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Eye for an eye

The ERAS post office will open tomorrow. Programmes participating in this year's match will be able to access applications and review them for placing interview calls. My application will be ready by mid September inshaAllah and I will be able to apply for the programmes then inshaAllah. The time scale is very tough and the competition is tougher. But again we are all born to compete in this world and there is no way out of it. I think one should not seek a way out of it either. It is this activity which defines life and is good to keep us going through to the end. The problem however is that there is no boundary between required activity and the activity that makes us psychopaths. But again it is rightly so. We are free to set our own limits. We are free to decide where we should call it a day and go no further. Allah has given us the wisdom to grasp the limits of our body and soul. We are made to make full use of them. All of us try to do that but in the end some succeed and some don't. The important thing is that in the end, no one is to be blamed. There are no guilty parties just a spectrum of effort and wisdom. the essence of all this being that we must not try and over exert ourselves. We have to define limits for our wishes and learn to live within those limits. I think teaching ourselves to obey our limitations in a way is not that bad. We have to learn to appreciate and accept with open heart the limits of our frontiers. This not only promotes healthy thought but also an atmosphere is set where different people with different capabilities can share their good for the collective good of the people and society. Remember it is not always an eye for an eye. Because 'an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind'.

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