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Auto-generated transcript:I'm back again in my favorite place in Hyderabad, KBR Park.
And as I'm walking, I'm hearing the bulbul calls.
All kinds of names it has, Indian nightingale, also they call it and so on.
I don't know what it is. It's a bulbul.
And whenever I think about these zoological names, and I can't remember one,
I console myself and say, well, I don't know or I can't recall the name of this bird,
but the bird doesn't know either.
I don't mean that entirely facetiously.
Of course, you know, feel free to laugh.
But the reason I'm saying that is because
one of the downsides of knowledge is that it makes you jaded.
I was speaking to a young friend of mine, may Allah bless him,
very, very knowledgeable.
He's a high school kid, but extremely knowledgeable about wildlife, birds.
He has a special interest in, literally passion for,
insects.
I call him Spider-Man.
He loves spiders and scorpions and all kinds of loving beasts like that.
And knows a hell of a lot about them.
And his bird identification is incredible.
Knows all the names.
But yesterday when I was having a conversation with him,
I went over the weekend to Sarpanparli Lake,
which is a very beautiful lake.
I'm saying this for those who are listeners from here,
who know the places on the way to Viharbas.
And we saw a bunch of birds.
So, point herons, cattle egrets, painted storks,
stilts and
What is turns, river turns and so on.
So, as I was telling him these things,
for every one of them, he said,
Oh common, oh common, oh common.
Meaning, these are common species.
It's not a rare one.
Thought that came into my mind was,
that this is the first sign of being jaded.
Where you're looking at, looking for some,
you know, scintillating experience,
some aha moment, every time in life.
Now, the bad news is,
it doesn't exist.
Because most of life is repetition.
Most of life is seeing the same thing again and again.
So, you have two options.
One is, you are constantly seeking this aha experience,
this new thing.
And so, therefore, when you see the same thing again and again,
you're just bored.
You don't want to see it again and again.
But guess what?
That's your fate.
You will see it again and again.
On the other hand, you have another person like me, for example.
I don't care how many times I see the same thing.
I never cease to be amazed.
I never cease to be astonished.
I never cease to marvel at the glory and magnificence
of the creation of my Rab, Jalal Jalal Hu.
I don't care if I see the same thing 50 times,
100 times, 1000 times.
Incidentally, this is also the secret of my life.
The secret of marriage, of a good marriage.
As I have said many times before,
I fall in love with my wife every morning,
and every evening, and every afternoon.
Same wife for the last 40 years.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah.
The thing is, if you find beauty in something,
the beauty is there.
And the more you can look at the same thing and enjoy that beauty,
the happier person you are,
the happier you will be.
Because there are that many opportunities
of enjoying that beauty.
Whereas if you are looking for new things all the time,
you will get them once in a while,
but only once in a while.
The major aha experiences of life,
the major thresholds of life,
are very few.
Getting married,
the day of the ceremony,
the anticipation of it,
and then the ceremony itself,
and so forth,
is one experience in your entire life.
But your wife or your husband,
you are going to be seeing them every single morning,
every single afternoon,
every single evening.
And what happens to a lot of people,
and I have seen this also happening,
is that over time,
they get bored.
They get just used to seeing each other.
They don't take care of their appearance.
If you see them,
if you turn up at their house,
that's why I have,
I make it an absolute rule,
I always take an appointment before I go to some people.
Because I want to share,
save myself the shock
of seeing this person,