Love in the air and I feel it..

When love is in the air

And when u see rainbow all around

Its time to let your heart

Sing a song.. no.. songs unbound

When you feel the sweetness of companionship

and feel the pain of distance

Its time to fly with ur wings spread together

In the country-land of misty romance dense.

Hold the hand of your beloved

Tell her how much you love her

How much you wanna spend the rest of your life

Lost in her hazel eyes and hair as soft as fur

Tell her you would always see

Her as beautiful as she is now

Even when you both are wrinkled and bent

She would be the most beautiful to you and how

When you feel the starry night so bright my lady

Tell the man of your dreams that he is the One

His arms are your world and his touch heavenly

And that you dream  with him, countless such days of fun

Gurl wake up and live your dream

With the man you have always loved

The man who promised you not sun nor moon nor stars

But a life long of  tranquil existence with your beloved.

God Bless you both.

Titliyan..

dil tha khilauna
chalo toot gaya, kya kahein
koi saathi tha, jisse chaha tha
wohi loot gaya, kya kahein

titliyan yaadon ki udti jaayein
rangon mein mujhse kuch kehti jaayein

ek jheel thi, kayee phool thay
sub mit gaye, kya kahein

chaha tha kehna, na kaha, chup rahay
rahon mein tanha chalte hi hum rahay

titliyan yaadon ki udti jaayein
rangon mein mujhse kuch kehti jaayein

girti kirnein, tera aanchal
kaise bhoolein, kya kahein
gaati koyel, mehka aangan
kaise bhoolein, kya kahein

titliyan yaadon ki udti jaayein
rangon mein mujhse kuch kehti jaayein

teri chaha thi meri roshni
abh bujh gayee, kya kahein
dil tha khilauna
chalo toot gaya, kya kahein
kya kahein

One of the most touching sad songs.. stirs the emotions of longing.. of that sweet sadness of memories revisited. Somehow this song has never left me blue… just a bit sad and moved. Beautiful in one word..

Music… of Life

The bell tinkled and I woke up

Blue expanse awaited me with abated breath

The mist had not yet settled down

And the music of chimes floated in.

I felt alive in the warmth

Golden rays bathing me

Eyes were searching for the forms finite

And settled down on the rainbow instead

Shifting and undulating forms of colors

changing shapes and livid with inspirations unseen

Life unfolded before me

The notes of happiness weaving themselves

In the depths of passion unfathomed

The blues accompanying brightness unseen

And my lips formed the song of .. Life.

Main hoon lab.. tu dua… dono judd ke juda..

This song is so very deep. Its a song about love, about passion, about longingness, about your beloved and about everything which u dream of. Its an aspirational song as well as a lament if u choose to view it that way.

I felt so touched by this song.. it reminded me of the beauty I associate with the feeling of love. In every form, this is the most expansive and deepest feeling. I respect love as an idea, romanticize it, revel in its warmth and revere it as well. For me, a person who is incapable of loving another person is as good as non-human.. well even animals know how to love. I have felt hate for just one person till now (on second thought this is a lie, I do not dislike anyone enough to hate him/her)… loathing for few more than one. Hate is not the absence of love. It is actually an all consuming feeling which makes u burn ur insides. For once, you wish bad for someone. I tried doing it.. but the song made me realize that am incapable of doing it. I believe in love too much to give up on it and make place for hate in my life. Even if the hurt has gone deep enough to make me bleed for days and months… I am incapable of hating the person causing it. I have truly the strength to move on.

I am happy being the one to have not let myself break down. Stumble I did, scraped my knees as well as heart.. but have the pride to never let the hope go away forever. I no hate someone even if I have no reason to love. That’s my strength and am proud of it. Even if my prayer is off my lips, it will always remain a prayer to me.

Passion… an elixir to perpetual youth

I have met many people in last few days and found myself asking the same question again and again. What makes them the way they are. I found that one thing all these successful people had in their life was – Passion. Their age had nothing to do with the eternally burning fire within them. A colleague of mine – a 42 year old person who has seen many ups and downs in his life summed it nicely for me – “I want to be the best in whatever I do. I want to anticipate each surprise that can be sprung up on me. I want to be as good in this industry as I was in my profession for last eighteen years.”

It was inspiring to say the least. He is trying to find his footings in an industry totally alien to him just 4 months ago and I felt if he can bear that attitude, why can’t everyone else who complain and crib about the things they do not like about their work.

There was this other gentleman whom I met due to business reason and he was so passionate about his line of work that I almost fell in love with his business. It is so contagious!!

All these people are in their early forties to early fifties and they have more passion than most of my batchmates. They do not look at life with respect to what it gives to them.. they look at it more like what they can get out of it. It is their passion in life.. an outlook which makes them youthful, in appearance as well in mindset. Be it a musician, an actor, a business man, an artist, a beautician, a home maker, a finance expert or an IT professional.. unless you live your work, you can not enjoy it to the fullest extent and  neither can you have the feeling of contentment after a hard day’s work enveloping you everyday, making you immune to everything negative.

I applaud for all those people who live each day with just one thing – Passion. Those are the people who are eternally youthful and radiant.

Sunshine and Rain

Its a beautiful day – bright sunshine, blue skies, fragrant breeze after a brief shower. It has made my Saturday morning sunny. Its so nice to hold a cup of warm tea and observe everything around me. Passersby who show myriad colours of life, blowing horns shout crazily different stories with each passing second and the thickening smell of jasmine and fresh earth in the air brings me to just one conclusion – life is so very beautiful in its various forms. One has to just open one’s senses to look around with perfect love.

One feels as happy as one allows one’s to feel. I am happy and contended because I have chosen this for myself.. with loads of effort, with loads of patience. I have allowed myself to be receptive to everything positive around me and filter out the negatives. No, I dnt ignore negatives. In a way negatives make me appreciate the positives even more. Hence i accept negatives too.. filtering those out means I dnt allow negatives to affect me negatively.

My reflective mood is showing off… am going more and more abstract . But I am loving it absolutely.

Yesterday I quoted this to someone and I realized I have lived by these lines -

Men may come and men may go

But I go on forever.

And it brought a smile on my face.. and I sing the song -

“Sunshine on my shoulders make me happy…. “

A new beginning…

After the darkest hour comes the dawn. It is a simple truth in life but how often we fail to believe it. I faced few of the toughest months of my life.. emotionally I had become a wreck. But here I am, willing to smile once again at the wonders of life. It will take some time for me to laugh at my own stupidity but atleast the smile is back.

I am back to books, music, work and family. It already feels better. I am now starting afresh.. a new beginning.. a new dawn.. with new promises and new aspirations. I do have the pain but it has become dull with time.  Life doesn’t stop.. not even for me to cry over my own broken heart and now I am all the more thankful to it. It has taught me once again that even though I can be weak at times, I can always count on myself for helping me bounce back.

Within a week things will change irreversibly forever. Am I sad? Yes, I am. Am I disappointed? Yes, I am. But I am no longer sitting with these feelings. I am making an effort to keep it in the bin where it belongs. And yes I am succeeding at that. Happy to be myself again.

Alvida..

Alvida keh rahi hoon.. un sabko yahan pe

Jo reh jayenge ab sirf yadon mein

Kabhi muskurate hue kabhi rote hue

Kabhi shaklein banake hansate hue

Kabhi woh pyaar se kiya hua mazaak

Kabhi gusse mein ki woh bahas

Kabhi sabse tang aaker is jageh ko chod dene ka vichaar

Kabhi kisiki taang kheechna

Kabhi kisi ko laat maarna

Kabhi mess ke dhakke, kabhi fauji ke samose

Kabhi GoBi ke parnathe aur kabhi JT ki Ginger tea

Kabhi insti party ki masti

Kabhi exams ka tension

Kabhi doston ke saath bike ride

Kabhi bus random bakar

Kabhi heated politics and votes ka chakker

Kabhi cricket mein chakka padne pe ek shor

Kabhi quiz ke liye padhna aur kabhi blona chadd yaar

Kabhi woh class mein sona aur kabhi ACP

Kabhi raat bhar jaagna bini kisi reason

Kabhi din bhar sona jab kaam ho sir pe

Kabhi nescafe ki sidhiyon pe baithna

Kabhi hostel ki chat pe raat ko taare ginna

Kabhi bus aise hi hawa se baatein kerna

Kabhi birthday pe cake lagana

Kabhi kisiko ande, sauce, coke and chips se nehlana

Kabhi competition ke liye teams banana

Kabhi Index ke liye ladkiyan poach kerna

Kabhi doston se lad ke rooth jaana

Kabhi unhein gaali deke manana

Kabhi aise hi akele nikal jaana tedhe medhe raaston pe

Kabhi mor dekhke khud nachne lagna

Kabhi puppies ke saath khelna

Kabhi daaru peeke tunn ho jaana

Kabhi secrets her kisi ko batana

Kabhi woh ped pe chad ke foto khinchana

Kabhi exam time pe zor se music chalana

Kabhi akele poore hostel mein rukna aur apni milkiyat samajhna

Kabhi room ganda kerna and fir yeh pran lena ke kabhi saaf nahi hoga

Kabhi anginat ghante library mein sir khapate hue nikalna

Kabhi CC mein sirf garmi lene ko jaana

Kabhi class mein name tag le ke baithna

Kabhi 3 logon ki proxy maarna

Kabhi exams ke pehle raat bhar jaagna

Kabhi us raat mein sirf bakar maarna aur exam mein so jaana

Kabhi doston ke kandhon pe sir rakh ke rona

Kabhi unke saath thahake maarke unke gham bhulana

Yeh sab mere paas rah jayengi

Kuch aanson aur kuch muskurahat deke jayengi

Red..

Spread on the canvas it beckons you

Splashed on the body it disgusts you

When in the eyes it troubles you

When in the heart it kills you

It is RED.

It is passion and poison

It is love and hate

It is life and death

It is RED..

It is you and me

It is they and us

It is the separation and nearness

It is RED..

May Lady Luck smile on you!!

May lady luck smile on u!!That is what I pray for all my friends and people I love.. It is a tough time and tougher for me due to other reasons too.. I wish I had that support with me which was my strength. Anyways.. this is the time to bless each other, help each other, be there for each other.. holding each others’ hands for support, comfort and assurance that everything good is going to happen to us.

If I had to say one thing to someone I love .. it would be .. May God give u everything in life that u want… be happy always and God Bless u…