A student’s views who left Lahore

𝙂𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙇𝙖𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨/𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚…😢😢😢💔💔💔
It’s not a city you want to forget after living in it once…….IT CALLS YOU BACK….! Through its memories…!

I miss 𝙈𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙤𝙖𝙙 (the only road more beautiful than the roads of Paris)… I miss 𝙂𝘾𝙐 (my dargaah “Hogwarts” ) … I miss 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙖𝙡𝙞..(the best bazaar on planet Earth) I miss that liveliness everywhere around Lahore, 24/7…(Lahoriyye)
I miss the ancientness and uniqueness of Lahore….

I hear a lot about the specialities about cities. They’re pure…or.. clean….or….. advanced….or…. planned….or…. Well managed…. !
Well they may be unique… But are they ancient??? Or if not even that… Does it appeal to you to photograph them all the time?? Do their roads and streets whisper 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 into your ears??? Do they have those narrow streets holding evidences of the evolution of life in them???
Do even the bad things about them make you love them even more??? ( for example what new revelation of scenery an already clean and pure environment would provide after rain??? That’s why I love the dustiness of Lahore…. It turns the whole city into a masterpiece of art after Rain….) 🌌

Do they have the sweet fragrance like that of an adorable lady? 🍃🥀
Do they have that lovely 𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙨 sitting on their buildings like the one sitting at 𝘐𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘣𝘶𝘭 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘬??🕊️
Do they have the eye-catching views of the artwork on PU’s wall? Do they have the incredibly crowded food streets like that of 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐢??
Do they possess the mesmerising splendidness of the 𝘽𝙖𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙞 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙦𝙪𝙚… ❤️
Do they have those 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙨 ( and not the ones throwing surfy water on your vehicle’s windshield) who say nothing while sitting on the pavement with a bowl for coins, but their smile makes your day …? 💜✨

Do they have such caring bike riders pushing your bike for kilometres with one foot , if you run out of petrol, while they could have just minded their own business???

Do they even possess the great 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 with all its charms and stories written on the old infrastructure???

Do they have those committed sweepers waking up every morning, greeting each passer-by and facilitating photographers by making the morning sunshine turn orange by providing a filter of their dust cloud just across the corner of every road in the city??? 🌅

Do they have the real “𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒚𝒆” made anywhere in them??? Which you can find in every little pathway in Lahore (the tea stalls looking not sufficiently hygienic but offering the real taste of “𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒚𝒆” atleast…..) ☕

Can you bargain in almost every shopping item there like you can in Lahore??? (funny but true) 😊

Do they still promote 𝘽𝙊𝙊𝙆 𝘾𝙐𝙇𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀 through book stalls on footpaths with owners (themselves readers and admirers of writings) more co-operative in finding a respective book than some suited guy (knowing almost nothing about books) in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙪𝙧𝙪𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥. 📖

Do they have the finger licking taste of the گوگا نقیبیہ ناشتہ ???

Do they possess people who still read a newspaper a day while travelling in a local bus, who still wear a unique hat, who still dress up like the eighties and nineties and feel pride in it walking down the road?? ✨🏚️

Do they still have a plenty of those old “𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 𝙎𝙠𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨” with uncles going to work on them??? 💙

Do they have tens of 𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 per street in the fiery afternoons of summer??? 💛

Do they have those typical 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘴 with old melodies playing on the music systems in them???🎶

Are they the hubs for art and culture like Lahore??? 🎭🖌️🎨

Ahhh this list won’t end ever…. 😅

P.S. 𝑰 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝑳𝒂𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒆…. 𝒀𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆…. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏…. 💜💜💜

Post by: Faheem Iqbal