क्या नयी ये जिंदगी है...Me at my romantic best :-)

Life is the best teacher and also the best appraiser.I had jotted down this prose some 3 years back for Priyanka, not 'coz I wanted to but 'coz I simply could not help it.The words just poured onto a rough piece of paper.Luckily,even she liked the poem and preserved it for all these years.My other side,which is very much unlike me.Very different.Very uncharacteristic.

क्या नयी ये जिंदगी है,या महज एक एहसास है।
दूर रहा मैं जिन भावों से,आज ह्रदय में उनका वास है॥
क्या नयी ये.....

दूर-दूर ही रहता था मैं,जिन अचिन्हे सपनो से।
उन्मुक्त विचरता था जग में दम्भित,ना सरोकार था बंधनों से॥
फिर आज ह्रदय का रोम-रोम क्यों,
बन गया किसी का यूँ दास है॥
क्या नयी ये.....

खनक हँसी की जिसकी मेरे,उर में घुल घुल जाती है।
अधरों से हँसते होंगे देव,वो आँखों से मुस्काती है॥
जिसकी बोली हर बात क्यों जाने,
मेरी सबसे प्यारी याद है॥
क्या नयी ये.....

कभी मासूम,कभी चंचल कभी,बातों-बातों में शर्माती है।
तो कभी धीर निर्भय स्वरूप से,मुझको विस्मित कर जाती है॥
बनकर जीवन में बयार आई थी,
पर आज बन गई मेरी श्वांस है॥
क्या नयी ये .....

Entropic Surfing !!!

Random surfing has its own merits.I mean I am still not aware of them all but then do have a gentle feeler that sometimes waywardness helps me to justifiably align my thought process.As in this case I was just strolling entropically on-net and then landed onto this website,eventually finding myself reading through quotes.Just posting a few of them.Again Random !!! No relation with anybody living or dead !!!;-)

"But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head . . . The harvest has dwindled, and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on." (Robert Finch)

"You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose." (Jo Coudert)

"The best and most beautiful things in the world can not be seen or ever touched, they must be felt with the heart. We should do everything within reason to save a good relationship. But if we are constantly trying to save it, it's probably not a good relationship." (Javan)

A mixed weekend !!!

Not sure if this is something that every individual experiences at one junction or the other but I have always felt that with me, unpredictability renders the best kick. Dunno' but every time I exhaustively and insightfullly plan something, I am left with blues. Probably it happens 'coz the kind of person I am, I expect justifiable ROI from even time-resource. Time that has gone into planning and the time that has gone into implementation.

Now this weekend I had a 3 days off (adv of being a banker) and thus planned to at least endeavor in some way as to entertain my so very reasonably patient wife. But then there chipped in a factor of a marriage to be attended. I redefined my idea of entertaining her by deciding to taking her along. This was a part of my two pronged strategy; one entertaining her through our typical baraati-shows and secondly, getting her introduced to my set of friends.

The whole strategy went in shambles when she was really not amused with this baaraat that actually started at 0100 Hrs (1 AM i.e.), more so when we had to drive for 3 hrs to reach this place. And then on the interaction bit, I really wasn’t expecting much of communication from a hoarde of some 20+ fultoo spirited souls :-) For 3 hours Priyanka and I were sitting all by ourselves in the lawns waiting for either baaraat to begin or the daaru-party to get over. None happened before the wee hours.:-)

No remorse. The best part of the whole schedule was the visit to this nice 'structure' called Akshardham in Delhi. I called it a structure because it indeed was one. Its a lovely place with great spawn and architecture. Aesthetically delightful. Just that my still alive inquisitive self could not comprehend as in if maybe a free institution or school would have had been a better idea. Not sure. May be. Totally the prerogative and call of the Mission people but then I just felt that the same space could have had educated a whole generation of Delhi. Just a thought!

Anyways,the best thing about the temple was that it reminded me of my childhood days when I used to read all the KALYANS I could get hold of and watch as many mythological movies. I doubt if my children would ever want to proactively know about Nachiketa, Dhruv, Charak, Aryabhatta, Brahmagupta and likes. Or probably I am sensitized now. Lets take atleast the education home.:-)

For the time being, looking forward to the next weekend which again is clubbed with a Friday off. :-) Great life…