Its hard to believe that someone as lively and ambitious could leave this world so silently. I can still feel the warmth of her smile, the shine of eyes and the echo of our laughter that rang through the university corridors very often during the four years that we spent together. We weren’t bosom best buddies, but the time I spent with her during classes is something I cherish.

Both of us usually reached university well before the class timings. And that was when we chatted about almost everything that engulfs the universe.. be it lyrical ballads, or some new prose (we both had literature as subsies) or bashing Musharraf’s policies or a new teacher. I still can feel that  lovely breeze touch my face as we take the usual stroll in the morning sun.

I remember the most fun we had was during rehearsals for a comedy skit. She acted Benazir with such fun and ease (and originality!) that it still makes me smile when I think of it. Some people even thought us as sisters saying that we resembled each other in appearance. We never agreed upon the resemblance part though!

I missed her terribly when I went through the convocation pictures of 2008, time was so good back then. Since yesterday, I had been thinking and thinking about life and ambitions and death and so forth. I remember how we all used to discuss our high end ambitions as if there was nothing more than achieving those aims.

I don’t know whether I should, but I suspect a slight feeling of envy in my heart, thinking that she would be buried today in the holy city of Makkah al-Mukarramah.. and starting a new, eternal life. She wont be among us though. I will really, really miss her. May Allah grant her the highest place in Jannah and may He give her parents strength to endure this great loss.. ameen.