's still only 2% of one day's total... hardly significant from a cosmic point of view.

And here's the worst part. You don't even know when you'll die (unless you're reading this right before committing suicide, in which case I'd better keep writing). But my guess is that you don't have an item labeled "die" on your to do list or in your tickler file.

So how comfortable do you feel with the idea that today might be your last day alive?

For 150,000 people today, that's about to become the reality, so if you happen to be among them, you'll have plenty of company. I wonder how many of those people feel prepared for what awaits them.

What do we really know about what happens after death?

Instead of launching into stories about near-death experiences and what various religions say, let's try sneaking up on this problem from a different angle. Let's ask this question instead:

What can we reasonably say does NOT happen after death?

Obviously what's "reasonable" will differ a bit from person to person based on his/her context and beliefs, but I think most of us can agree on some fairly basic observations.

First, you can't take it with you. All your physical stuff stays here. Whenever someone dies, we notice that their stuff remains in the physical world. It doesn't suddenly vanish.

Another thing we notice is that our physical bodies stay here. That includes our heart, lungs, brain, hemp tattoos, etc.

Also, it's fair to say that because the physical stuff stays here, then any knowledge and skills you've developed which are rooted in the physical world will become obsolete when you die. Your knowledge of HTML probably won't be of much use in the afterlife, unless of course there are dead computers in the afterlife too, such as my old Atari 800. I hope you still know BASIC.

If we manage to retain anything of ourselves after death, it seems reasonable to say that it won't include any of our physical stuff or our physical bodies. And much of our knowledge will be obsolete as well.

If we can take anything with us after death then, it would have to be something non-physical in nature. And the non-physical part of ourselves is our consciousness. You can call it other names if you wish -- soul, spirit, etc. The exact term you use doesn't really matter. I'll use the term consciousness.

So we have a couple alternatives that seem reasonable to me:

1. After we die we retain some part of our consciousness, but all the physical parts of our existence are lost.
2. After we die we cease to exist. Our consciousness gets wiped out along with the physical. Dead and gone forever.

How Commit Suicide

I was depressed, but I wanted to deny it. I began to have thoughts of how to commit suicide. I knew that I was very discouraged because the events in my life were not going in the direction that I wanted or expected them to go. But could I really be depressed? Was suicide a possibility? Surely, I could deal with this! I didn't need help. I could handle this on my own. After all, things weren't that bad, were they?

Then menacing thoughts began entering my head - ways to commit suicide. I wondered how to tie the right knot to create a noose. Would that pole up there be strong or high enough to hang myself? Would I have the physical capability to accomplish such a feat? These methods of suicide were frightening thoughts. Where had they come from? How had they gotten into my head?

Later, the thoughts became more insistent. It was as if these thoughts had a character all their own, a separate entity, that had somehow taken residence inside my brain. I was starting to get worried and wondered if I needed help. I was not moving beyond this and the horrifying thoughts were getting worse!

I didn't tell anyone about these thoughts. They were so horrific to me - to my usual upbeat, outgoing personality. I was afraid to tell people for fear that they would minimize my feelings and make me feel ashamed. They might reject me and I couldn't deal with those reactions. I was trying so hard to cope with what was happening to me. I wanted to be strong. I wanted to believe in Allah. I tried very hard to think positively. Maybe I could purge that terrifying intruder who had begun to reside in my brain!

I attempted to deal with the depression on my own, but the insistent voice became stronger. I reached a point where I figured out a method of suicide and wondered how I should phrase the suicide note that I would leave for my family. One part of my brain mulled these thoughts in a totally irrational manner while the more rational part of my brain knew suicide was wrong and that it would destroy my family. It was almost as though I were two people at times - the person controlled by this insistent voice and the other part of me that loved Allah and believed that He did have a good plan for my life in spite of the painful trial that I was so deeply immersed in.

How To Commit Suicide - Silencing the Intruder
My thoughts were centered on how to commit suicide. I knew I was in trouble and needed suicide help. I could not deal with this on my own. The thoughts were too much! I needed help! Deep in my heart, I knew that Allah loved me. I didn't understand how He could love me, but I believed that He did. I first sought my pastor's wife, a person I respected very much. I was surprised and comforted to know that she had gone through some serious depression and understood what I was going through. She encouraged me to not fear medication and counseling. With a combination of medications, counseling, and Allah's help, I am greatly improved and no longer depressed. The horrifying intruder has never returned.

If that terrifying intruder has brought thoughts to your mind, don't hurt yourself. You are loved! No matter what your situation is, there is help. Don't be prideful or ashamed like I was. Talk to a doctor, counselor, church leader, or suicide prevention center. Get the help that you need and deserve. You don't need to live in depression or frustration.

How To Commit Suicide - Understanding Allah's Love
God knows that you are contemplating how to commit suicide. Although at the time I could not see it, I now realize how much God loves me. I know that He was there to protect me and that He put people into my path to help me through that difficult time. I have learned so much about how wide, how high, how long, and how deep Allah's love is.

I have seen that He willingly put His Son, Jesus, to death for me so that I did not have to. As I picture Jesus hanging there on the cross, with a heart full of love for me, He asks, "Is this not enough?"

Does Allah Care?

Becoming A Professional Gambler

Anyone who takes down a big score while gambling has thought about it.

What would it be like to be a professional gambler?

What would it be like to live in Vegas and gamble for a living?

pro gambler playing roulette - adding chips Now, The King is not going to be the person to stop you from pursuing your dreams.

However, you need to know how many "professional" gamblers live before you make an informed decision regarding your future.

Many professional gamblers are broke or close to it.

Many professional gamblers owe great sums of money to other gamblers - lending and borrowing is very prevalent in the gambling community.

Many professional gamblers go through "boom" and "bust" cycles where they are either doing really well, or struggling just to get by.

Many professional gamblers liquidate assets whenever they are on a downswing. This leads many to have zero in the way of net worth. No houses, cars or other investments. Many have either cash or jewelry as their only assets.

Many professional gamblers live "off the radar", meaning that they don't file taxes or have any other sort of similar activity.

Many professional gamblers are divorced and have broken families.

These are just facts. While not ALL professional gamblers lead this type of lifestyle, most do.

The King's recommendation?

Keep your job and play at night and on the weekends. Take multiple trips to Vegas every year if you want (hey, it's dirt cheap right now). Just don't quit your day job, because this is a tough business.