Wo kehty hain mard ko janam dena ummed hai or aurat ko janam dena mayoosi. Jab ke har mard ka khwab aurat hai or har aurat ki mayoosi mard hai.
They say that giving birth to a man is hope and giving birth to a woman is disappointment. Although, every man's dream is a woman and every woman's disappointment is a man.
American philosopher Ralph Emerson once asked a heart-wrenching question:
"How much of human life is lost in waiting?"
And the stalwarts of Urdu poetry Jaun Elia, Parveen Shakir and Faiz Ahmed Faiz expressed the agonizing feeling of waiting for someone who is never coming back through their poetry:
Jaun Elia wrote:
Woh jo na aane waala hai na us se mujh ko matlab tha aane waalo se kya matlab aate hai aate honge.
Parveen Shakir Wrote:
Woh na aayega hame malum tha is sham bhi Intezaar uska magar kuch soch kar karte rahe.
And Faiz Ahmed Faiz wrote:
Na jaane kis liye ummeedwaar baitha hu Ek aisi raah per jo teri rahguzar bhi nahi.
And I felt like being stuck in time where every moment feels long filled with some hope and the worry that the person I'm waiting for may never return.