Zainab's Writings

Book: A Day in Your Life 24 hours inside the Human Body Author: Dr. Hilary Jones Length: 399 pages Publisher: CORGI Books Year of Publication: 2014 ISBN:  10: 0552159514 A Day in Your Life, by Dr. Hilary Jones takes you on a trip inside the bodies of the Enniman family: Adam, his wife Eve, their three children, Ben, Poppy, and Ruby, and their pet dog Rufus. This book will “ tell you about all the utterly incredible things your body does all on its own, without you ever being conscious of it. It will explain why you dream and what exactly is it that wakes you up in the morning and fall asleep at night, it tells you why you yawn or laugh, and how you see, hear, and taste. It describes how your breathing and digestion simply happen without you even having to think about it and how your heart, no bigger than the size of your clenched fist, unfailingly goes on beating billions of times during your lifetime without ever getting tired.” (Excerpt from the book) A Day in You

My name is Rani. I was bought up and cared for at a farm in Gujranwala. In the farm, I had no worries, only pressure to produce more milk. The farmer, Fazal-din, was a kind-hearted person and treated all of us with love. My life was full of all sorts of luxuries and comforts a cow could have. I was allowed to stroll all over the farm, to graze in the lush green meadows and to eat as much grass as I wanted to. I could lie in the hot, Punjab sun for simply as long as I wanted to and only at night would the farmer collect all of us and lock us up in the barn. And none of us minded that, let me assure you.  The sight of the heavy padlock, and the sound of Fazal-din’s heavy snores- which echoed in the barn at night- gave us a deep sense of security. Those were the days, let me tell you. It was only in September that I entered the world outside the farm. And I discovered it was a greedy world. A world full of envy, jealousy, and deception.  The people here were hateful and despised eac