The Project Manager's Life 34

Projects can present a wide variety of challenges. Some require little skill to drive and others, because of their scope or complexity, can test the skills of the best project managers. There are managers who thrive on such challenges and always look for the stormy waters of difficult tasks to test themselves. They want anything but the simple projects as a safe havens. This sher from Ali Ahmed Jalili plots the course for them.

Oh Captain! Keep me far from the shores.
Take me there where the storm is about to rise.
Ali Ahmed Jalili

किनारों से मुझे ऐ नाख़ुदा दूर ही रखना

वहाँ लेकर चलो तूफ़ान जहाँ से उठने वाला है

अली अहमद जलीली

کناروں سے مجھے اے ناخدا دورہی رکھنا
وہاں لیکر چلوطوفان جہاں سے اٹھنے والا ہے
علی احمد جلیلی

This is in contrast to a previously posted sher by Moein Nazar, in which a boat is used as a metaphor for fate, and in which the seafarer passively accepts disembarking wherever the boat takes him. See http://nuur-e-faanuus.blogspot.com/2006/05/project-managers-life-27.html#links .

Bon voyage! सफर मुबारक हो! سفر مبارک ہم!