Journal of an Optimistic Contrarian

The name of my blog stems from my worldview which is naturally contrarian. I also think too many people are unnecessarily pessimistic about the world we live in, thus the "optimistic" qualification. On this blog you can expect to find random musings on a wide list of topics and my feeble efforts at poetry. I work in the financial industry, and I can also be dubbed as a contrarian investor. And contrary to popular opinion, I am not a contrarian for the sake of being one (Or at least I hope not).

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Sher

Kyunkar aatish saari jawaani ro rokar gawaayi tune
Jab bhi husn ka hukum bajaya ishq ki thokar khayi tune


Why oh why "aatish" did you spend your entire youth crying away
Whenever you were a slave to Beauty, you were hurt by Love

Friday, January 15, 2010

Husn-e-Bekhabar (Unknowing Beauty)

Nikle the tafreeh-e-gulistaan ko aatish par safar garmi-e-gard-e-sehra nikla
jise husn-e-bekhabar samjha tha dost zaalim husn-e-beparwaah nikla

I went for a stroll in the garden but the journey was through the dry burning desert
I thought Beauty was innocent and unknowing, but mistook cruel indifference as innocence