Time Please!!!

Hi friends…

The D-Day has come… Its time to bid adieu to my little kingdom… Tomorrow is indeed a day which would go down to the annals of history… as tomorrow marks the end of the realm of the princess in my home sweet home.

On the eve of my adios to Mumbai for the next couple of years, I felt like sharing this little poem with you all… It is a modified version of a very long anecdote I’d written on the last day of my graduation for my friends.

Read on…

AE PAL ZARAA TEHAR JAA..

Chan palo ke mehmaan hai hum is shehar mein
Ae waqt tu ruk kyu nahi jaata?
Kitni baatein, kitne armaan baaki hai is dil mein
Kya kya kahe kuch samajh nahi aata...

Kab socha tha maine ki aisa bhi din aayegaa
Jab bichadte hue dil choor choor ho jaayega
Yaha bitaaya har ek lamha yaad aayega
Aur mere dil ko aur bhi rulaayega.

Zindagi naam hai aage badhne ka
Toh fir kyu chod jaate hai hum itni yaadein?
Kya hai kasoor mera ya mere doston ka?
Ab kisse kahenge dil ki saari baatein?

Shaayad fir milne ka mauka mile na mile...
Par milne ka waada zaroor karna
Chalte rahenge zindagi ke silsile
Shaadi karna, invite karna….warna!

Kaafi yaadein sametli maine
Ab kehna chahti hu main kuch...
Pyaar hai mujhe tum sabhi se
“I’ll miss u all” sachmuch!

Pata hai ki dil dukhaaya hai tumhara...
Naadan the hum...Kasoor tha hamara
Fir bhi gujaarish hai ki kar dena maaf
As rightly said, “Forget and laugh”……….

---Ships

RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE...

Look, how time flies away! In leisure time, when I sit back and reminisce about the upshots in my life, I marvel at the fact that I’ve raned into so many changes. One question leads to another and leaves my head walloping with the same question again… “Should vicissitude in one’s life be embraced without anxiety?”

Not one, nor two… but it has been twenty-two long years since I stepped onto this world where sweet, cunning, rude, helpful… all kinds of people stay in unison, the world where truth and falsehood go hand in hand… (OOOOPs did I just commit the severest sin a girl could ever commit… i.e. didn’t I just blurt out my age!?? Hehe…) Well, it seems as if only a while ago I was inside my mom trying to figure out how the outside world would be like, concentrating on the various unknown sounds outside that excited me. I was pretty anxious to know what was going around.

Days went by… and then came the day when I inscribed my presence on earth, the day when I intervened into the chaos of a whole new world; everything seemed so strange; the world full of unfamiliar faces. I was so panicked that I couldn’t resist crying aloud! It was only when I felt my mom’s gentle touch, something which was so soothing that I finally stopped crying. That was the very first time that my mom hugged me and I bet one wouldn’t find such comfort even on the seventh heaven! Since that very moment, she has been my mentor, she’s the one who has guided me meticulously through thick and thin, and made me what I am today. My dad was the next person on earth, whom I felt so close to, in this whole new world. The very first time I said “Ma”, their joy knew no bound!
They taught me to walk… I learnt to run! (Literally and figuratively ;))
They taught me words… I learnt to speak! (I bet it’s difficult… or should I be veracious enough to say… It’s indeed impossible to find another blabby like me!)
In every action of theirs’, there was a new lesson for me.

The first day in school was as petrifying as the very first day of my very existence! But again I had my powerful shield - my parents who eased all my fears, assuaged my trepidation, and guided my way towards the school gate. I still remember my dad saying, “All the best, Dear! You’re a lovely girl. You ought to love school. You’ll get many new friends whom you’ll be more close to.” And he was so right when he said that! That was the day when friends entered my life. Yes, that was altogether a new phase of my life. A good student emerged out of a mischievous kid!

School, friends, teachers, books…. Oh! That age was so carefree! Teachers guiding you, friends helping you, parents running after you! That of course was the age where fun and fear always went together. Mischief and scolding were common! School years were wonderful! It brought so many changes in me. A naughty little kiddie metamorphosed into a sweet little girlie. Then came the farewell day, when I bid my last adieu to my alma mater. The very thought of leaving my good old friends, and entering a new environment horrified me.

But again, my wildest fears were proven wrong. Junior College was fabulous! It was a different life altogether. With lot of restrictions being lifted, I felt like a free bird! That was the phase which saw me transforming from girl to a well-behaved(?) young lady. It taught to me to treasure friendship and the various bonds of life. With the board exams approaching, we learned to value time. But these two years went by so fast that even before I could completely comprehend what it was like; it was all over!

Then I entered my graduation years. Another set of friends… Friends - whom I’d remember for my entire life time. Even these four years went by just like a blink of an eye…

But life continues… ambitions spring… I entered another phase of my life.
My first job, my first colleagues, another arena of my life, wonderful friends… Nine months of fun and frolic… I know I wouldn’t get such a carefree work environment again. But as is said, yeh dil maange more…

Will leave for my management studies this month end… Waiting to meet another bunch of friends, seniors, teachers, rivals…

So many things have changed in the past years but a few things always remain the same, like my mom’s sweet scolding and my dad’s playfulness!

Every time I’ve entered a new phase of my life, I felt like the new born baby anxious to know more but afraid of the consequences. But isn’t this what life is all about? “CHANGES” - Yes, life and changes go hand in hand, and we ought to welcome them with a smile. Like it’s clichéd, change is the only thing constant in life.

You can’t stay with the past forever, how-so-ever beautiful it may be! One must always look forward and try his/her best to conquer all which is yet to come just as Robert Frost says---

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep;
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”

- Ships.

IN WANT OF A BETTER TOMORROW…

Just had a heated discourse with a friend of mine… (Note: As per my definition, a discourse also includes emotional black-mailing, and anything that's needed to be on the winning end!! hehe...) Wondering what the topic was? Read on…


He: Sorry dear, I can’t make it to the trip this weekend.
Me: O c’mon… You sure can.
He: You know my reasons for not coming right. This exam is an important one. It can make or break my future.
Me: So, you think, sacrificing such an eventful day will help you? Do you want to regret later that you could’ve fared equally well, even if you had gone for that outing?
He: No... It ain’t that way! I don’t wanna regret later that… Wish I had put in a little more effort and fared better…

And the conversation went on and on…. Till of course, my bro screamed… “Dids, dinner is ready… Tandoori chicken waiting for you!” (You see, I had to mention that! I can’t tell you in words the extent of my excitement at the delicious comeback of my dearie Chicken in my Kitchen... Phew... now that's a live example of mindless repetition.)

Well, coming back to the conversation… Putting it in a nutshell, it was about prioritizing things in life according to their importance…

Like most other things in life, here again, there are two schools of thought. One school of thought avers, plan your today, in want of a better tomorrow. The second says; live life day after day, each day, without worrying what’s in store for you tomorrow. Approach one is more like a "Get-Set-Go" attitude (Pre-plan, plan and execute... Phew... Don't pull your hair out! It is an engineer talking to you after all!)…. And approach two is simply a "Just Do It" type (Do I even need to explicate on this one!)… It’s solely upto us if we want to outflank the present for a riper tomorrow, or make the present as our life’s finest present.

As an embryo, you’ve seen your mom taking all possible precautions, to ensure you a red-carpet welcome into this wondrous world. As a kid, you’ve seen your parents saving their precious pounds and pennies to ascertain your future repleted with flamboyant colors. As a student, you’ve seen your friends and rivals burning midnight oil to stand out and be the cynosure for the next day. In work-life, you have learnt it from your co-workers to be acquainted with every possible stuff today for an undaunted prosperity in every walk of life hereafter… In other words, all vouch for a better tomorrow at the expense of travailing through their otherwise-could-be-idyllic present. You are so used to seeing people following the first school of thought, that even in your subconscious mind, you plan for your chatoyant tomorrow!

However, just like the crazy nut that I am, I love to differ and find myself going by the second school of thought. I understand that a well-set ‘plan’ is the basic building block for any successful endeavour... still I prefer most of the things in my life to be unplanned. I believe that if something has to happen it will happen. Good or Bad… But it’ll definitely happen.

As is said, if you stop and ask someone for directions, and they tell you "You can't miss it"... then be assured that you will!!! So, friends whenever in doubt or dilemma, don’t depend on what you have seen people around you doing since times immerorial… rather, just listen to what your heart says…

Life is too short a time to live...
Why bother in the intricacies?
Don’t ask for more, just give...
Your present all your fancies.

Couldn't think of any better lines at this hour! Will have to catch up with some lost sleep, so that I reach work on time tomorrow. OOPS... did I just plan for tomorrow?? $^&()%#^$

Any ways, cheers to our 'present'.
:D

-Ships