Free

In the middle of sea,
I was about to drown,
I was struggling,
to balance on a raft,
N then noticed me,
Someone from a boat,
Looked like he was my savior,
But He was a predator,
He saved me from the water,
But, was there anybody,
to save me from his wrath,
I was in the middle of the sea,
Free to drown,
But now I was in the prison,
Bound to live,
N now I was thinking,
How better it was to die freely,
Than to live with bounds,
One day,He came rushing to me,
With a sword,
I could not move,
I thought the time to be free had come,
A full swing,
it did hurt,
I did bleed,
but then i was free,
Free to fly,
Free to live..........

Other Side Appears Always Green

हर काम से ऊब होती है। एक न एक दिन होती है। सबको होती है। मुझे भी होती है। लगता है जहां हूं वहां क्यों हूं। जहां नहीं हूं वहां क्यों नहीं हो जाता हूं। यह काम अच्छा नहीं है। वह काम अच्छा है। उस काम वाले से मिलता हूं तो कहता है आपका काम बड़ा अच्छा है। ऊब से कंफ्यूज़ हो जाता हूं। लगता है टीवी नहीं अख़बार ठीक है। अख़बार कहता है टीवी ठीक है। अपने दफ्तर को भला बुरा दूसरे दफ्तर को ठीक समझने लगता हूं। दूसरे दफ्तर वाले से मिलने के बाद अपने दफ्तर को ठीक समझने लगता हूं। लगता है हर अच्छी चीज़ बुरी होती है और हर बुरी चीज़ अच्छी होती है। मैं ऊब रहा हूं। इन दोनों ही स्थितियों से। कुछ नया करना चाहता हूं। पिछले दिनों जो नया किया उन्हीं से ऊब गया हूं। फिर एक और बार ऊबने के लिए कुछ और नया क्यों करना चाहता हूं।

शर्मा जी पड़ोसी थे। ज़िंदगी भर एक ही मेज़ से क्लर्की करते रिटायर हो गए। रिटायरमेंट के दिनों तक पहुंचते पहुंचते उनकी मेज़ चमकने लगी थी। सागवान की लकड़ी संगमरमर लगने लगी थी। तीस साल एक ही कुर्सी और एक ही मेज़। बैठने की एक ही जगह। दफ्तर के काम की कोई प्रगति नहीं। सिर्फ दिन बीतने की प्रगति। पहले दिन से रिटायर होने के आखिरी दिन तक पहुंचने की प्रगति। शर्मा जी ने कभी नहीं कहा कि ऊब गया हूं। हर दिन दफ्तर जाते रहे। कभी नहीं कहा कि दूसरे दफ्तर में क्यों हूं। पर दावे के साथ नहीं कह सकता कि शर्मा जी ऊब से बेचैन नहीं होंगे। एक ही करवट बैठे बैठे और हर सर्दी में पत्नी का बुना नया स्वेटर पहनते हुए वह अपनी ऊब किससे कहते होंगे पता नहीं। ऐसे तमाम लोगों पर शोध होना चाहिए। वो एक ही तनख्वाह, एक ही दफ्तर और एक ही दिशा में बैठे बैठे ऊबते क्यों नहीं हैं। हम क्यों ऊब जाते हैं। मैं क्यों ऊब जाता हूं।

Are They Yours ?

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends with you ,his might that his arrows might go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so he loves also the bow that is stable.

"The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran "

Negative side of Positive thinking

This is a article appeared in the Times of India (Ascent section) and i found it
Pretty interesting and wanted to share.

Thoughts are neither negative nor positive. Thoughts just are. What they turn out to be depends on the context. Given a context, thoughts can be realistic or unrealistic; mean or generous; selfish or selfless. Many chronic positive thinkers insist that the glass is half full — do they still remain positive when the glass is half full of polluted water? A positive thinking fellow is like someone who decides that it is more honorable to fall down from the Eiffel Tower rather than from a ten-storied building! It doesn’t matter where you fall from, the consequence will be disastrous. In reality, no positive thought can rise without a negative thought hiding around it. They are like the two poles of a magnet. For instance, if I ask you not to think of Mallika Sherawat for the next one minute — you will invariably think of her. Just try it! Positive thinking can turn negative very quickly. Why? Because they originate in the same source. They are interconnected like marigold and manure. It takes a blooming marigold just a few days to become manure. Similarly, manure becomes a flower in the course of time. Marigold and manure are two expressions of one shared identity. Negative thinking comes from the same-shared space as positive thinking. I am not endorsing negative thinking. I am simply saying, thoughts become positive or negative depending on you. It is you who sets the standards and values by which you evaluate thoughts. A lot of people talk about falling standards of every thing: food, music, newspapers, movies, the young generation or whatever. Actually standards have neither fallen nor risen. Standards have just shifted; your value frames have changed. This can be even seen in the cricket field, when a captain gives the ball to the bowler and sets a full offside field so that he can save the runs and slow down the run rate. While on his way back to long run-up the bowlers does not think about bowling on the off side but he thinks that he can not stray on the leg side and if he does that he will concede the runs.