Note:
Kaizen:
Meaning – Kaizen is a Japanese concept in business studies which asserts that significant positive results come from the cumulative effect of many, often minor (and even trivial), improvements to all aspects of an operation.
Niyamat:
Primarily found in the Arabic-speaking world, it means “blessings” or “gifts,” and it often carries a connotation of grace and favor.
On the edge, right before a sensible understanding occurs, a feeling before it has a moniker, a tear that swells before grief takes shape, an uncharted span before being or becoming: the flash, the moment is on the run! It vanishes swiftly before meaning emerges, or we etch experience into memory. Moments are lonesome, mostly. The interrogative spear of judgment in loneliness unsettles us. We are fearful of being alone for a moment! Without acute awareness of the instant, we are oblivious to what we lose.
Like a print photograph from a negative, life becomes perceptible when we pause; reverence for a moment builds it. Seizing the fleeting flashes of an hour, “moment before the moment,” celebrating the moment we inhabit, embodies our future selves. When we dwell, however briefly, in the space before meaning hardens into memory, possibility breathes – to do slightly better with however little we possess.
Every heartbeat conspires to convince us that eternity is all we have. We pivot to stubbornness, plot to outsmart mortality, and assume that our term is limitless. When did any of us truly control, in a proper sense, the prophecy of our finale? Debates transpire: Is our knowledge incomplete, or have we never acknowledged, out of arrogance, what we knew all along? Regardless of our opinion, the consequence is obvious—we rarely pay attention to our innate “Niyamat,” things that provide the most significant benefits. Much like an intoxicated person, our lease on life turns incoherent.
Agitated habits we cultivate to serve individuality, to entertain gracelessness and ugliness for their own sake, assassinate civility. A decade of decadence explodes all around us to push each other farther away while grandiose bickering starves our craving for companionship. The emotion of loneliness spreads like wildfire and destroys our capacity to cope with grief, discontent, despair, and the shocks of unpleasant surprises. We don’t realize this and vehemently oppose any guidance! Gradually, we are entirely disconnected from our present moments, the blessings we know, and the fact that we do better together. Well-being fractures, we sink into the quicksand – the more we try to rescue ourselves alone, the more we drown.