By Abubakar Jamil
Probably the best thing I like about life is its amazing ability to surprise us. One moment can change the course of your life forever. Just one moment! And you never know when that moment is going to strike you, and bring with it a cascade of events that you never even imagined before.
It can a be a person you meet by chance, a book you read on the airplane, a fight you have with someone, an event you witness on the sidewalk, a song you hear on the radio, an ad you read in the newspaper—anything!
When you are down and depressed and days feel like a burden to live, you tend to think that that is all there is to life. When you are on the ninth cloud and everything seems bright and promising, you feel that it is going to last forever. But nothing lasts forever. The moment comes... More...