Day 1 (28th April 2026)
The Limits Of Man
”The only limits you have are the ones that you consider for yourself. However, it is not your fault, these are the limits consigned to you by the mere imagination and fabrication of those around you. Those are the ones who are unable to see the ability in you and underestimate the capacity you hold within yourself. Know your worth for you are born in this world to reach beyond the stars and nullify those fabrications made against you.”
—Hamdan Naseem
Day 2 (29th April 2026)
The Ache of Separation
Isn’t it strange — how we take people’s presence for granted, thinking that they will be by our side forever. However, you wake up one day, realizing that that person is no longer by your side. Suddenly, you catch yourself trapped in the burst of emotions and the regret in your heart, for not spending time with them in the best way possible. We only realize the worth of a moment with a loved one only when they are gone. People don’t stay forever, and that’s life, but a moment with a loved one should be cherished while recognizing the worth of that one moment, and spending it like it’s the last time you are meeting them. Life is just like a train, and you are on board that train. Many people board the same train and travel on it until they reach their destination, and leave you behind like the journey didn’t matter at all, and your company to them was worthless, but that is not the truth. We are all here to go through that journey, and sometimes we have to leave people behind while yearning for our ambitions. I suppose that in the end, life is just an act of letting go, but what hurts the most is not realizing the worth of the time you have with your loved ones and not taking a moment to say goodbye.
—Hamdan Naseem
Day 3 (30th April 2025)
The True Meaning of “Love”
Humans have a tendency to yearn for something that is not meant for them; they seek a love that consumes them, something that lasts forever. Strange, isn’t it? — the absurdity of a mortal craving for eternity. But that is the thing about love, it goes beyond the limits of human understanding and reason; sometimes it even surpasses the capacities of a mortal being, which may aspire them to do something impossible. Some people get so indulged in achieving the ambitions they think will give them bliss and peace that they forget the whole point of life. This truly shows how naïve human beings are; they spend a lifetime trying to build materialistic symbols of success, yet they remain all alone without a companion — a lover who holds them through the harsh barbarities that life consigns to them. The whole point of having a heart and living a life is to love; however, I may warn you, love is cruel. Love is beautiful, poetic, and serene, but what most people don’t know is that it comes along with heartbreaks, chaos, and betrayals. People talk about love, thinking that they know everything about it, and they boast about how much they love someone, but they haven’t experienced it yet. Love is quiet and appreciative, but it also kills you from the inside. You become so fond of one person that your world becomes limited within them which enforces an inability to think beyond them. Suddenly, life gives you a reality check, and you realize how deluded you had been by the atrocities of your obsession with a mere human being. Now you see the bigger picture – the truth that your beloved was never meant to be yours, you see the same love in their eyes for someone else, which you had for them. It breaks you; it changes you completely, and you start thinking that you are all worthless and love is meaningless. But that is the beauty of love, it is impossible, and still we choose to be lost within the wonders it beholds.
—Hamdan Naseem
Day 4 (05th May 2026)
Death
Death, a separation so cruel that it doesn’t consign to us the privilege of saying goodbye to the ones we love. I cannot comprehend why people are so incredibly terrified by the notion of death, as it is inevitable and destined to occur. I suppose we are all merely waiting for death to take over the short span of mortality for which we exceedingly yearn to hold together, even when breaking from inside. Do we merely live just because we are too afraid to die? Because that is what our actions indicate. We live our lives so cowardly as if it is very significant. However, it is not; as death comes upon you, your life wouldn’t have meant anything, and your existence would only remain as a tale untold in the vastness of the history of this world if you don’t achieve something incredible, containing the potential to change the course of this world, which is very unlikely. That is why my friends, I suggest you to live your life to the fullest, such that you don’t have any regrets when it is coming to an end – taking precarious risks because what’s life without a little risk.
—Hamdan Naseem
Day 5 (05th June 2025)
The Absurdity Of Human Connections
One of the most absurd and preposterous aspects of human bonds and connections is that they instantly lose their worth when one party decides to assert their ego and stubbornness on the second party. No matter how valuable a bond two people share, they can go from life-long companions to strangers with mere memories. I suppose we misapprehend the word forever and mistake it for eternity; what really remains with us for eternity are memories of those people who mattered to us more than our own lives and those whom we assumed would stay with us “forever”. Sometimes, human ego and rage can cloud one’s judgement to such an extent that it forces them to make such decisions that supercede their love and compassion for a person they once treasured. Consequently, the person on whom the results of this rage are inflicted, suffers from an emotional breakdown so extreme that it gives them trauma — which is so deep that they lose their faith in human connections themselves — and the confusion of how the person who once loved them so deeply could wound them with detrimental words. That contrast itself is so terrifying, how a person may cause torment upon their partner by the same rhetorical ability they once used to comfort the same person.
—Hamdan Naseem
By Hamdan Naseem (IX-C, KDA Campus, Beacon Light Academy)