All those little things..!

Do yourself a favor,

with a few little things.

Collect a little flavor,

That'll never cost you shillings.

Giggle away with your best mates,

Run out of those closed gates,

Give yourself that fresh air,

That swing, that shower, and that relaxing chair.

Do yourself a favor,

And sit down for a while.

Let your lips play the trick

and curve that joyful smile.

Look at those clouds and daydream.

Blush away with a bright beam.

Sing to yourself that happy song,

You always wanted to sing.

Stare at the moon on those lonely nights,

Humming those tunes of the retro.

Look down from those stunning heights,

Into lights of the gloomy metro.

Spread your hands to the rain,

Do that silly dance.

Open up with those groovy moves,

Like there's never a second chance.

Do yourself that favor,

with all those little things,

Grab every one of those little joys,

That life so luckily brings.

                                            

Angel

There's a rain that burns my skin,
There's a joke that tears me down,
There's a glue that shreds me to pieces,
A song of sarcasm that makes me frown. 




Where's that witch
who comes and goes,
Making fires out of my rose..
The one who comes with a haunting cape,
The dark shadow devoid of shape,
The one who wins every time,
Trapping me with no escape.


 

She puts me down every time,
Belittling me in my every step.
She lives inside me as my fears,
As my pain, pettiness and unforgiving tears. 





Bring me an angel who can show me light
Who wins over my darkness and pushes me to fight.
Who can fill my abyss with joy and hope,
Who gives me strength to counter and cope. 

 

Shower me with a rain that soothes my wounds,
Let me curve my lips with a charming smile.
Let me have my share of laughter and fun,
And let me feel that I'm the chosen one.


 

It's just not enough!

Let me start off with some excerpts from my memories...

I am on a holiday and I stand at the top of a cliff and look at the world beneath me through my spectacles with a deep admiration towards nature. The height is breathtaking, nature surprizes me, and my buddies agree with me, though with different expressions of exclamation. I look down again, and there you go-

“Wow!Awesome!”

Exams are on the run, and I sit long hours through the night, working on deadlines trying to figure out what those subjects really mean. I start with an understanding level at minimum, almost nil, and as I progress, I start getting the essence of it. Surprizingly, I wake for more hours and outdo my own plan. The best part is that I can't stop smiling when I actually shut my eyes to sleep, and I keep saying to myself- "You rock!!"

It's a saturday evening and the sun plays hide and seek with the clouds and diffuses a brilliant golden orange through the sky, making me feel it is the best sunset I have ever seen. I hurry to the kitchen and make myself a cup of hot coffee and samosas, and sit at my balcony, munching them. I spend a silent evening musing, watching the refreshing sunset in the breeze, and relaxing every bit of me. “Amazing! Solitude is bliss!”

It's midnight and the doorbell rings. I open the door to find my best friends standing there with a delicious birthday cake, shouting like maniacs in unison, “Happy birthdayyy!!!”

I start digging up for something I misplaced and I find some of my old photographs and greeting cards. I sit with them, watching them with continuous smiles and flowing nostalgia! It makes my day.

We find happiness in a lot of things we do, and a lot of things we experience. It may just take different forms- contentment, excitement, refreshment, joy, love, laughs or tickles!

But then, it's just not enough! More happiness we get, more of it we want. Many times, we fail to see what we have, just brooding over things that we don't. And thus we fail to be postive, to be open to recieve happiness and sorrow alike.

We cultivate hobbies and interests, and doing them keeps us happy, but a few years down the lane, priorities change, and we are strongly convinced that we won't find time for them anymore. We grow delusional, and start believing in others rather than ourselves. We try to find happiness in a lot of things, but we fail. Still, the constant hunt for happiness is still on!

There are hundreds of million-dollar questions for which we don't come up with answers. One of them being-

“What makes me really happy?”

The first step to being happy is asking ourselves this question. There may seem to be different answers at different times, and sometimes, no answers at all! The answer, most of the times, is doing something which we are exclusively good at. Something that makes us feel alive! Writing, singing, swimming, reading, painting, dancing.... The list grows. Most of the times, we are mechanical in routine and materialistic in lifestyle, which puts our true self to sleep mode!

Wake it up!- and you are happy!
When we do find our answers and are happy, we don't really know how long it lasts. We might find something today that is really charming, and by doing it, we are happy. But by tomorrow, it would have lost its charm and we might find it not very interesting, anyway. We then, by default, go in search of a new answer and it goes on- It's just not enough!

The festival of lights, and hopes....!!

              As I hear the bangs and booms of crackers around me, I feel happy and irritated at the same time... (which I'd thought was never possible).      It's Diwali...!!
             The very name sounds hope and newness..... enlightenment...!! I wonder if I really know what the festival actually means... Light, hope, cheer, joy, celebration, faith, love, belief, optimism, knowledge, wisdom, simplicity, happiness...... We light our houses and hearts with the illuminating love.... A festival to let go of all the year's grief, sorrow and hopelessness ....  It is the time we forget and forgive.... Start ourselves anew, afresh.... Bring ourselves and others, new hopes, and new inspirations.
            We wear smiles all through, share them and spread them. We look forward to new things, new people, renewing our relationships with the old ones.... We forget all our jealousies, misunderstandings, cold wars and hard feelings about our so-called relatives and friends and give them an all new hug of happiness....
" I still believe in you....!! I still believe in us...!!".
     The warm and loving hug that reflects our love, humanity and true selves. A hug that reflects our faith in future. We hold hands and enjoy the togetherness, oneness and affection.
      "Whatever we are, we are one!!"
      Lets celebrate.....
      Lets join hands for the new togetherness, new hopes and new future....!!
      Wish you all a happy, and cheerful festival full of hopes.....
       HAPPY DIWALI........