મુસાફિરને આજે

મુસાફિરને આજે, દિશાઓ નડે છે,
વિકલ્પો નડે છે, વિસામો નડે છે.
ન હો જો કશું તો, અભાવો નડે છે,
મળે જો બધું તો, સ્વભાવો નડે છે.
લઈ એ ફરે છે હૃદયમાં દીવાલો
ના ભૂલી શક્યો જે, બનાવો નડે છે.
નવા નેત્રથી એને, જોવું છે જીવન
ઊગી છે જે આંખે, અમાસો નડે છે.
તને તારું જીવન, ફરી પાછું દેતાં,
હવે એને થોડા, લગાવો નડે છે.
- હિમાંશુ ભટ્ટ … 2005

Kabhi kabhi Aditi zindagi...

Kabhi kabhi Aditi zindagi mein yuhi koi apna lagta hai.
Kabhi kabhi Aditi wo bichhar jaaye to ek sapna lagta hai.
Aise mei koi kaise apne aansu o ko behne se roke?
Aur kaise koi sochle everything's gonna be ok?

Kabhi kabhi to lage zindagi mein rahi naa khushi aur naa mazaa.
Kabhi kabhi to lage har din mushkil aur har pal ek sazaa.
Aise mein koi kaise mushkuraye, kaise hasde khush hoke?
Aur kaise koi soch de everything gonna be ok?


Soch jara jaaneja tujhko hum kitna chahte hai.
Rotein hai hum bhi aggar teri ankhon mein aansu aate hai.
Gaane to aata nahi hai magar phir bhi hum gaate hai.
Ke Aditi maana kabhi-kabhi saare jahan mein andhera hota hai;
Lekin raat ke baad hi to sabera hota hai.

Kabhi kabhi Aditi zindagi mei yuhi koi apna lagta hai.
Kabhi kabhi Aditi wo bichhar jaaye to ek sapna lagta hai.
Hey Aditi Hasde hasde hasde hasde hasde, hasde tu zara.
Nahi to bus thora thora thora thora thora, thora mushkura.


Tu khush hai to lage ke jahan mein chhaayi hai khushi.
Suraj nikle baadlon se aur baatein zindagi.
Suun to jara madhosh hawa tujhse kehne lagi.
Ke Aditi wo jo bichhad-te hai ek na ek din phir mil jaate hai;
Aditi jaane tu ya jaane na phool phir khil jaate hai.

Kabhi kabhi Aditi zindagi mei yuhi koi apna lagta hai.
Kabhi kabhi Aditi wo bichhar jaaye to ek sapna lagta hai.
( Hey Aditi Hasde hasde hasde hasde hasde, hasde tu zara.
Nahi to bus thora thora thora thora thora, thora mushkura. )

Maine dil se kaha dhoond laana khushi

Maine dil se kaha, dhoond laana khushi
Nasamajh laya gum, to yeh gum hi sahi

Maine dil se kaha, dhoond laana khushi
Nasamajh laya gum, to yeh gum hi sahi
Maine dil se kaha dhoond laana khushi


Bechaara kahan jaanta tha
Khalish hai yeh kya khala hai
Shehar bhar ki khushi se
Yeh dard mera bhala hai
Jashna yeh raaz na aaye
Mazaa toh bas gam main aaya hai

Maine dil se kaha, dhoond laana khushi
Nasamajh laya gum, to yeh gum hi sahi

Kabhi hai ishq ka ujaala
Kabhi hai maut ka andhera
Bataao kaun bes hoga
Main jogi banu ya lutera
Kayi chehre hai is dil ke
Najaane kaunsa mera

Maine dil se kaha dhoond laana khushi
Nasamajh laya gum, to yeh gum hi sahi


Hazaaron aaise phaasle the
Jo Tai karne chale the
raahe magar chal padi thi
Aur peeche hum rah gaye the
kadam Do chaar chal paaye
Kiye phere tere mann ke

Maine dil se kaha, dhoond laana khushi
Nasamajh laya gum, to yeh gum hi sahi

Maine dil se kaha, dhoond laana khushi
Nasamajh laya gum, to yeh gum hi sahi

You reach at a stage in life when its stops giving and starts taking...

I heard this quote, sentence when I was watching a movie and it went straight to my mind, heart. What a big sentence and how silently said... "You reach at a stage in life when its stops giving and starts taking"

One way to look at this thing according to movie is, When we are young, we have opportunity to meet new people, we have opportunity to make relations, to have new ideas, to have new vision, dare, opportunity... but as the wheel of life turns and turns... hands in clock moves and moves... we reach at a stage when we start loosing what we have.. We don’t have as many friends as before, we don’t have as many ideas as before... we don’t have as much opportunities, vision or dare as before. We become weak, we become slave of time... we become Nothing. This quote can remind us to gather as much as we can, spread as much good as we can so that when its time to give back.... we have options to live and give more out of the kitty we gathered.

But one thing which I noticed here is its not age but your thought that makes you feel this... If you think you are loosing then you are... I haven’t been in great thought over past few months and thought that it has taken enough toll on me... i have lost many things and way ahead seems dark.. But I have not grown that old that it starts taking... i have not lost hairs from my head that life needs them too... its in thoughts and thats what drives our lives.. We are what we think... we are what we believe in... I am what I believe in... I believe in you... But do you believe in me???

UNSHED WORD

UNSHED WORD

A little unshed rain drop
May look too small
But
somewhere a thirsty flower awaits its floor.

A little unshed word unsaid
May look too small to say
But
somewhere for that one word
A heart may pray.

It was sent to me by Harsh, I had to search for its author on the net. Pardon if I am wrong, but I guess its written by Allison, Hellen Thomas.
I must say what a commendable work. We see the flowers, tress, and plants around us. Day by day they keep loosing the charm they have, they loose the bright green carpet, the fragrance they have... But just a drop of rain, brings back everything. They are in joy again. Haven’t it makes them forget the wait they have to do it for this rebirth or regain of the beauty they had? Each plant around awaits the rain, and author had made a great work by saying thirsty flower. I don’t know whether ever I can be able to put this in the words or the meaning this poem has, but its really great work.

Life is quite miserable when it doesn't go by the standards you look at. I spent yesterday whole night roaming at the Colaba, Marine Drive, Worli sea face etc and I met a friend of friend. We were discussing about social ties that each of us are or will be bound to. He said, spend a year before you tie your self. I was just thinking on this, and I wondered how does it help. Many of the people spend considerable time to know and to know better. But sometimes you met or you don't meet, it feels like eternity. You spend a quality time together and then as said in the quote "somewhere for that one word A heart may pray."

You pray for the things to go your way, but they never. You come across situations in life when you are screwed up, (like me??? never :) ). You feel you have lost the way but path you want to travel is in front of your eyes but the toll is what you are unable to pay. The toll here the word you want to hear.. if you cant hear that word, you cant travel, because .."... somewhere for that one word A heart may pray ..."

Past 2 days, except yesterday's night were worse. Don't know what to say but they are like cheapest of your life. No value for you, yourself and you cant complain too. You are dieing inside, the hattered is growing and you lie to yourself that things are great. Why it happens when you don't want to do something, yet you have to do it. When you don't want to live, still you have to breathe, when you want to shut your eyes, you wake up.. why??? Just for one thing.."... somewhere for that one word A heart may pray ..."

I don't know how long I will be able to be courageous, how long I will be able to lie to myself, I don't know how long the survival of the fittest will last.. but as long as it last, as long its there... its a hope... for a "UNSHED WORD"... its only till that day because then it doesn't make a difference....

First Rain...

It was a dark night and I was standing in the balcony. Looking at the sky and the far off lights on the hills. Suddenly lighting struck in the sky and it started thundering... Slowly a wet smell of the ground refreshed each one... a new life of the plant restored, a cool breeze started to flow and there it came... first rain of the season... Greeting of the first rain to all...

As it started to fall and life on the street started disappearing, an emptiness filled on the roads, and remembrance of the people came. I sometimes wonder about human feeling, how they shape up and how weak sometimes a person is in front of his or her feeling. Like wise, rainy season is a season where you remember the playing in the muds, getting wet in the rain, scolding of mom for getting wet yet again in the day, reasons to avoid school, looking at the person you love getting wet in the rain. Holding the hands and you don’t find any vehicles to commute, the wait for vehicle with person you hold close to your heart, you wait for it to come early so that you can drop her home safely, but, at the same time thinking and praying for vehicle to get delayed so that this romantic fall of the sky, the water from her face dropping on the grounds, or falling on your hand and you taste it to feel her closer... Aha nothing can be beautiful...

Imagine.. You are returning from a movie, rain started, you stuck on the road, waters and you board the heavily crowed bus. You stare the person you love and she feels embarrass as you look at her clothes stuck to her skin, She is sitting and you are standing next to her, looking at her from head to toe from height… she is adjusting of her dupatta and you turn your face not to embarrass her.. And there you feel the richest person in the world. Rain made your day and you started loving it more... Rainy seasons can make many good things and you have countless encounters when you think of becoming child again in this rain... Walk on Marine Drive say, a cool evening, single blue jadoo types windcheater and you two.. Just rains dropping and you walking....Amazing it can be...

Each season has its beauty and I guess rain is the season of flourishing love.. Rain gives new life to everything... Trees and nature earth awakens to a green carpet, you feel life flowing in them.. As I look through my office window and I see trees dancing and rejoicing in the rain... Rain fulfills the thirst of the earth. Rains nothing beats the beauty of this season...

Also another aspect of the beauty of the rain is the colors filling the sky in the form or Rainbow. It reminds how colorful things can be after a dark and wet day. After thunders, beauty of silence emerges. I was able to spot it last weekend, when I was on long drive along the costal way in the rain with bunch of friends. We were going along the beach, waves were coming to shore with all the force they had.. High tide was on its way.. Dark clouds and mild sun light made it stunning beautiful. And there it appeared.. Colors come in half circle and a beautiful rainbow.. It reminds me of the all the good times we had, having and we are going to have. A beauty beyond the words...

Truly a rainy season is the reason to ignite the passion, recreate the world, awaking again with a new vigor and freshness.. Let’s take on the things because we are ready....

Some nice quotes I found on the net on the rain..



How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and the heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
-By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Rain in Summer


An angel in disguise she was, but somehow you fell for her. Until she broke your heart that day, and left you in the rain, but still I love you.”
-By ?????

Busy in the race of life...

How big a word is i am busy... and i was just discussing this with one of my friend with whom i went to the ride in sea yesterday. I told her how big this word or execuse is, "I am busy at today, or i am busy since past X hours, days"

But are we really that much occupied in the race with the time. I gues we are not. When we really want to do something, when we really want to meet someone, and when we really want to talk to someone, I know we can make time. I know i can make time. One of my friend was flying to the Netherlands, and when i told him, lets catch for a tea today noon. I know he had just one day in hand and he had to do all the packing, all the documents to pack and complete the office formalities, and what i got in return answer, "Sure!!! lets have it". We met and talked for a while only, we shared just a cuppa but i know he had to takeout 2 hours to make that happen, then i know he had to extend his work by 2 hours, packing in the late night and fly early. It made me realise, if want to do something, meet someone, or talk to someone, "I am so busy today", is a useless execuse that we all give. We can always find time for whom we want to meet, share ourselves and do what we actually want to do, be it not for a day but we can always have some minutes spared for someone if we really cared for that person. And if we tell that person, i am so busy today, we dont care for that person, because for person you care, you have always time in hand. If we really cared, and loved that person, we can always have time, what so ever out schedule can be and thus however busy my life can become, i will always find for a cup of tea, coffee, and share a time. Because, thats the only way i can show, i can care, i can meet and i can know, as no one is so much busy for not having a moment before its too much distance to apart.

People say, time changes everything, but i guess in this life, we dont have time in hand to change also. I came across a nice quote by Georgia O'Keeffe(American Painter, 1887-1986), which goes like,

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”

From the, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8,

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.

As truly stated, we have time for everything, to born, to die, to plant, to plunk, to seek, weep, mourn or embrace... But what is in real is, We have no time... I must stop this now as "I dont have much time"