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Flying By A Journey Of Life, A Life Of Journey Flying By - IMRAN™
(Supplement) Crossed the Gulf of Maine heading to the main event. Previous segment: fb.watch/dttGle5io7/
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In Part 5 of this story, I wrote about my first flight - as an unaccompanied child ( www.facebook.com/MyIMRAN/posts/431285358999715 ) aged 7. The "Unaccompanied Child" PIA tag from the first flight was lost over the next half century of my journeys of life, but it is etched in my memory. To this day I must have a window seat because I hardly ever sleep on a plane. The only exceptions are if it is an extremely long, especially night time, flight and in particular over a dark sea and under a dark sky.
Otherwise, I I stay awake. I love watching the world go by beneath me since that first flight from Karachi to Lahore. I retain that child-like wonder and amazement at how such a massive thing as a heavy/metal airplane can so smoothly lift off into the air, travel thousands of miles, and gently touchdown again.
My beloved late father’s bold decisions, like having me put on a flight as an unaccompanied child on my first flight, and many other brave actions, especially as parents for their firstborn child, even in a developing country since the late 1960s, had a deep impact. They gave me the even more precious gift than that of flying in an aircraft before anyone in my family. They gave me the confidence, from early childhood, of taking flight in any direction in life, anywhere in the world, destination unknown or known, on my own. That gift from my beloved parents stays with me even today, in my life of journeys. I pray that it will until the end of my journey of life.
In the case of this photo, I am heading towards a destination that will not be a mystery for long. I love that a sunset over a different ocean and continent than my usual ones was visible in the photo behind me. You can clearly see that I have been awake 36 hours at the time of the start of this latest journey. And, for the record, I never smoked, drank alcohol, or tried drugs of any kind. In fact, I abhor all those things. That is a non-alcoholic beverage by my side, in case someone wonders! Rather than consume anything that dulls the senses, I am addicted.... to saying awake, as much as I can,... while I am stayin' alive, stayin' alive..... LOL.
Thank you beloved Abu & Ami for everything, and Almighty Allah for an incredible adventure, a life of journey. It has been a journey of life beyond what I can ever claim to deserve, and far beyond what my words of gratitude can acknowledge.
{To Be Continued}
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Here we have Isabella... at the park on a Sunday afternoon. Higher higher! :) BTW, when taking pictures of your kids on a swing, there is NO safe place to stand. Somehow the Newtonian physics of a swingset always bring a kid barreling into you from well beyond the expected two planes of Cartesian motion.
This is part of a new video tutorial entitled "A World of Textures" that I recently put together. Included is also 100 textures, depending on the package you choose.
I am not yet in first place in my misplaced nomination for "Hottest Daddy Blogger" - I think I am on page 3 behind a blogger named "DrunkenStepFather" who seems to have a lot of links to porn. I was completely disgusted after I spent 7 hours on his site. Surely you guys can vote me ahead of him at this link - bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/1228
Flying By A Journey Of Life, A Life Of Journey Flying By - IMRAN™
(Part 1). Like any little boy, or many a grown man, I had always wanted to be a fighter pilot, since the start. Wanting to fly was in my genes and soul from the day I started the journey of life, through my taking off for new lands and new adventures over the next decades, and even now.
With several uncles in the air force, I always dreamed of joining the Pakistan Air Force before I moved to the USA. When Top Gun, the movie, came out, it instantly became one of my favorite movies, with Danger Zone becoming one of the 10 anthem songs in the soundtrack of my life.
I even wrote a script treatment for Top Gun 2 in the early 1990s and sent it off to some Hollywood executive's wastebasket! And, now an actual sequel, Maverick, is coming out literally the weekend of my upcoming birthday.
This photo was taken nearly 20 years ago, when my dear pilot friend Roger E. and his wife Joyce picked up me and my then beloved Christie from Palm Beach Airport. The girls sat in the rear passenger seats, and Roger let me pilot his beautiful Piper aircraft to Sebring, Florida. As we were on final approach, race cars roared around the track beneath us. I treated us all to lunch, and then we explored the hangars near the famous race track there.
Part 2 www.facebook.com/MyIMRAN/posts/427904326004485
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Today is my 10yr anniversary of getting hurt at work. Which led to a series of spinal injections and then failed back surgery. Leaving me totally disabled with a condition called "Lumbar Sacral Adhesive Arachnoiditis."
The name comes from the webbing process that happens in the spinal cord and blood vessels as they try to cover the injured area with scar tissue which then causes it to all stick and bind together much like a spider web.
Cutting off your nerves and blood flow. The nerve roots become tethered where they exit from the spin. Making a simple cough or sneeze, a "seeing stars" moment.
Some days it's hard to take a breath and others it's okay. 10yrs already, where did the time go??
On the good side. Before I got hurt, I never noticed flowers blooming or the simple colors of a stop light. It led me to pick up photography as more than just taking snapshots though life. Which brought me to Flickr and making a number of good friends to share my life with here.
Many of you keep coming back and viewing my photos so that really makes me feel good. And thanks to everyone who hangs in there with me when I drop off here and there. I appreciate seeing the world through your eyes. I mean it.
My Dad always told me to not be the person who lives life looking back and wishing he had done this or done that. No looking back and feeling sorry you didn't apply yourself to reach the dreams you have..
Because of his simple advice, I learned how to scuba dive, became a private pilot and loved to play some golf here and there. I even was a certified hostage negotiator at one time. Ha.. Who knew??
I Also married the girl of my youth and we have had 35 great years together. God has blessed us with a wonderful family and now grandchildren. To me, life does not get much better than this. Each day is a blessing and I'm going to live it the best I can. No looking back right??
If you have a dream, do it.. Don't look back wishing you had. You might not get another chance.. And if someone gave you some good advice, let them know. I wish I could tell my Dad how much I appreciate his wisdom.
*** Update 2011
If you've found this image from a internet search about Arachnoiditis, here is some info for you about this condition.
With a proper Dx, you can qualify for SSDI in the USA. Arachnoiditis is listed in the SSDI Blue Book.
Flying By A Journey Of Life, A Life Of Journey Flying By - IMRAN™ (Part 4)
(See part 3 at www.facebook.com/MyIMRAN/posts/428751555919762 ). Known as a maverick all my life, even before Tom Cruise's character Maverick in Top Gun made it a more commonly known 'name', I retain that spirit to this day by the grace of the Almighty. I hope to never lose that zest for life. I do that even more as life is flying by faster than even the fastest plane I used to read about as a kid.
That plane was the Bell X-2 Starbuster, which had it first flight exactly ten years before I was born. It reached a maximum speed of ~2100 mph, with a service ceiling of 126,000 feet! Also, in the period of history my existence on earth aligned with, the late American hero aviator and astronaut Senator John Glenn also became the first American to orbit earth. That was literally 3 months before I landed on earth and saw the world with my own eyes for the first time.
But no matter how deep in space an astronaut goes, or by what Mach factor the speed of sound an aviator blows, or how gently a small aircraft a hobby pilot speeds and slows, it all begins with the most fundamental of flying lessons often in he simplest of aircraft. This photo captures the essence of that scientific reality that gives us wings to fly and experience what was once the realm of science fiction. Until one day we all, pilot and non-pilot alike, hop on a one way flight to the heavens.
Many of us will choose, if God wills it as I do, to be buried in solid ground near the feet of my beloved parents' graves. But even then our spirits will soar far beyond the skies. I want to live a life that, when that time comes, my soul is ready to mingle into the brilliant yet invisible universe of dark matter, light heaven, and infinite streams of stardust. I choose to live a life that makes that moment of eternity become a flight faster and farther than the X-2 Starbuster,... the solo flight of Me, Myself, and I.... StarDuster!
{To Be Continued}
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Our stay at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski in the heart of Berlin, Germany in April 2016 as part of our holiday. A beautiful Landmark hotel, highly recommended. The Hotel Adlon Kempinski is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. We enjoyed our Executive room, the location, the ambiance and feel of this magnificent hotel, the fine food/drink offerings and overall mood/service of this hotel which boasts a one of a kind location which forms part of the city’s history, present and future.
Created from this weekend's image and livelife's tutorial.
This was such a neat idea - I just had to try it for myself!
Our stay at the Hotel Adlon Kempinski in the heart of Berlin, Germany in April 2016 as part of our holiday. A beautiful Landmark hotel, highly recommended. The Hotel Adlon Kempinski is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World. We enjoyed our Executive room, the location, the ambiance and feel of this magnificent hotel, the fine food/drink offerings and overall mood/service of this hotel which boasts a one of a kind location which forms part of the city’s history, present and future.
Flying By A Journey Of Life, A Life Of Journey Flying By - IMRAN™ (Part 3)
In part 2 ( www.facebook.com/MyIMRAN/posts/427904326004485 ) I wrote about the need for speed. Even the yellow tail on one of the USAF planes was the same color combination as my Yamaha Enduro from my engineering university days. But there were other connections to both my passions and to my life story.
This was a place where warbirds, general aviation aircraft, and ground speed demons were all on display.
Even though I got rid of my father's beloved but dreadfully unreliable British car the day he had flown to USA for higher studies, the heavy-as-a-brick stainless steel Jaguar hood ornament we took off it is are still kept as a family heirloom in Pakistan.
So it was interesting to see the (I am sure) slightly faster and slightly cooler looking and surely slightly more reliable Jaguar racing cars and aircraft right where I was standing. It was even more coincidental and ironic that the green and white colors of my motherland, Pakistan, adorned the British race car and the tail of another of the planes from my adopted homeland, America.
If only there had been a Yamaha motorbike there at that time, that would have been so cool too. But kidding aside, what a joy to be able to experience all of that, in one moment, in one spot, and even more so, in one amazing lifetime.
What a blessing to experience life and all these interconnected experiences even half a century and half a globe apart. What a gift of God to have lived with more true unconditional love of family and loved ones than even a giant movie star like Tom Cruise and others ever had or could ever have.
Even as I leave the motor of life humming, ready to roar speeding to the next adventure or jumping off the deck into overdrive of adventures, I've been to, and still love thriving in.... The Danger Zone... even when everything is at a standstill.
{To Be Continued}
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Each moment of your life is a picture
which you had never seen before.
And which you'll never see again so enjoy
And live life & make each moment beautiful….~ Mishra
♫♬♩♪ Baby I like it! (Jersey Shore Version)
[Enrique]
Girl please excuse me
If I'm coming too strong
But tonight is the night
We can really let go
My girlfriend is out of town
And I'm all alone
Your boyfriend is on vacation
And he doesn't have to know
No oh oh, oh oh
No one can do the things I'm gonna wanna do to you
No oh oh, oh oh
Shout aloud, screamin loud
Let me hear you go!
[Chorus]
Baby I like it
The way you move on the floor
Baby I like it
Come on and give me some more
Oh yes I like it
Screaming like never before
Baby I like it
I, I, I like it.
[Lionel Richie]
Party, Karamu, Fiesta, Forever