joining the dots
Posted by anasimtiaz on Jun 9, 2010 in Life | 18 commentsIt bewilders me to look back at some of the things that have happened in life and how they’re connected to my present. There is a definite pattern in life. Its like events in the past happened because they were required in the future and not because I decided them to happen. They just happened. There are many aspects in which pattern may be found but I will talk about just one here which is quite strange, in a good way.
When I joined NUST for undergrad, we had this C language course in the first sem and we were required to do a project towards its end. It was an open choice so the group decided to work on matrices calculation implementing some algorithms to find inverse of n-dimensional matrix and that stuff. It was a tedious task at that time, doing C language for the first time. I didn’t think much and just went with the group. Call this event 1. Next so-called event was my love for microcontrollers in which I spent quite a lot of extra time (nearly 2 years of fun) apart from the 6-month mandatory course, it just happened to be my favourite. And then the final event of undergrad studies was my final year project which was in image processing, out of the blue. We were almost ready to propose some topic when something happened and we decided to change it. All these things happened and then when I went for Masters, what project do I get? I get to implement something on microcontroller based system (related to event 2) which involved heavy usage of matrices and the whole thing to be coded in C (similar to event 1). And just because I did that stuff in undergrad I was at home doing this project. The research part of this project involved some complex mathematical compression techniques. In the VHDL coursework that I did, I was supposed to design a vector display processor (2-d graphics) and my part involved mainly getting the pixels, storing them in some order (caching) so that they can be easily displayed.
And now when I get a job, I’m working in the graphics group which is related to image processing field. What do I get to work on? Some caching stuff which, the concept of which is similar to what I designed (although much much more advanced). Also I get to work on some compression/decompression stuff again for which my earlier experience came in handy. Now it should be noted here that I am not given this task based on my CV. It just so happened that I was free and there was work to be done and hence I got it.
Anyway, the point I tried to make here in a very convoluted manner is that there is some method behind every single event that transpires in life. Indeed, Allah(swt) is the Planner and He has it all planned for us. The dots are already there on the sheet, the joining takes place as time passes and then begins to come out a clearer picture.
PS. Apologies for the technical stuff there, I just couldn’t simplify it :\
thanks for making me feel stupid :@
hhmm but a very thought provoking post… u r probably right… but most of the times some events of our life never make sense… we never understand why it happened in the first place…. what was the purpose…
exactly..they dont make sense at that time…later they will…there is a method behind everything…or atleast that’s what im concluding
Very true! destiny
Destiny, yes. Understanding is the key point here.
that is the Karma behind every Man
And I thought there was a woman behind every man. Karma kis ka naam hai?
Karma bachi ka naam hai.
The most profound and faith-requiring thing in this whole dotted deal (pun not really intended
), is that we gotta wait – wait it out till the end… and after considerable dots are added (or joined you may say) on the paper of life do we ACTUALLY understand that the things that happened were meant to happen.. for this this particular reason.
So we know at the end – and till then, we gotta have faith.
Good post.
Finally! Someone understood exactly what I tried to say. Thanks
Allah is the best planner. He makes us do things in a certain way and then He also lets us feel good euphoric about ourselves for having done things in that way. Isnt it just amazing how everything is already all planned for us, scripted for us and we are only performing them.
Waisay .. I wouldn’t say everything is scripted. There are certain events that have been written down, yeah. But the reactions we have and the further actions we take are definitely our own doing. Thus, this statement that everything is scripted for us makes humans sound like some stringed puppets or something. Which we’re not. Hopefully you didn’t mean that
You said it all!!
that’s so true. we can only connect dots looking backwards..and living in present we can only have faith that those dots can be connected somehow in future..
A person who has written some programs would not consider the entire concept so alien. A friend of mine who happens to be an atheist and a software engineer once asked me about fate. In simplest terms I replied that fate is like a program with some default variables which *could be changed* on the basis of certain IF-THEN-ELSE. Just like a program knows the entire scope of his program, the internal entities of the software are not aware of what kind of default values have been set. We are part of a big software made by a perfect engineer,Allah(SWT) who knows the entire scope of the system. Our life’s “Default vars” are usually changed by Prayers(Dua) who triggers certain IF conditions.
p.s: UNI, that was a “technical” response of what you were trying to say
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