"Bachpan"

Palak jhapakte dekho
kese waqt palat ye jata hai....
mere bachpan ka mere aaj se ik tuta tuta naata hai.

girte padte jab bachpan me ghutne tuta karte the....
sar par ghar uthakar hum zor zor se rote the.
par ghutno ka wo dard bda kam nazar ab ata h...
jab dil tute ya sapna koi tut mera jata hai.

kaisi ajab ye zindagi hai..
socho to man muskata hai...
jab dard na tha to aansu mere sath bada nibhate...
ab dard me hain hum to ik aansu bhi ruswa kar jata hai.

bas phulo se the rishte naate....
kaanto se hum darte the.
apne ghar ki phulwari ki badi hifazat karte the
bade hue to bat smjh me ab ja kar k aayi hai ki
phulo ke chubhne ka dard kanto se zada satata hai.

itni bate thi karne ko...
par shabd bade kam aate the.
ab shabd sare sikh liye jab...
samajh wo hi nahin pate hain...
jo kehte the tera tutlana bhi samajh me humko ata hai....

choti si thi mutthi fir bhi kitna kch ajata tha....
ab bade ho gaye hath to pakad me kuch ni ata hai....

Palak jhapakte dekho
kese waqt palat ye jata hai....
mere bachpan ka mere aaj se ik tuta tuta naata hai.

-Aayushi Kapoor

Life is a resonance of extremes

Life is a resonance of extremes

A continuous low note or a higher one can create sound but not music, because music can only be created by resonance of extreme notes...music is bliss..a reinforced frequency produced by overlapping of different sound frequencies....ans so is life.

The psycho-social equilibrium, that we commonly call as life, can only be attained by successful overlapping of its different frequencies, which are happiness, sorrow, joy, pain, loneliness, togetherness, ups and downs, thick and thin....if we stick to any one of the above frequencies, high or low, life loses its meaning. There has to be a constructive overlapping of different emotions, different reactions, different thoughts, different ideas to compose the music of life.

No person has ever born on this earth who hasn't faced any adversities of life. Each one of us have felt one or the other pain. people have seen separation from their loved ones, greatest reason being death. people have seen hunger, poverty. There are orphans. there are people without homes, unemployed, penniless. But even than life has so much for them too. even the beggars smile. they don't have homes, but they light diyas on footpaths on Diwali.They have seen every star break in night sky, but they don't make wishes,may be they've left them for us.  They know the taste of the most miraculous liquid on this earth, that is water. They know the warmth of a torn blanket on a cold winter night. They have felt the ecstasy of the morning dew, they know how to catch rainbows. And as long as they know this, life will continue to propagate because a perfect resonance has occurred between all the high and low notes. 

The most beautiful music is hence produced.............

'BRAND' BAAJA BARAT....

'BRAND' BAAJA BARAT

We , today, are in the era where "NIKE' is more relied upon than the feet to run and "CRIZAL" more than the eyes for vision. "AMUL" has taken over nani's hand churned butter and "CADBURY" is more in demand than Kaju Katli. Not just these, but even water is branded, people want the one advertised by Hema Malini. Brands have not even spared the air we breathe, even that is demanded "HITACHI".

Is this brand obsession just a result of demand of quality or is it an ostentatious phenomenon,serving as the genesis of inequality???

Ask yourself why you prefer a date at "STARBUCKS" and not at a normal, not branded, coffee shop. Is it the quality that drags you there or......???? May be quality, but you know the answer...

And since you know the answer, it requires great introspection, a reversal of thoughts and a change of pattern. Don't succumb to the hegemony of brand players rather make wise decisions that can make both of you happy- the pocket and you.

Brand obsession is a contagion; it's an epidemic which spreads at the speed of light and makes you so ill that you can't even imagine. It makes you a blind and the specious temptations advertised by these brands suddenly make you abandon "LEVIS" and fill your wardrobe with "ZARA". So, we see it keeps changing, therefore it's all the more clear that its not quality that pulls rather you choose the name better to exhibit in the hour and this oblivion makes you pay those extra pennies which are not a reward of just the quality, for sure.

Interestingly, this brand epidemic ends not just with goods, but even marriages, 'BRANDED MARRIAGES' and we are soon to witness the day when brides would get BRANDED GROOMS and vice-versa, may be with a tag of "RADO" or "GUCCI" or any other big name. Will you still choose the one better to flaunt about??????

Deepest Valley Lies Beside The Steepest Mountain

 Deepest Valley Lies Beside The Steepest Mountain  

William Henry Bill Gates, one of the most successful entrepreneur and philanthropist and the role model for every individual who aspires to become rich, was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and Albert Einstein with an extra chamber for intelligence in his brain , Sir Isaac Newton with  an inbuilt microprocessor , Thomas Edison with a god-gifted idea of light bulb, Sidney Poitier with an MOU signed by god to get the Oscar and Walt Disney with all the goodies of Disneyland.

If you think so, then you are absolutely wrong!!!!!!

Every successful man on this earth was once grappling with the whirlpool of frustration and failures. Even after passing out form Harvard, Bill Gates failed at his first business 'Traf-O-Data' but he didn't lose hope and sliding a long distance though the ups and downs ultimately succeeded in building the 'Microsoft' empire. Albert Einstein, the noble  prize winner, could not even speak until he was four and could not read until he was seven and was even expelled from school and refused admittance in polytechnic school. He still fought with the circumstances and his disabilities and ended up making his name synonymous with genius. Sir newton, whose laws of motion we and every object obeys, used to fail in maths in his early days and Edison failed literally a thousand times before he could lay the invention of the light bulb. Worse irony ran through the life of of Walt Disney, the master of imagination, as he was chucked out of a newspaper company on the grounds of 'lacking imagination and having no good idea'. Thereafter, he saw a series of failures back to back and even got bankrupted before he could actually discover the formula for success.

Similar tough terrains have been there and will be there for anyone who wishes to reach the zenith, and whether you will reach there or not is actually decided in that deep valley of failures. It somehow follows Darwin's 'selection principle' of survival of the fittest. If you manage to struggle and cope with those tough times you will definitely reach the pinnacle but if you get disheartened and you quit, then you may merrily raise the count of a huge number that comprises the people who didn't dare to take one, but "Last Step" and that is what made the difference.

It's always the last mile of a journey that takes the greatest courage and determination and none other than YOU can motivate yourself for that last step. So, never fear failure, rather keep patience and keep striving.

Remember the lower you get suppressed, the higher you rise, BUT ONLY IF YOU WANT.

ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE

ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE

What is the definition of human happiness?? To get rich?? To get successful?? To get someone??? But isn't this worldly happiness relative?? you get richer than you already are, or than anybody else, but once you reach that you want to more rich. many people have allowed money to ruin their lives.You want a big house, you get it, but once you get it you aspire for bigger. And imagine one of your relatives getting it before you. will you still be happy?? We all know the answer. So, all such pseudo-happiness measures that have been alluring people since ages are transitory and fade away in an instant when we compare our assets with others.

The only reason behind human sorrows is this desire for relative happiness. This has made even our emotions, like love, to become relative. Now you don't love someone but you love someone more than something else.Same is the case with trust, with respect and even with negative emotions like hatred and fear. We end up being discontented only because this is what we actually aspire for. With relative happiness we can never build a truly happy life.

But then what absolute happiness is???

It is when we desire not to get, but to give. Not to get immense bank deposits but wisdom. Not to get successful, but enlightened. One can get absolute happiness only when one ends the tradition of comparison, and learns to praise the work of others. We get into a conflict when we feel that what other person says is wrong, but if instead of being judgemental, we walk in a mile in his shoes and consider that he is right in his place if not mine, we may get many problems solved and be happy. To get happy, you need to first know yourself, your sorrows and your desires and then choose selectively which desire to be heeded and which one to be abandoned and only then you can achieve supreme joy, wisdom and compassion and a happiness which is perpetual and won't fade away with time or instances because it is the absolute happiness.