A Journey Through Day – Led to Growing Sickness
Preface
Monday 18th, 2022 – 20:00?Gurumandir, Karachi
I was on a bus, already late to work. Stuck in severe traffic, on those monsoon days, I had barely passed some distance from home for like another 28 minutes. Not realize that I got in to wrong bus until I open google maps far from the work, moving in the wrong direction, which led me to the?Shahrah-e-Pakistan?near Karachi – Hyderabad Motorway. Leaving me stressed and worried about the unknown location. I asked people around was hinted to cross that very busy going Shahrah & took another transport?(Qingqi – pronounced Chin-Chee).?That day I travelled about?18.4 kilometers?instead of?10 kilometers,?getting almost?2 Hours?late at work tired & restless, with shoes covered in mud and dusty eyes.
Setup
Tuesday 19th, 2022 – 6:10?Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi
Apparently, it was the last date to collect two of my package from?Daraz.com?delivered at their warehouse located in a nearby area, as we were taking off from work I was frustratingly thinking about what I can do to get those packages naming my options:
At first, I was to go with?option 1?and started searching for a cab and when I couldn’t find one, I started to think about considering?option 2?as I already had a rough day so I just wanted to get done with this one too, and started looking for nearby public places and found?Aziz Bhatti Park?opened at that time minutes from there. In a few minutes, my inDriver arrived and I reached there at about 6:30.
Journey
Morning of July 19th, 2022 – 6:32?Aziz Bhatti Park, Karachi
Entering through the half-open gates of the park, the view of the after-rain greenery in trees and grass looked so aesthetic and pleasing, the walking pathway was also cleaned to its color again. The sky was clear & blue and my sleepless eyes couldn’t stop looking but admiring.
I walked towards the benches I saw over the grass, I sat down there and unstrap the bag from my shoulder relaxing. There were groups of people doing yoga behind me, mostly older age people. Some of them were talking about their business and life while laying on the grass, I was joyed seeing them happening live and well. On the other side, a bunch of teenagers and young boys were playing football on the grass enjoying the pleasant morning, I sat there for about an hour listening to music and the radio, enjoying the view of both sides, contrasting the life cycle.
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Then I took a walk to explore more areas of the park for a while and found a lake at the very end of the park that looked so crystal with the reflection of the surrounded buildings, and the sky getting covered in clouds was an indication of the rain to happen, after taking some pictures of the lake and laid down on the grass to enjoy the view of moving clouds in the sky with a time-lapse while getting some rest laying in peace on the grass.
While resting, the weather got so clouded and was storming, in a short moment the rain started and the grass was getting soaked. So, I had to get under cover in the?shelter-like?place?(in the above images). There were 4 of them in the park, and 3 of them had no benches, which is where I was taking cover. One which has benches in them at the center of the park was occupied by the boys who were playing football.
Heavy rain continued for about an hour, I was standing all until the rain slowed down around 8:12, So, I took a little detour to see around the other shelters and got into one where some bricks were laying around there, I used them to make some sitting space for myself and sat there for about another 40 minutes. There were so many ants and insects bouncing around collecting particles in the rain.
After a period of sitting tiredly on bricks, Looking over to the shelter where boys were playing football, waiting for them to leave. Some seats were available on benches, So, I hopped over to that area and sat there watching the boys play their game on all moist ground, some even barefoot. Now that I have only 1 hour left to wait. I took a good listen to?How To Market & Sell Your Product? Ft. Haseeb Khan?on?Thoughts Behind Things?while glancing at the after-rain situation of the playground in which areas were flooded. The rain hopefully stemmed before 10:00 and the sun was shining in the sky. Now that I can come out and be relaxed again, the park was about to close in meantime.
I am now walking towards my destination Daraz warehouse located within walking distance of 18 minutes from here, on the way I picked up an energy drink to get revived and stay hydrated. Getting to the location I see the shop closed, while the guard there was also waiting for the staff, which took 20 minutes. Gladly I got my packages within a few minutes. As I left, there was a smile on my face feeling proud about the journey that was so tiring and full of challenges. Now I just wanted to get home and sleep, walked to the bus station and set for home?reaching at around 12:00 marking the end of the journey.
Afterwards
Chapter of Sickness and Troubles
Upon getting home and all the troubles and unrestingly days of struggles, I was not able to take rest or sleep and got involved in daily activities, and the big misstep of not eating enough and drinking left my immune system weaker, passing on it again was time for work, making it 24 Hours of no sleep and resting. Going into work believing all will be better. It was a big chance I took and got all vomiting and nauseousness till the half-tine, I urgently had to take off from work earlier and took a leave for another day to get some treatment and recovery. I believe it all grew up from that one bad venture that led to all the wrongs as they say about?Murphy’s Law.