Happened to read these lines somewhere today – I think that’s the attitude! What say?

Don’t walk as if u rule the world…..Walk as if you don’t care who does!!!

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don’t…. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Yes dear all – finally a poem after a long time that too a sequel! I had written “Ae Kavita” – one of my favorite poem on 5th July 2006 when somehow something made one of my friend feel that he means nothing to me. I think it’s the role switch play in fashion now!

Waqt baha jab pani sa,
din sai dhalti shaam, shaam se raat hui.
Kinare lagi kashti mein baithi,
mein kal sai aaj, aaj sai beeta kaal hui.

Chamakti ankheen chanda ne luti,
chandni sai bundeen, bundoon sai baujhaar hui.
Khanak hansi ki jab payal tuti,
mook pukar bani awaaz, awaaz bhi lachar hui.

Aadhaar ne hi cheena jeevan aadhaar,
dagmagai kashti, kashti jal mein baidhal hui.
Tufaan mein chal di chod akela,
apni se parayi, parayi se bilkul anjaan hui.

Ae kavita keh ki thi jise manati,
aaisi ruthi, ruthi kavita se mein lachaar hui.
Kabhi lagta hai – aapni kavita se rahoon mein ruthi,
Kabhi – vo kavita, kavita vo meri zindagi se azaad hui.

Reference: Ae Kavita (http://aroma.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/ae-kavita/)

Hello there! Are you feeling lonely by yourself and that’s why this title attracted you? If yes is being your answer then probably you should have a look here – http://www.photoblog.com/aroma/2009/03/02/

On 3rd Dec 2008, I visited this beautiful place named Havelock Island in Andaman, India. Loneliness couldn’t have been more beautiful! Isn’t it?

Mood: Lonely!!

Music: Tujhse Naraz nahi Zindagi – Masoom (www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_WV6HRq3SM)

“Let me ask you something. If somebody prays for patience, you think God gives them patience; or do they give them an opportunity to be patient? If you pray for courage; God gives courage or an opportunity to be courageous.  If somebody prays for someone to be close, do God zap them with feelings of warmth or gives them an opportunity to love?” (http://www.veoh.com/videos/v682094s8fQ4K5r)

…. and when you need patience, courage as well as warmth in real life, do God really appears or just makes timing perfect for you to watch “Evan Almighty”!! For me – the timings couldn’t have been more perfect.

I have opened doors for opportunity and while walking on thorns – I am wondering what to do? If you can associate with me - Just watch the flowers and enjoy the fragrance….  (http://www.photoblog.com/aroma/2009/03/01/)

Mood: Optimistic

Music: Genda-phool – Delhi-6 (http://video.aol.com/video-detail/genda-phool-delhi-6-lyrics/140794831)

Been out for a while (I know while is definitely an under estimation!)…. as there wasn’t anything strong that stuck my head! And suddenly, I felt that a brick wall just emerged out of no where and moved with such a great speed towards me,  hit my head so strongly that it forced me to ponder on some facts of today, I never though of! To start with one-

I wondered - What is democracy? In seconds the answer taught by our social studies teacher in 7th grade flashed in my mind and loudly I spoke – ‘The government of the people, by the people, for the people’. ‘A political system in which the supreme power lies in the body of citizens who can elect people to represent them.’ And there itself I found the answer to the questions in my minds which were asking me – What is democracy?

A series of events occurred in near past in my near vicinity where I found that cases, where police and law are involved, how threatening they could be. When someone is at fault or is guilty of some wrong doings, the fear of uncertainty is understandable. But what I saw was the truth standing in front of my eyes with shaking legs and pleading hands asking if in today’s world, will he be heard?

Suddenly, I realised how deep it means when we simply say for today that it’s Kalyug! It’s not the time when you should do something good for others! In other words, we were saying – Yes! Its the time when lie would win other truth, when bad deeds will be more recognized than the good ones and Yes, Yes I am totally okie with it!! The proverb my Hindi teacher had taught me flashed before my eye with a minor modification and there I understood the power of a question mark! The proverb was – Saanch ko aanch kya? 

… with every second passing by the fear of uncertainty in the truth is growing! .. and with every second of this growing fear the heart of democracy is chocking! I could feel him dying. It will be too early to say if as often people say that this is because of the people themselves, however I have a gut feeling that this time, its not the people but systems which are not working!

More on this… as future unveils! Till then, let me know if you also have any such story.

Placid deep, rapt in thoughts -
divine blue he looked,
as lily sat, folded hands
demurely in his lap.

August it was, now April -
blue turned blue, faint ‘n pale.
Then youthful insouciance,
now – widespread reedy lake.

So long it took me to learn
simple so, law of harmony,
Turned into a duckweed -
wished to be Water lily.

As season will turn, with
drizzle, lily will return.
By then, I wish to learn -
to be at peace with the world.

While reading “The Inheritance of Loss” – a novel by Kiran Desai, I came across a beautiful statement -

“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”

Think about it! Well…most of us I believe will answer - ”No”….. but why is it so? I have
been thinking over this from quite some time and I would share that after sometime…
meanwhile kindly enlighten me with ur thoughts.

What follows this beautiful line is also an interesting read:
“Love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack,
not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself”.

Yup! Its really just an emotional world - developed by self! So, are you still in self-illusion?

My Dear Friends,

Here’s something for you – The New Year Gift! I hope you will like it. Please send the gift I wished soon:)

As 2 is following 1 and 1 is following 3,
Two “million dollar questions” are bugging me!
Music in the air is: “Where’s the party tonight”
For rest of the world: it’s the Resolution night!

Trapped in set of answers which mapped to null,
Ran a search to get something in this thick skull!
As I read “10 must New Year resolutions” headline,
With racing pulse, riveted eyes- clicked it in no time!

Budget, portfolio, profits or read before signing,
All it talked about was execution of a financial planning!
In 10th, it resolved to follow the above 9, summarized
hoping New Year rings in the sound of gold coins!

Giving up the ghost, calmed and relaxed, so laid back
flipped through the paper tried to find a bean-feast!
Rapping floors and loud screams, found many none appealed,
Why mislay in the crowd like rest? I wanna feel the best!

Fall asleep, here in dreams, I celebrate the new year eve,
As reel winds up and flashback proceed, here’s my soiree -
Gales of laughter followed the seas, as we fooled the MNCs
Gajju’s “desh nikala” ceremony!! & Mahabaleshwar’s foggy leaves!

Pizza & drinks for house warming or walks on Dark VT streets,
Overtaking TAJ, not once but thrice or the wet lonavala trip!
The nightouts for Valfies or PAF or may be just on the sea bank.
As I think deep, as I go far, I hear the music, I feel the dance.

and here I wish to get this precious new year gift:
“A super dooper extra squeezy squishy nuzzle, snuggle huggle
knock-me-down, blow-me-over breathtakingly unforgettable Hug”!
This is the party, this’s the fun; this’s the gang and this’s the gun!
Wish you swing out of this world and far high our passions run!

A Very Happy New Year!

Have come across this poem earlier? Even if you have, it’s worth a read again!

These words have been my companion at times when I needed them them the most. I still remember when in my 4th semester, my friend Priyanka e-mailed this to me and how if made a difference then and now.

I hope it will make a difference for you too… here it goes:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

–Rudyard Kipling

Am back!

Ya, I know after a long time and most of you have forgot me and my writtings by now! But, I am back….not with a blast but with beautiful fire crackers! And atleast for next 6 months, you are gonna watch many new new things here at this place!

Everyday’s Sunday Now!!