Thandi si mastt hawa…idhar-udhar se, shareer ko chooke ja rahi thi….
Dhoop mein bhi sardi waali baat thi…. Tez hote hue bhi chamdi ko sehla rahi thi….
Mausam mein bass.. aalass hi aalass tha… fiza mein aaraam hi aaraam beh raha tha….
Duniya daari ki ghadi ne samay dikhaya…kuch 11 baj ke 15-16 minute hue they ussmein...
Raat hai ya dinn kisse pata karna tha….par dhoop ne ye keh diya tha…ki abhi uska time hai… humne maan liya…aur ek aur karwat li…aur aankhein moond lin…humari to abhi raat hai…
Aur abhi sirf mein aur sirf mere pal mere saath hain…sukoon hi sukoon ka ehsaas hai….
Kabhi kabhi aisa lagta hai…ki life mein sab kuch kitna sahi chal raha hai…
Dheemey dheemey sarak rahi hai…koi load nahi hai…koi tension nahi hai….
Kuch na kuch to sabko karna padta hai…jismein Naukri to kareeb har koi karta hai…
Theek hai yaar…load mat lo…saala naukri ko ATM machine samjho…tab tak, jab tak, kuch aur nahi de sakti woh…aakhir paise se bhi to pyaar hai hi tumhein….
Hai ki nahi…ye shopping-woh shopping….idhar khana-udhar khana…jaise bhi ho jaib halki rakhna…to aish kar na saaale abhi….
Aise furast ke din…aur aisi sone waali raatein kaha milegi yaar….
Nahana hai to nahao…nahi to bhaad mein jaao…
Sirf novel padhna hai aaj…theek hai…bina brush kiye “Keep Off The Grass” padh maar poori ki poori…aur dekh…ki tu bhi kitna intellectual hai…
aur jab padh li ho, to mastt khana order kar ley Juneja ke yahan se….Dal Makhani and Missi ki Roti...waah waah…
Tab tak…thoda aur aaraam karo yaaar….kya fite hai….movie dekho kaunsi aayi hai…
Welcome to Sajjanpur…aaj shaam ko isse welcome kar do…aur khaane ke pehle brush karna hai to kar le…bell bajne wali hai khane ki…....
……Kyoon itna chillana…kyoon itna frustiyaana… Life is good, its really good. Doosro ki life dekhoge to samajh mein ayega…I m not saying ki dont dream high or don’t limit your self, but while doing so, don’t forget that life does not require you to be a super successful hero to keep you happy. Life is all what is needed to be happy and small things that make it up and give it meaning are not that tough to attain, but yes they are tough to realize.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
A NEW Life awaits YOU
While listening someone sing, do you ever feel, "Hey I used to sing so well..but I never tried it..". Or seeing someone play Tennis you ever felt that rush of your soul out on the court to just play it...
Last time when I went to my home, I felt like showing to my Papa, how I write on my blog. He read it for a while, immensely into the bakar I wrote and then giving that peculiar, admiring, Papa smile, saying, "tum to bahut achhha likhte ho".
And then came something, which all of us have heard at many times.
"There was a time when I used to write and sing. I liked it so much. Even playing mouth organ was great fun".
And I don’t know from where it came out onto my tongue, that I replied to him, "I don’t wana say this, when I grow as old as you are, to anyone and more than that to me at least".
Everybody keeps on telling this thing to almost everyone, “Listen to your heart”, “If you don’t listen to your heart then you will never be happy”, and many such clichéd phrases. The degree of the commonness of these phrases and “gyaan” is only matched by the degree of their violation; how many of the people ever born in this world have followed their heart, their instincts and their intuitions?
I don’t know that figure.
But I do know two things about it- First, they are very less in comparison to the men who haven’t, very less, I can’t quote a figure, but my intuition says around 2-3%. Second thing, those who have had followed their heart, they are the ones to have brought this evolution in the world, all the beautiful creations of the human civilization and all the development and just everything that we humans take pride on.
We all know and believe that each one of us is born with some inherent strengths, interests, bents and likings. And we also know that if Sachin played, say, hockey or went on to become a doctor, then we might have not even known him; one can’t fire a light with water.
But, even then most of us go the wrong way; the most commonly used way and just end up admiring others (I don’ say its wrong, but first you should admire yourself) and regretting of not what we did, but what we didn’t.
So, who’s responsible?
I would say, WE are responsible for the fate we chose and for the life we live.
No one, but WE.
We all forget that we were born to pursue some endeavor, to travel some path, to strike some chord, to ignite some fire, to draw some lines, to voice some voice, to do something that we really want to do.
You might say that all this depends not only on you but society, family background, country, etc. etc. Well, all of them are just EXCUSES and not the REASON.
You sat for that company in the campus, not for the work, but for the money you needed to satisfy your desires and not needs. You didn’t take up that career because what everyone would say and think about you and your family. You are not leaving your current job, even after hating every moment in it and just waiting for the return cab to drop you at home because it might destabilize your cash flow or your chances of marrying a good mate. Keep on saying them. Innumerous you can say, but you can’t give me a reason, a single HONEST REASON.
Why?
Because, of the fear of failing, fear of that insecurity of losing whatever good things you have, fear of coming out of your comfort zones, etc. etc.
And you keep on living your life, counting every passing day, weekend, month and year and lying to yourself and deadening that free bird inside you which wanted to live its dreams and fly to a place where there would be peace and satisfaction. Slowly and slowly you shackle your free will in innumerous formalities, responsibilities, behaviors and every damn thing that civilized culture has given to you.
You are not happy. You are alive but not living. You are not you anymore. You are just any other human who lost himself in anonymity.
Why? Why are you doing this to yourself?
Start listening to your inner voice. Start doing that, what you know you can do best. Start living for yourself. And, it wont call for any big sacrifices or rebellion or departing. All it would require is self knowledge, self constraint, rational prioritizing and yes, a strong self belief.
And, if you stil dont know a thing you can die for, then atleast keep living to find that reason, and then live for that reason.
Start a new life because I really don’t know whether there is a second.
So, start living in this life.
Last time when I went to my home, I felt like showing to my Papa, how I write on my blog. He read it for a while, immensely into the bakar I wrote and then giving that peculiar, admiring, Papa smile, saying, "tum to bahut achhha likhte ho".
And then came something, which all of us have heard at many times.
"There was a time when I used to write and sing. I liked it so much. Even playing mouth organ was great fun".
And I don’t know from where it came out onto my tongue, that I replied to him, "I don’t wana say this, when I grow as old as you are, to anyone and more than that to me at least".
Everybody keeps on telling this thing to almost everyone, “Listen to your heart”, “If you don’t listen to your heart then you will never be happy”, and many such clichéd phrases. The degree of the commonness of these phrases and “gyaan” is only matched by the degree of their violation; how many of the people ever born in this world have followed their heart, their instincts and their intuitions?
I don’t know that figure.
But I do know two things about it- First, they are very less in comparison to the men who haven’t, very less, I can’t quote a figure, but my intuition says around 2-3%. Second thing, those who have had followed their heart, they are the ones to have brought this evolution in the world, all the beautiful creations of the human civilization and all the development and just everything that we humans take pride on.
We all know and believe that each one of us is born with some inherent strengths, interests, bents and likings. And we also know that if Sachin played, say, hockey or went on to become a doctor, then we might have not even known him; one can’t fire a light with water.
But, even then most of us go the wrong way; the most commonly used way and just end up admiring others (I don’ say its wrong, but first you should admire yourself) and regretting of not what we did, but what we didn’t.
So, who’s responsible?
I would say, WE are responsible for the fate we chose and for the life we live.
No one, but WE.
We all forget that we were born to pursue some endeavor, to travel some path, to strike some chord, to ignite some fire, to draw some lines, to voice some voice, to do something that we really want to do.
You might say that all this depends not only on you but society, family background, country, etc. etc. Well, all of them are just EXCUSES and not the REASON.
You sat for that company in the campus, not for the work, but for the money you needed to satisfy your desires and not needs. You didn’t take up that career because what everyone would say and think about you and your family. You are not leaving your current job, even after hating every moment in it and just waiting for the return cab to drop you at home because it might destabilize your cash flow or your chances of marrying a good mate. Keep on saying them. Innumerous you can say, but you can’t give me a reason, a single HONEST REASON.
Why?
Because, of the fear of failing, fear of that insecurity of losing whatever good things you have, fear of coming out of your comfort zones, etc. etc.
And you keep on living your life, counting every passing day, weekend, month and year and lying to yourself and deadening that free bird inside you which wanted to live its dreams and fly to a place where there would be peace and satisfaction. Slowly and slowly you shackle your free will in innumerous formalities, responsibilities, behaviors and every damn thing that civilized culture has given to you.
You are not happy. You are alive but not living. You are not you anymore. You are just any other human who lost himself in anonymity.
Why? Why are you doing this to yourself?
Start listening to your inner voice. Start doing that, what you know you can do best. Start living for yourself. And, it wont call for any big sacrifices or rebellion or departing. All it would require is self knowledge, self constraint, rational prioritizing and yes, a strong self belief.
And, if you stil dont know a thing you can die for, then atleast keep living to find that reason, and then live for that reason.
Start a new life because I really don’t know whether there is a second.
So, start living in this life.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
ROCK ON!!!
In life people mature, people change and times change, forcing many other things to change and most of the times we don’t like this sweep of change around us.
What all this leaves us with is a complex emotional puzzle- How to tackle this ever going change and keep ourselves happy and more than this which is that one thing which we love, love like life or even more and how to keep this love of ours intact and eternal.
Four things that have always defined a good life are- Friends, Family, Love & Work. There are very few people who have all of these at one point of time and life presents us all this challenge of having a balance among all such forces around us.
This is what ROCK ON!! is all about. Everything that life brings with itself and everything that happens to us through these transitions and exposures.
Every character has played their character in reel life as if it were real life.
I have never seen Prachi (Sakshi) with an eye other than that of a beauty admirer, but she came along too well and did all justice to her simple, loving, caring and non complaining wife’s role.
Farhan Akhtar (Aditya) deserves every possible applaud for the way he has proved himself as a true and talented artist- writer, singer, guitarist, director and now also as an actor. Lead singer of the band of four, “Magik”, he is like a guy who is just the hero of any group; every group has a hero. He gets lost in the world of Investment Banking (yes this word lights up connections with IIMs, huge sums of money, etc) making everything except money, totally missing out on his life and his wife. Arjun Rampal (Joe) delivers his second good performance of the year and second best of his life, energized by OSO, as lead guitarist of Magik- mercurial, passionate and a totally emotional guy who knows only about the strings and is purely unworldly but always supported by his wife, Shabana Goswami (Debby), who aspired to be a fashion designer and ended up running Joe’s family business of fish selling, supporting her family. She has acted like anything.
Purab Kohli (KD) is a drummer with a rich father and is the funniest guy among all, who becomes a Gujju look alike, entering his father’s business, following the fallout of Magik. He flirts beautifully with Prachi’s friend, Koel Puri (Devika), and their eye clashes are just too charming.
Most of the iconic bands have had their piece of tragic stories associated with them and this was added by the keyboard player of Magik, Luke Kenny (Rob), who continues playing for others including Annu Malik after the band’s fallout and his only wish being again playing with Magik. He dies of cancer towards the end of the Magik called Rock On and living his dream.
Watch this movie for how MAGIK began, ended and then RE BEGIN.
In life, always keep a RESTART switch on.
Right now I am in a similar sort of state in life, so felt very much connected with the movie, though it’s a different thing that I don’t have love and work going my in way as of now. But this is a sweet message, beautifully conveyed in Rock On, that what may come don’t give up on your best things just because life is giving you some shit.
Keep Rocking and living and loving life and the loveable ones.
And if you know a reason for which you can die, then live for it.
LIVE YOUR DREAM!!!
What all this leaves us with is a complex emotional puzzle- How to tackle this ever going change and keep ourselves happy and more than this which is that one thing which we love, love like life or even more and how to keep this love of ours intact and eternal.
Four things that have always defined a good life are- Friends, Family, Love & Work. There are very few people who have all of these at one point of time and life presents us all this challenge of having a balance among all such forces around us.
This is what ROCK ON!! is all about. Everything that life brings with itself and everything that happens to us through these transitions and exposures.
Every character has played their character in reel life as if it were real life.
I have never seen Prachi (Sakshi) with an eye other than that of a beauty admirer, but she came along too well and did all justice to her simple, loving, caring and non complaining wife’s role.
Farhan Akhtar (Aditya) deserves every possible applaud for the way he has proved himself as a true and talented artist- writer, singer, guitarist, director and now also as an actor. Lead singer of the band of four, “Magik”, he is like a guy who is just the hero of any group; every group has a hero. He gets lost in the world of Investment Banking (yes this word lights up connections with IIMs, huge sums of money, etc) making everything except money, totally missing out on his life and his wife. Arjun Rampal (Joe) delivers his second good performance of the year and second best of his life, energized by OSO, as lead guitarist of Magik- mercurial, passionate and a totally emotional guy who knows only about the strings and is purely unworldly but always supported by his wife, Shabana Goswami (Debby), who aspired to be a fashion designer and ended up running Joe’s family business of fish selling, supporting her family. She has acted like anything.
Purab Kohli (KD) is a drummer with a rich father and is the funniest guy among all, who becomes a Gujju look alike, entering his father’s business, following the fallout of Magik. He flirts beautifully with Prachi’s friend, Koel Puri (Devika), and their eye clashes are just too charming.
Most of the iconic bands have had their piece of tragic stories associated with them and this was added by the keyboard player of Magik, Luke Kenny (Rob), who continues playing for others including Annu Malik after the band’s fallout and his only wish being again playing with Magik. He dies of cancer towards the end of the Magik called Rock On and living his dream.
Watch this movie for how MAGIK began, ended and then RE BEGIN.
In life, always keep a RESTART switch on.
Right now I am in a similar sort of state in life, so felt very much connected with the movie, though it’s a different thing that I don’t have love and work going my in way as of now. But this is a sweet message, beautifully conveyed in Rock On, that what may come don’t give up on your best things just because life is giving you some shit.
Keep Rocking and living and loving life and the loveable ones.
And if you know a reason for which you can die, then live for it.
LIVE YOUR DREAM!!!
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