The Optimist

"Dedicated to my mother, Ismat Bano and father, Abdul Majeed for teaching me optimism."

Tough economic times, wars, famine, tsunamis, global melt down, moral and ethical dehiscence.

So is the glass half full or half empty?

Enough going on to sap the energies, to drain the enthusiasm. Enough going on to cloud common sense.

But wait.

It refuses to be a pessimist. It believes in the human will, the human resilience, the human rebound.

It believes in the human race to stand up and deliver.

Every human being to be counted and ask, how can it better another life, how can it make proud mother earth, how can it first do no harm?

It is the good Samaritan, it is the human spirit, it is a dreaming child.

The question is, can it become I, we, us, yet again.

Arif Ahmad, MD