जिओ ज़िन्दगी !

I have been writing for some time, but this is something that I tried for the first time! Writing on a preset theme. A friend of mine needed a 45 Seconds video that describes one as 'Living life to the fullest'! Another first was me narrating it on records! Below is the final outcome. If you like it, please hit like on the You Tube video as well - It'll help the cause in the competition! :) 

आते जाते .. इत्तेफाकन,

कभी न कभी ऐसे लोग मिल ही जाते हैं जो...

मंजिले फ़तेह करते हैं ... 

राहों से फूल भी चुनते हैं

दौड़ते  हैं  सबसे  तेज़... 

पर धड़कन से संगत भी करते हैं.

आसमान से ऊँचे ख्वाब बुनते हैं...

और रात के तारे भी गिनते हैं.

धूप की तपिश में तो जलते हैं...

पहली बारिश में भी भीगते हैं.

ज़िन्दगी मिलती है सभी को...

मगर जिंदा कुछ रहते हैं ! 

जिओ ज़िन्दगी... मेरी तरह ! :) 

सजदा

ऐ खुदा मुझे भी नवाज़ दे कुछ ऐसी अर्श-ए-बंदगी,

जो ज़िन्दगी को ख्वाब दे और ख़्वाबों को ज़िन्दगी|

क्यूँ पलकें मूँद कर चाहते हैं हम नयी दुनिया यहाँ?

बुझती कहाँ हैं अश्कों से भी आँखों की ये तिशनगी|

जो तू रहता है हर ज़र्रे में और हर सांस है रहमत तेरी,

किस फलसफे में उलझे हैं हम, है नाम जिसका ज़िन्दगी?

दे नियाज़ वो के बन्दे तेरे अपने मसीहा खुद बने,

वो चिराग ही रौशन हुए जिनमे तेरी है लौ जगी|

शिकायत ...

किसी ने सोच कर ही कुछ ये इनका नाम रखा है,
तनहा खामोश रातों में घडी के 'कांटे' चुभते हैं !

अजब फितरत है ये कमबख्त किस्मत से उलझने की,
कुछ ऐसे फूल हैं जो आदतन पथ्हर पे खिलते हैं !

राहों में धूप, बारिश , मील के पथ्हर ही यार मिले,
जहां से हम मुड़े शायद वहां ही हमसफ़र मिलते हैं !

कलम भी श्याही पी कर आजकल ज्यादा बहकती है,
जानती नहीं अब कागज़ पे बस लैला-मजनू बिकते हैं !

Happy Friendship Day !

2nd August 2009
Its friendship day today and I have just returned after meeting some of my college time pals in Pune. I believe that we do not need any special day to celebrate things like friendship, love, motherhood and many such ‘Days’ , but it has one advantage, it makes you think about the significance of some of the best part of your lives and friendship is definitely one of them ! So here is something that I feel about this wonderful relationship:
Friendship
There are some relations that we hold by virtue of our birth and we accept and obey them for what they are, and then there are relations which we nurture and cherish by virtue of our choice; friendship being the most beautiful among them.
It is very difficult to define and reason friendship. Be it a kindergarten going kid or an 80 year old gentleman – they both make friends. Be it a bushman from Kalahari Desert or a corporate honcho from the Wall Street – they both yearn for a true friend. Such is the magic of this bonding that it cuts across the differences of ages, sex, geographies etc.
According to me, a friendship result from the synchronization of one’s thinking with someone else’s. It’s a gesture to appreciate each other’s attitude, outlook and persona. But then, the kindergarten kid fails me :) , had any of us thought or even knew the above things when we made our first friend in those prayer queues, or playgrounds? I guess no.
Irrespective of how we perceive friendship, it has a major influence in our lives. We make friends in schools, colleges, work places and then this set of friends keeps evolving. However, at each juncture of our life, we are influenced by the thoughts, actions, behavior, mannerism and in fact the whole way of living of our friends. In the journey we share some immortal moments like the gully cricket fights, bunked schools, mark sheet secrets, crushes, love stories, late night chats, gossips, coffee corners... If life is a journey, friends are the interesting co-passengers who add to the spice! Life is so incomplete without them.
I personally have been blessed with ample of this goodie. I have had many great friends right from my school, college and working days. I have grown with them learning the nuances of life. Unknowingly, I have learnt things that should be done (and also some that should never be) in life. I have shared some of the best, and some worst moments of my lives with someone by my side who I can fall back on. I feel enriched by them and I feel that some part of each of them lives with me, let’s say when I listen to a song, and suddenly recall – Hey! I used to hum it along my way to school along with a friend.
Well, a lot to say but then I need to sleep now …but would like to say a big THANKS to all of my dear buddies! Life’s been a pleasure with you! Happy Friendship Day :)

We are all like a beach !

This is one of my writings from the past that I've loved. Posting again:

We are all like a beach.-

I was sitting alone on a beach today, facing the sea breeze when this thought came to my mind - we are all like a beach!

There are small grains of individual traits, like of sand, which put together make my personality. Grains of behavior, attitude, thought, reactions, dreams etc. I never realized that I am what I am - because of these grains. A grain in itself seems too small today, but years ago it was a part of a rock! Or may be a mountain! It’s only the weathering of time that has separated it from its original shape. My composition is not menial - I posses ingredients of gigantic mountains, though in their minimal form.

The outer world is the sea. Relentless waves from the sea hit the beach- right from the day when it was a rock beach. The constant challenge of the waves, reduced the rock beach into a more vulnerable one - composed of sand. The vagary does not end here! Even today each wave is taking some part of the beach away with it. The beach, however doesn’t seems to change much - as it seems just a few grains poorer.

The transformation of the beach from a rocky terrain to the friendly sands draws new guests. People get attracted to the beach. Hundreds of them visit me. Finding the sand flexible enough, they try to shape up their dreams on me. Some enrich me by making beautiful temples, some make castles. A few curious ones dig me for the shells; little do they know that I once nurtured a life inside each of these shells. They play for a while, enjoy spending their time here, looking at the sea - my way and enjoying the breeze I have been facing for years. Once the entertainment is done, they leave me at their own will. Leaving behind the remnants of things they built on me - temples, castles, names, faces and what not.

I heard somebody once commenting on me - “How resilient the beach must be to face the waves all day and night!". No wonder he was among the ones who loved making temples on me. Had he been a curious digger, he would have found out - I am already taken over by the sea!

I may appear to be the beach facing the waves, but the water has managed to seep into me deep down. I am no longer what I used to be, I have lost my grains for the drops of water. The sea is gradually taking me over from inside. A day will come when a big enough wave will come and wash away my entire existence from the scene. The sea will get bigger!

But I am not sad, I can already see the huge rocks lying behind me- and trust me it will take ages for the sea to make it into sand grains and sweep away!