Monday, December 19, 2011

DANCE IT OUT

We live with strong walls around us. Walls of responsibilities, etiquette s, discipline that make us conscious of our every step, our every action. We are bound to live in a particular way to be a part of our social circle and all our life we try living by those rules. Many of us know that secretly we want to and we do practice the other way of living (our way of living) while some have accepted every said and written word and given up the struggle of keeping that secret identity intact.

This difference in attitude shows up while dancing. Those who are forced into the rigid social traditions, with no second thought get onto their toes than those who be religious to the tradition. We are trained to follow our minds and so the walls seem to restrict our steps while dancing but as we proceed we start listening to our hearts and puncturing the walls. Those who started with the shy gesture minding their steps and apologizing pushes, now grow congenial and widen the smile and those who were forced into the dance give up the rigidness and have an ice breaking session with their own soul.

When the wall goes down completely, we enter a different world where body is just a means through which senses flow, energies flow. The smile grows into laughter, apologies turn into friendly encounters and we are guided by some unknown force. We attain a state of pure happiness. Happiness that is not through any reason, any material means but just by feeling the aliveness within by feeling the life flowing through every cell in the body. All worries, all rules-everything vanishes and we be there with the long lost inner self.

Dance is a kind of meditation that concentrates our universe at one point and with exhaustion rejuvenates us for life's upcoming events.

Monday, December 12, 2011

not HAPPINESS but JOY

Everything at once seems so simple and so complicated.

It's simple because all it takes is a change of attitude : I'm not going to look for happiness anymore. From now on, I'm independent, I see life through my eyes and not through other people's. I'm going in search of the adventure of being alive.

And its complicated : Why am I not looking for happiness when I am taught that happiness is the only goal worth pursuing? Why am I going to risk taking a path that no one else is taking?

After all, what is happiness?

Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and has never brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield, it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Then Peace, may be. If we look at the Mother Nature, she's never at peace. The winter does battle with the summer, the sun and the moon never meet, the tiger chases the man, who's afraid of the dog, who chases the cat, who chases the mouse, who frightens the man.

Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop work. But then they're more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that's true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money won't necessarily bring happiness.

All that I look for in life, is not happiness but joy. Joy of being in a place at that particular moment, joy of involving in an activity at that particular moment, joy of being with a person at that particular moment; because life is meant to be alive in every moment than living every moment to make a single one look alive

The above article is an extract from the book "The Witch of Portobello" with the concluding paragraph from my desk.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

WOMAN

Keep an eye on all my notions,
Catch a whiff of all my emotions

Treat me as a mother when I be a savior,
Make me your child, don't mind my behavior

Hold me tight when I need you the most,
Edge me to the world when I miss me the most

Be the frame when I lose my ends,
Check me out in all my latest trends

Keep a smile when you find me near,
Hold a tear if losing me is your fear

Glitter in your eyes, when I conquer the world,
Me in your eyes, that makes my world

I am a woman, I dance to my heart
Be my man, play me my Mozart.

Friday, October 28, 2011

The Bloody Employer

a little extra wage is your right
if every evening you blow off the lights

but are given when you reach in next day
to see the morning ray

public holidays are your rights
but
you consider yourself public..that is heights...!!

don't wait for the up-raisal
if in their eyes, you don't dazzle

want to hold onto your job?
its your life, you let them rob

to keep check on time, why need a gong
when you got a boss, to be the watch dog

and after all, get insulted in foyer
that's his right, the bloody employer..!!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

WAIT FOR IT....!!

We have all been through various stages, are going through many at present and will continue going through many more.

Who would not love to drive through six lane roads where speeds are not restricted? Some of us love the hilly roads, snake bends and bumpy rides though we hate traffic as it does irritate us but never scares us of the journey. Tunnels – they too are loved by many. A sudden darkness for few minutes and then flash of daylight in the end. But life sometimes makes us enter tunnels where the end is not seen and even the headlights are not trustworthy. This is the ride, every one of us dreads.

The voids of life, we can call them so, when the journey is totally uncertain putting us on the crater of a dormant volcano which can erupt the next moment or just let the surface flourish keeping cool forever. Meditating on such a crater would be the toughest task and shivering, tethering and hallucinating is absolutely humane.

Being in such a void, switches on the super sensitive mood in us where any statement, any song, any story or any exactly similar or completely opposite instance will leave long-lasting impression on our minds. It will inject the virus that would rupture our self-confidence. The weak ones fall in the trap soon but the rest of us cling onto the little hopes and helps. No doubt, our this state has served bread and butter to the writers of self-help books, have earned fortunes to happy-go-lucky-movie makers and musicians. It has opened spas, hobby clubs, sports arena and pubs and discotheques in every possible corner where humanity exists with its so many complexities.

But will all these things serve as chicken soups for all those struggling and blindfoldedly fighting souls? I fear not because when you are fighting a mortared brick wall, all you concentrate on is the rigidness of the wall, the paining hands, sore wounds and not on the slowly weakening foundation of the wall. Newton when said “every action has equal and opposite reaction to it”, he didn’t restrict it just to science.

So should we keep banging our heads against such walls, crying on every failure and still holding on to diminishing hopes? This question fuels all the rage and aggravates all the negative emotion inside. It grows so big that we can promise life long slavery to someone who answers the question for us. The one who answers it for us is the one who answers every intricate question in world – TIME.

TIME - if personified, is like that honest policeman who cannot be bribed to be manipulated according to our needs. It is like that punctual employee of any company who would not step in before time and steps out dot at time. It is like that dog owner, who would have all the fun watching his dog go round and round chasing its tail but will give the bone only when he feels the time is right.

Solutions to many problems in life and answer to many questions in life is often TIME and all we should do is wait for it and let it pass at the same time, keeping the destination in the back of our mind while exploring all the paths life unfolds to us.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

गरज

गरज गरज की बात है भैया
गरज के आगे क्या रुपैया |

जो अनाज खाने की चाह ना होती
सर्द से ठिठुरती रात ना होती |
तो अबभी आग से कोसो दुर हि होते
कच्चे मास पे जीते बंदर होत |
गरज गरज की बात है भैया
गरज के आगे क्या रुपैया |

भटक-भटक कर सर चकराया
तभी हमने गांव बसाया |
गांव-गांव मे अंतर बढता जाता
पहिया, गाडी, जहाज़-एक के बाद एक सब आता जाता |
गरज गरज की बात है भैया
गरज के आगे क्या रुपैया |

एक हाथ दे, एक हाथ ले
दुनिया का पहेला नीयम है ये |
हर गुथ्थी यहीं से उल्ज़े-सुल्ज़े
रीश्ते-नाते सब इसी से बनते |
गरज गरज की बात है भैया
गरज के आगे क्या रुपैया |

सही-गलत सब इसकी सुज़ाई
पाप-पुन्य भी इसीकी रचाई |
इसके चलते, गधे को बाप बनाया
इसने चाहा उसे सर के बल चलाया |
गरज गरज की बात है भैया
गरज के आगे क्या रुपैया |

गरज है जिसके सर पे भैया
वही नाचे है ता-ता-थैया |
गरज की जिसको गरज नहि है
गरज है उसके जेब मे भैया |

गरज गरज की बात है भैया
गरज के आगे क्या रुपैया |

Saturday, September 17, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-17

When the doer and the ritual remains constant - it is called routine

When the ritual remains the same but the doer changes - it is called tradition

When the doer remains the same but rituals change - it is called LIFE...

Friday, September 16, 2011

बारिश

आसमान को और गहेरा बनाती है,
पेड-पोधों को और हरा बनाती है,
सुखी बेज़बान धरती मे जान डाल देती है,
जबही बारिश मेरे आंगन आती है

कमरे के खिडकी पे घोंसला जो देखा था,
घंटो चिडिया का इंतज्ञार भी किया था,
अब सारा दिन पर सुखाती नज्ञरबंद रहेती है,
जबही बारिश मेरे आंगन आती है

हर दिन चुल्हे से आंख चुराती थी,
गरम-तीखा नमकीन एक आंख ना भाती थी,
अब मन करारे पकोडे और चाय की चुस्की में अटकाती है,
जबही बारिश मेरे आंगन आती है

दिमाग पे जेसे ताला लगा था,
विचारो को जेसे तपते सुरज ने जकडा था,
अब विचारो के साथ कलम से स्याही भी बहेती है,
जबही बारिश मेरे आंगन आती है

वो आंसू जो तकिये मे सुख चुके थे,
वो हंसी जो आंचल मे बांध रखी थी,
बुंदो के छुते ही, यांदो को जीवीत कर जाती है,
जबही बारिश मेरे आंगन आती है

यों तो यह साल के मध्य मास मे आती है,
पर हर शुरूआत को अंत और अंत को शुरूआत दे जाती है,
जबही बारिश मेरे आंगन आती है

Monday, September 12, 2011

ज़िन्द्गी - २

तुम उलझाओ, तो उलझती है

तुम सुलझाओ, तो सुलझती है

तुम मुस्कुराओ, तो वो हसती है

तुम उदास हो, तो वो रोती है

होसला दो, तो वो सवरती है

घबरा जाओ, तो वो सहेम जाती है

डर से,अंधकार ले आती है

और प्यार से, गुद्गुदा जाती है

ना दो कदम आगे, ना दो कदम पीछे

ज़िन्द्गी बस साथ-साथ ही चलती है

Thursday, September 8, 2011

“LOVE IS TO BE LIVED IN EVERY MOMENT OF TOGETHERNESS”

Love has been described everywhere lavishly, beautifully as the most amazing feeling that puts you on the ninth cloud. But what before that and what after that???
People don’t fall in love simultaneously or maybe they do but don’t realize it at the same time. Then what is the feeling before the realization called?? How do you describe that period of time?? – Pathetic, vulnerable, stupid!! It turns you into the world’s dumbest human. It is like that small tiny ant which when enters an elephant’s ear, makes that enormous, usually calm and probably the most sensible of the animals, dance on one foot.
It makes you blind, true; not to the surroundings but to yourself. You close your eyes to your insanity.
It makes you an alarm clock keeping record of your lover’s each and every movement; time to get up, time to cross your street, time to come to that window, time to sneak into their bed.
It makes you a time bomb with your eyes checking your phone, your mailbox and your door every next while, waiting for that knock and blasts when it doesn’t.
It makes an investigation agent out of you; analyzing every word that comes out of your lover’s throat and every expression he throws at you. You not only investigate it yourself but also deliver the job to your fellow investigators-your friends who judge it with their own experiences.
And if this isn’t enough to prove you insane, you develop crazy mood swings reaching highs and lows at any hour of the day till you reach the conclusions.
And I bet, Google too has no remedy to this painful journey!!

But there are totally different types of lovers. The fortunate ones are those who get a partner to accompany in the fall and the unfortunates are those who fall all alone, but the pre-love story still remains the same for everyone. The early you confess your love the more you free yourself from the yes-no trap but no one wants to get hurt and be portrayed as a miserable soul on a failure and this is what makes the journey rough and crazy.
And it never ends with the proposal being accepted, it just changes the course. Every pain and suffering from the pre-love stage is put to a different test here on. It refines those feelings and redefines your love.

Love like humans has pre-birth and post-birth stage. It too grows like us but unlike us it doesn’t have a physical form. A baby grows in its mother’s womb whereas love holds its roots in the partners’ hearts.
- The baby in a pre-birth stage is not seen or heard, it is just felt growing in the womb and hearts of the parents. Love too in pre-recognization stage is just felt. You would never have reasons supporting your feelings for someone; it just shows up as symptoms of someone’s presence in your life making you happier from within.
- Baby being not in picture in pre-birth stage, the partners are still just for each other. They together work out ways to nurture the baby when it comes in their lives. Lovers too before admitting their feelings for each other are more concerned for their partner than about sustaining the love and their image as a couple together.
- When the water breaks - is the stage when the feeling can no longer be suppressed and has to reach the receiver. Both the partners are agitated with the growth of it within them and know they have to make it reach the other end. Every sane-insane, verbal-gestural, logical-illogical way is tried and every prolonging moment just adds to the pain of being un-understood.
- And when the baby comes, it sparkles in the eyes of the partners. The happiness here means a lot more than winning a lottery, a jackpot, a race or a million dollar cash and remains the same till you celebrate your every “first time” events together.
- Here the story turns to the post-love stage. Now when you stare at your partner’s face, it’s not to adore the smile but to analyze the smile. Now when you make a special dinner for him; it’s not to show your love but to demand those beautiful earrings you were eyeing since long. Now when you bring her flowers, it’s not to make her happy but to make yourself little less guilty for being late for the date. Now when you hold hands, it’s not to show the world that you are couple but to try to show the world that you are couple. Earlier even the silences were heard whereas now the loudest of words also fail being heard. We forget that the human baby grows to have its own identity but love stands meaningless alone.
- “Re-birth” exists here too. At a very later stage, in old age; if the partners manage to sustain their superficial love, it gets chance of re-birth. It sparkles once again before it turns into the eternal darkness of death.


“IF WE BELIEVE THAT LIFE IS TO BE LOVED THAN WE SHOULD EVEN REALIZE THAT LOVE IS TO BE LIVED IN EVERY MOMENT OF TOGETHERNESS”

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

Friday, August 12, 2011

RUN YOUR RACE

Till college, the life is predefined. Pre-school, school and then college. It’s a foundation for the life ahead. After college, when the world around us seems to change, the people who are exactly like us and with us all the time, change.

When I saw the world around me change, I didn’t want to know whether it’s the right way or not, I just wanted to imitate the world as I was preparing for it for so long. So, I close my eyes and get into the rut. I knew, it’s a rat race for life, but if all other rats can happily go with it, so can I.

For a while the journey seemed smooth and enjoyable with interactions with fellow travelers until we reached a speed breaker. Everyone had a jerk but moved on with the race. I too had a jerk and was disturbed by it. But if the world can move on, so can I.

I continued the journey ahead, but this time couldn’t close my eyes. I was surprised with how others were able to move on and disappointed with myself but decided to pretend to be the same. And so the journey furthered, interactions decreased and monotony increased.

After a long while we reached a huge puddle. Everyone else jumped easily with no second thought whereas I got stuck with my eyes open. I knew I had to move on, go ahead, jump into it and cross it or else I’ll be lonely on this side of the puddle.So this time I closed my eyes and attempted the jump but my mind and heart didn’t shut. Being there was painful, I cried and begged to god to help me cross the puddle but nothing helped. I sat there and saw the other slot of travelers crossing the puddle and continuing the journey. I can’t give up, I thought. So I kept on trying but every time I tried harder, I failed. I was getting weakened from within.

Finally I gave up and stopped trying. As I emptied my tear tank and made peace with the situation, darkness started disappearing. Earlier all I saw was the puddle trouble, the successful travelers surpassing it and the road ahead, now I was opening my eyes to the trees around, the river gushing by and the birds chirping. My loneliness was turning into aloneness. I started enjoying being all by myself in that lovely surrounding.
Since then being alone, I started interacting with myself, defined myself, my passions, my principles and my dreams. And then from nowhere I saw a trail, dusty, uneven and broken unlike the road my fellow travelers were on. But it looked very less trodden; I sat by its side and pondered for a while. Before I start my journey I need to face few thoughts wandering in my mind.
Success might be slow, world will put me to compare with my fellowmen, luxuries might be few, struggle might be prolonged and the journey might be lonesome. Do I still want to move on?
To it, I answer after a while –

- Success will be when I succeed to my journey ahead, step by step and not when I defeat my neighbor.
- Comparison will exist even when I run the rat race, I just need to put it off my mind.
- Luxuries are important but for the mind, body or soul is what I get to decide.
- Struggle will put me down at times but keep me alive to strive for betterment.
- It’s no use being in crowd if my conscience disappears. I better be content and alone.
I dusted myself and got onto the trail as I knew now that it might take me in different direction but it’s exactly what I want. Since then I am on my trail exploring it my way.

LIFE GIVES EVERYONE SIMILAR RUNWAYS TO TAKE OFF FOR THE JOURNEY BUT THE SKY IS BROAD AND YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRAILS TO REACH YOUR PERSONAL DESTINY.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Fall

What do we do when something goes against our wish??

Some of us cry, some of us fight, some crib, some regret and some just sadly let it go.

Remember when we were learning to ride bike. The first fall never disappoints us because we knew, we are to fall; we are learning. The pain of failure ascends with every fall till the time when we start assuming may be we are doomed to fall and then the falls stop bothering. We stop concentrating at the weaknesses which make us fall every time as we accepted it as inevitable. We know we are going to fall whether we take precautions or not because we digested the thought of being destined to fall.

We just get on the bike and carry on and to our surprise we carry on without the falls.

The very basic lesson that life teaches us in the very beginning of our journey is never underlined and hence we keep on crying, nagging, cribbing and begging for various falls we face in life, when there is this simple rule of nature -

THE RAIN THAT COLLECTS UP THERE IN THE CLOUDS,
RUNS OFF THE ROOF, FLOODS THE GROUNDS,
AND HITS THE DRAINS
JUST TO RISE BACK UP TO MAKE THE RAINS...

Thursday, July 28, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-14

SOCIAL HUMAN - WHO CONNECTS TO THE WORLD
SPIRITUAL HUMAN - WHO CONNECTS TO HIS OWN MIND, BODY AND SOUL

LIFE IS HAPPY IF YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE AROUND BUT LIFE IS WORTH IF YOU KNOW THE PERSON WITHIN

KNOW YOURSELF

"BEING COWARD IS NOT A CRIME BUT NOT KNOWING IT, DEFINITELY IS."

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

AM I WRONG? AM I RIGHT? WHO IS WORLD TO DECIDE?

ONE CUP SUGAR TO TWO CUPS FLOUR
FOLLOW THE SEQUENCE TO BAKE IT GOOD
I WANT IT SWEET, I WANT IT PLAIN
CAN'T I FIX IT TO FIT MY MOOD?

YEAR AFTER YEAR, RULES HAVE BEEN SET
DAY IS TO WORK AND NIGHT IS TO REST
JUMP IN THE RUT AND JET SET GO
WHY CAN'T I CHANGE TO QUENCH MY QUEST?

WHEN WORLD PLAYS THE MUSIC
EVERY NOTE IS TO GROOVE
WHICH ONE IS WISE AND WHICH ONE IS NAIVE
IS IT NECESSARY TO PROVE?

LIFE TURNS INTO A PUPPETEER
LINING RULES TO ABIDE
AM I WRONG? AM I RIGHT?
WHO IS WORLD TO DECIDE?

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-13

Money, power, love, happiness, victory and failure are not always in our hands but the conscience to deal with all is always in our hands...

Monday, June 13, 2011

FEAR

When you fear getting drenched,
You miss getting wet...

When you fear the heat,
You turn away from warmth...

When you fear the fall,
You stop moving ahead...

When you fear falling in love,
You stop being amicable...

Grab the fear,
Face it, dear
It does all wrong inside,
but holds all right beside...

Open your arms to it,
if that makes you coward, be it
But the next time it comes
you get to see how courage sums...

Thursday, May 26, 2011

DEFINING LOVE...

We all are in search of "the one". We search for them all the time, at all the places we expect them from and at all the doors we expect the knock from....

Some of us or may be all of us make a checklist, either matching or opposing our own personality and every time we hit the wrong one, we alter the list. But all that while when we concentrate on the list, matching every single point to reach "the one", we miss on the little details that eyes and mind never notice.....

Its the heart that defines "the one" but can never explain the correct reason. Its just that the good, the best, the bad and the worst fall in place, every thing makes a meaning. Its when the smile on your face, the little memories and the little gestures become irresistible....

This irresistance needs realization and when its realized, it needs recognizaion....

The feeling while the journey is the war you hold in yourself that churns every emotion in one color called....

LOVE...

Saturday, May 14, 2011

BrainStorm on CREATIVITY

- who all are creative?
- and why can't they be creative all the time?
- creativity never has manufacturing or expiry date
- it can never be created or destroyed
- that means if a person is creative, its there in him always
- then why doesn't it shine always?
- may be the mind needs perfectly healthy environment to think
- "healthy environment" as in a place where everything is at peace, we know the sequence of
events happening, no hustle bustle

“Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To
others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from
your very soul an idea.” ~Lou Dorfsman

- but that would mean a straight line life
- but creativity comes out of everyday life events the ups and downs
- life with pots and holes, bumps, niches and loops are places where creativity hides

"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who
initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable."
~William Pollard

- then its not the environment that affects creativity, may be the mood
- but mood is the byproduct of everyday events. So with the events, the mood swings

"I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity."
~Gilda Radner

- may be the attitude towards the mood should be correct
- but attitude is not a variable quantity, so if at a point an attitude makes me creative it
can't be responsible for me not being creative
- if creativity like energy is never created or destroyed then may be its transfered
- so when we think we are not being creative, we might be pouring it out somewhere else

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
~William Plomer

- all those alternative activities where we pour out the creativity are visible and so we would
know that we are still active
- so those are kinetic form of creativity
- what when we are almost inactive or hibernating?
- there might be potential form, a store house of it
- the "thoughts"

"True creativity often starts where language ends."
~Arthur Koestler

- so the mind remains active all the time, keeping the flow of creativity intact with factors affecting it unknowingly, changing directions unwantedly but always existing in some form or other inevitably

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
~Donatella Versace

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

KING AND THE CASTLE

We are the kings of our lives. From the day we open our eyes we start building the castle of our dreams and desires. The life we live has diverted from what we aimed at living, years back. We live on burnt bricks keeping the red and fresh ones for the castle.

When the castle is complete with no scope of any more bricks, we start finding those red fresh bricks worthless and the virtual happiness dies.

There the journey takes a turn. The castle built has lost its location. We search for it everywhere, in people with whom we shared the journey, the places we halted for a span of life and the moments that mortared the castle. And just when we are losing the grip on the road, we find the castle with every brick intact exactly where we built it i.e. within us.

And we finally realize that, now that its built, lost and found, its time to live it, climb it up and get the victory flag fly high on the spire of the castle.

Monday, May 9, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-10

I can't promise to follow the footsteps of any of the legends, idols or gurus..
But I'll promise to be a better 'ME' tomorrow...

Thursday, May 5, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-9

Legs never pain while strolling through the plains,
They pain when you take the upward journey ......

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-8

thoughts are untamed horses....sometimes 10 comes n sometimes none ;)

Sunday, May 1, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-7

Its been said "all is well that ends well"
BUT
that doesn't smoothen the hardships while the journey
so the new age mantra to skate over the icy rocks of journey goes this way :

"LAUGH YOUR LUNGS OUT FOR EVERY TICKLING EXPERIENCE AND CRY YOUR EYES OUT FOR EVERY PIN PINCHED IN YOUR HEART...
LIVE THE JOURNEY WELL TO RELISH THE END WELL"

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

WHAT I AM IS ME

I AM NOT A DOCTOR BY BIRTH,
I USED TO KILL ANTS IN SCHOOL

I AM NOT A WRITER BY BIRTH,
I USED TO SCORE LOW IN GRAMMAR

I AM NOT A DANCER BY BIRTH
I CRAWLED FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD

I AM NOT A LEADER BY BIRTH
I USED TO GET BULLIED IN SCHOOL

WHAT I WEAR IS MY NAME,
WHAT I OWN IS MY FAME,
BUT WHAT I AM IS ME

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-6

Life brings learnings to everyone,
but only those get who accept it...

Monday, April 25, 2011

Friday, April 22, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-4

I definitely don't have answers to all my questions,
but I have patience to allow life to answer them...

Sunday, April 17, 2011

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-3

goodness is a form of energy, never created or destroyed...only transfered....just give goodness n receive it....
if not from where you expected, just turn around n find it elsewhere ;)

THOUGHT OF THE DAY-2

Let your heart be the ruler and your mind be the guide
You just take the back seat and enjoy the ride . . . .

Friday, April 15, 2011

Thursday, April 14, 2011

We receive texts from friends, acquaintance, crushes, lovers and heart breakers. We store them for memories but after a long while find them meaningless and shift delete without a second thought.....
Thats how life is. Be it good or bad every small story does matter for a while but then they have to move out making space for new stories.....

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

LEARNINGS

- life is about learnings
- learning comes with consciousness and openness towards life
- and is understood with maturity
- maturity is directly proportional to experience
- age is just the catalyst in this reaction
- every stage in life is meant to cultivate a higher human
- the process is smooth if you keep your senses open to the ever changing life
- to err is human, but when you try to escape the learning it turns into your shadow
- the more these shadows grow, the more you get into the darkness of ignorance
- just loosen yourself, making mistakes is healthy if you improve on it
- the outer self is a social prisoner
- just dive into your depths, release the inner self which knows no rules, no boundaries, which is matured and innocent but fearless to the social obligations

IF LIFE IS ABOUT ACHIEVING YOUR PERSONAL LEGEND, KNOWING IT IS A JOURNEY WELL TREAD WITH THE PUREST OF ONESELF AND THIS PURITY COMES WITH OPEN ARMS TO LIFE

Friday, March 25, 2011

COURAGE

WHEN YOU SEE THE WORLD AT WAR,
FIND THE PEACE WITHIN

WHEN YOU GET CONFUSED WITH THE WAY WORLD WORKS,
DIS-ENTANGLE THE TIES WITHIN

WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF AT THE ROOTS OF FATE
JUST LET THE BUD OF HOPE BLOSSOM WITHIN

WHEN YOUR OUTER WORLD SHATTERS,
BUILD A CASTLE WITHIN

WHEN THE WORLD IS AT ITS WORST,
HOLD ON TO THE BEST IN YOU

LIFE WILL TAKE YOU TO THOUSAND WRONG WAYS,
TREAD THROUGH THEM WITH ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS IN YOU

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

TEMPTATIONS . . .

YOU CAN NEVER RESIST IT
WHEN COMES TO YOU, WASHES ALL OTHER THOUGHTS AWAY
TO HELL WITH PROS & CONS, PROFIT & LOSS WHEN ITS ON YOUR MIND
GRAB IT AND THE WORLD IS YOURS FOR THE MOMENT
LOSING IT MEANS SAVING IT IN YOUR DUSTED MEMORY DATA BASE TILL THE TIME YOU GET IT
YOU'LL BE SHOWERED WITH IT IF YOUR FRIENDS KNOW IT
YOU'LL BE TRICKED WITH IT IF YOUR ENEMIES KNOW IT
BODY SHOWS MORE MILEAGE TO REACH IT
AND GAINS DOUBLE AFTER GETTING IT
SUPPRESS IT AND YOU'LL BE A SAGE SITTING ON THE EVER RISING ROCK OF IT
FULFILL IT AND YOU'LL BE A COMMONER SAILING SMOOTH THROUGH THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS....

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

नींद

जिसकी गोद मे था बचपन गुज़रा,
आज कर दिया उसीने पराया

आंखो मे काजल लगाते ही पलकें भारी कर जाती थी जो,
अब रात भर मिन्नतों के बाद भी आती नहीं वो

हर रोज़ सिरहाने रेहती थी जो,
अब करवटो की आहट पर भी आती नहीं वो

पैसो ने जेबो की सेहत तो बना दी,
पर मेरी सबसे कीमती चीज़ मुझसे चुराली

जिसकी गोद मे था बचपन गुज़रा,
अब लगता है होगी मुलाकात उस्से बुढ़ापे मे दुबारा

Saturday, March 12, 2011

यादें.....

जीवन के हर किस्से के हिस्सो मे है यादें,
कुछ बनते बिगडते रिश्तो की है यादें

कभी चेहरे पे हल्कि सी मुस्कान दे जाती है यादें,
कभी मुस्कुराती आंखो को नम कर जाती है यादें

कई चट्टानो सी अतल है यादें,
कई समनदरो से गहेरी है यादें

आसमान मे झिलमिलाती तारो सी है यादें,
पानी मे रोशनि की सिलवटों सी है यादें

हसाती है यादें, रुलाती है यादें,
किसी भटकते मुसाफिर की तरह हर मोड पर मिल जाती है यादें

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

COMPARISON

IT BEGINS AT THE AGE WHEN SOCIALISM BEGINS,
IT POSSESSES ALL THE POWER TO MAKE YOU OR PUT YOU IN RUINS

CONTRAST, SIMILARITY, COMPATIBILITY ARE REALIZED
DIFFERENCES, JEALOUSY, IDENTITY CRISIS ARE IMBIBED

YOU FAKE TO FIT IN THE OUTER SYMPHONY,
AND LOSE THE INNER HARMONY

HAVE IT IN YOUR POCKET WHILE LOOKING AT THINGS,
DON'T WEAR IT IN YOUR EYES WHILE JUDGING THINGS

LIFE REMAINS JUST A RACE WHEN IT GRABS YOUR BRAIN,
PULL YOURSELF OUT BEFORE IT PUTS YOU IN CHAIN

Sunday, March 6, 2011

CUT COPY PASTE LIFE

Monday -
the beginning of the MUN-dane
alarm ticks twice and them thrice
its ten past eight but still can't rise
forms and checks to fill
counting on the running bills
switching on the working mode is such a pain
and there are four more days down the lane

Tuesday -
says get USE-d to the way
schedule is done, meetings fixed
my life is already so jinxed
five in the evening seems too soon
still three files to go before the moon

Wednesday -
up at six, still feel late
a sprint through files, that is my fate
out of three, two files down
still lots in hand to make me drown

Thursday -
turns to be the WORSE-day
boss is on his round
with loads of work pilled
I am six feet under the ground

Friday -
being fully FRI-ed
I can smell the freedom
just few hours apart
after lunch break, the countdown gears
I wind up the day as Saturday nears

Why is life so unfair
when work and fun are to compare
five cruel days exploit me all my age
and I get just two to redo the damage

Sunday, February 27, 2011

modesty of mistakes

What deserves our gratitude once we reach our desired destination

luck for popping opportunities
courage that kept us going
madness that kept us head strong
hard work that turned opportunities into benchmarks of success

or the very forgotten

MISTAKES ... the wrong ways, the wrong decisions that happened while the journey. The mistakes which take us through all those negative feelings of stress, anger, breakdowns that we find pain running through our veins, but finally make the success taste lot more better than what it would have done with smooth and hassle free journey.

The realization of dreams and goals is not because of their significance but due to their absence which is felt when we take these wrong ways......

Sunday, February 20, 2011

ज़िन्द्गी

क्षितिज को छुता आस्मान,
जगाऐ है दिल मे यह अरमान,
रंगो के बादलो पर हॉस्लो के पन्ख फैलाकर तो देखो

अपनी बाहें खोले है समन्दर,
दूर दरास्त है मुश्कीलो के बव्ंदर,
लहेरो की आगोश मे अपनी कश्ती ऊतारकर तो देखो

मीलो तक बिछी है धरती,
कठीनाईयो से आगाह है करती,
इसके आंचल मे अपने कदम रखकर तो देखो

माना मूश्कील है ज़िन्दगी,
फिर भी मुखातिर है ज़िन्द्गी,
ल्म्हो के दाव-पेच आज़्माकर तो देखो

Friday, February 4, 2011

A SEARCH WITHIN ...

I find myself in a painter,
When I see a canvas worked in colors

I find myself in an actor,
When I find my emotions portrayed in an act

I find myself in a waitress,
When I get my meal served with smile

I find myself in a photographer,
When I find silence in a picturesque busy street

I find myself in a traveler,
When I can symbolize a place by just a street

I find myself in a filthy rich bitch,
When I am greedy for carrying loads of shopping bags

I find myself in a sadhu,
When i hear the temple bells ring

Still need to find a soul in me,
That truly belongs to me,
That has bits of all,
That mirrors all colors of me in one canvas,
That reflects all emotions of me in one spot light,
That serves me meal keeping intact the smile within,
Being my true negative, capturing every bit of me,
Which keeps me moving to find the me within,
Which curbs my greeds to my needs and
Rings the bells within when it connects to me

Saturday, January 15, 2011

GROWTH

Has anyone noticed that when we are growing physically, we never realize or notice our mental growth. In school and college we never thought that we were growing mentally as growing then meant reaching higher grades or next level of studies.
Once the external growth slows down, we start noticing our internal growth and at some point we start monitoring and regulating our mental growth. We don't set up benchmarks in the very beginning and try to achieve them, we find benchmarks while the journey, reach there and then stop, look back and analyze our growth. This certainly doesn't stand true for those who are busy making money and don't care about personal evolvement as a son, daughter, father, mother, spouse, friend, a social human being as for them the material growth seems rather more important.
But in the end, when they look back and find that many mistakes that they repeatedly made, could have been avoided and all that they lost in material gain could have been changed or regained, didn't happen as they didn't give themselves the evaluation voids.
So just don't live for living but live to improvise, live for betterment and live such that on your death bed you lay with satisfaction on your face. 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Human race has evolved at every stage on the basis of instincts and innovations.

Perception is a sense that follows instincts and leads to innovations.

Perception is a common sense developed in few and unused in many. It makes a thin line that separates thinkers from observers, producers from users and creative heads from the rest of the world.

Success and failure mean nothing if they don't bring learning.

Learning is the end product through consciousness which comes with the sense of perception.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

ARCHI BHAVAI


2 days before the annual function, at the canteen we were discussing over a chai to do something interesting. The day ended with an idea of a play, showing our journey through the 4 yrs of architecture. Still had lot to do, cast n crew not decided, no script with just a thought in hand i scribbled the story n we meet the next day at canteen again. Few inputs from friends, and search for cast began.......
The lead actors had to be funny n lot more funny...the two people decided for the role had a clash....and after a little beeped sessions and peace settlements we began with the rehersals....With just a day in hand....we practiced for not more than four times n were on the stage.....
all the hand gestures, props and expressions the actors got on stage were on-the-spot ideas they got....the creativity of each n every single person on stage n back stage is appreciable...the name of the play was the last thing to come up....
 i love my class for this effort n fun memories......
P.S. sorry for the bad light and video quality....being our first performance, the production house was unaware of technicalities.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

i wish i had wings

all day gleaming with the sun,
my feathers spreading over the sand
resting for a while
and again, gaining back the fun
I WISH I HAD WINGS----

going back in time,
taking the whiff of memories,
having a U turn
reliving the done
I WISH I HAD WINGS----

conquering beaches all around,
stamping every hill and rock,
accompanying fellow flyer's
overlooking those flowing deeper
I WISH I HAD WINGS----

traversing distances unknown
no idea where to go
no luggage of proving oneself
just going with the flow
I WISH I HAD WINGS----