ख्वाहिशें

हल्की फुल्की सी है ज़िन्दगी

बोझ तो ख्वाहिशों का है।
ना जाने ये कैसा जाल
मन की साज़िशों का है।

सोचते थे... ख्वाहिशें ना हों, तो खुद से ऊब जाएंगे।
कहाँ पता था, ख्वाहिशों के समुंदर में खुद ही डूब जाएंगे।

सोचते थे... वो भी क्या दिन होगा, जब अपने बंगले की छत से उगता सूरज देख पाएँगे।
कहाँ पता था इस चाह में हम सूरज देखना ही भूल जाएँगे।

सपने पूरे करने चले थे... सपने देखना ही भूल गए।
ख्वाहिशों के बंधन में कुछ यूँ फंसे, ज़िन्दगी जीना ही भूल गए।

आज आया है होश फिर एक बार... इसे यूँ ही नहीं गंवाएँगे।
ख्वाब अभी भी सजाएँगे मगर, ये छोटी छोटी खुशियाँ नहीं भूल जाएँगे।

ज़िन्दगी के इस तराज़ू में... तौल कर कदम बढ़ाएँगे।
आगे तो बढ़ेंगे ही मगर, ज़रा थम कर इस पल का भी लुत्फ उठाएँगे।

हल्की फुल्की सी है ज़िन्दगी।
हंसी खुशी ही बिताएँगे।।

Life. Love. Choice.

There's always an alternative.

There sure is another way.

But once you choose it,

There's no getting away.

The choice isn't always easy,

And yet you have to choose.

You sure should try to win it all,

And yet, at times, you choose to lose.

When you do try to win Everything. Everyone.

Sometimes you just fall.

I believe, you win some, you lose some.

When the game ends, it’s never Love All!

A Broken Vase

With a pounding stroke,

the vase went down.

In a matter of seconds,

it was in pieces – red, white, brown.

Red were the flowers, booming inside.

Beautiful they once appeared,

till it shattered, and everything died.

White it had been, up, intact,

glittering, glowing,

it looked very much alive, in fact.

Brown it got as it gradually decayed,

unnoticed, ignored,

in a corner, it stayed.

But what’s the big deal; it’s ultimately just a vase.

It’s not like it’s the only one that fell and broke apart.

It’s just that, may be, this vase was close to my heart.

It’s just that, may be, this vase was closer to my heart.

Life is Beautiful...

“Open your eyes; look at the world around you; observe every tiny-little detail and you will realize how beautiful the world is!”

There are times in everybody’s life when things don’t happen exactly as we want them to. There are times when life does test our character in ways that are beyond our understanding. Life has always been about survival of the fittest and not everyone survives through these tests.

When things go our way, doesn’t everything seem so perfect? Doesn’t everyone seem so good to us? Don’t we feel so good about everything? Doesn’t life seem so beautiful? Then what exactly does happen when things start going wrong! The nature remains the same; people remain the same; hell, we remain the same; life remains the same. What changes is our perspective.

“Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder”­— one tends to find such phrases clichéd, but see how beautifully it describes the situation. The world is how we look at it. We get so involved in the bigger picture that we miss out on those small beautiful aspects of life. We keep ourselves busy in school, college, job, and while we are involved in these, we more often than not ignore the years, months and days of our lives. In order to secure our future, we forget to live the present, and by the time we realize that, it already becomes too late.

We need to correct our perspective before this realization dawns on us. We need to live life. There is so much beauty around us; all we need is to open our eyes and observe it. Be it watching the rain drops trickle down from leaves or talking to a friend looking at a star-studded sky or just savouring a chocolate to the last bit; even such seemingly small things give us immense pleasure! There is something in these tiny-little things that lets us free of all the tensions and pressures of life and lets us be in the moment. Even a few such moments in a day compensate for all the troubles that marked the rest of the day.

In nutshell, no one can survive without the fight that life is, but if we just search for those few moments every day, everything automatically gets back on track.

Life indeed is beautiful ­— there are hidden treasures of happiness everywhere. All we need to do is to search for these from heart and I promise you’ll never be disappointed!