"Sold"

"Qatl Gahoun Sey Chuun Ker Hamerey Alam

Aur Niklein Gey Ushaaq Key Qafley

Jin Ki Rahey Talab Mein Hamarey Qadam

Mukhtasir Ker Chaley Dard Key Fasley

Ker Chaley Jin Ki Khatir Jahan Geer Hum

Jaan Ganwa Key Teri Dilbari Ka Bharam

Hum Jo Tareek Rahon Mein Marey Gayey"

Hi everyone,

We are in the process of downsizing and have put our house on the market. Everyone who comes to see our house finds a different reason not to make us an offer. Our realtor says it's a buyer's market these days. I thought it always was!

Although selling is one of the hardest things to do, we will sell as long as there are buyers! We sell whatever we have and whatever we can! We sell our art, we sell our craft, we sell our dreams, we sell our hearts, we sell our minds and we sure do sell our souls as it's the easiest thing to sell. The going rate for one's soul has been astonishingly low all through my life. 

Human relationships are potentially the biggest equity market for sellers and buyers as well as the nexus for exploitation. They say, and I always believed in this notion, that we compromise to keep relationships. Now I have evolved enough to know better and  have become bold enough to say that more than we compromise we sell ourselves to stay in one. We don't offer our services, we render! There's less of a give and take and more of a buying and selling. The very reason relationships stop working when buying/selling deals falls through. 

Relationships can be brutal! They can take away your freedom to give you a name. They can easily take away your pride to give you a roof on your head. You sell your freedom, you sell your pride, and at times, even your integrity to stay in one and find out that it can be quite inhumane to sustain a human relationship.  

I got up the other day and started to look for commodities in my ordinary life that I could sell in my ordinary world after I successfully sold a pair of shoes on eBay. To my surprise I had plenty to render. I had a pair of sympathetic ears, a pair of compassionate shoulders, a heartwarming smile, unmatched charm, incomparable patience, a few tears here and there, a tender heart, a not so pure soul, and last but not least, my freedom!

Although, we are always on a lookout to get the best deal in anything we need to buy, quite often we sell ourselves short!

Much love,

Shehla