Sunday 26 October 2008

Walking

This is a poem I wrote in I think the last year at college.

Today I am because of what I did yesterday.
Tomorrow I will be because of what I do today.
Yesterday is past. Today is present. Tomorrow is future.
The world is your lab, go and experiment; you are your best tutor.
Keep walking! Keep walking!
Even if people around you are mocking.
Life gives you hurdles, only to overcome them.
Each time you get up after a fall, you are one step ahead.
Take a pause only when you deserve.
Not when YOU THINK you deserve.
Whenever you are down and feel you cant do it,
Just think of your mentor who has already done it.
Talk it out, don't keep it inside you.
Just look around and go to a person who is true.
He will be ready to listen if you speak up,
At the end I will say, never trust your luck.

Sunday 5 October 2008

Kidding

We know we all have a child still inside us.
Still I do not know why most make a fuss,
or try not to show,
what they think will raise brows;
The innocent God like child in them,
Just because they are now adult women and men.
Have you ever thought or imagined,
If everyone in their purest form wandered,
in this world that God created,
And brought down the boundaries which have depreciated,
the emotion called love, a little,
and where once flickered,
the torch of love and unity,
stand walls of height of infinity.
People knowingly moved towards,
what they knew would take them backwards.
No one can ever show their true face,
Because they never thought to trace,
the soul inside them,
but worked on knowing who is their friend..
Why dont people understand this,
the true friend of a man is,
no one else,
but he himself.
So try knowing yourself better,
dont think you are under any pressure,
to do what I say.
But once you do, you will realise of the way,
That I have just talked,
may definately be mocked,
By one and all,
and would lead to not your fall,
but help you connect with your inside,
better than all other methods you have tried.
Just because our soul is connected to the great lord,
And they say, children are faces of no one else, but the same; God.

Scoring

Just when I closed my eyes,
I thought of how many times have I tried,
To know someone others know by my name,
Someone who in June 1987 came.
And was born in the Bombay city,
whom everyone call Aroon Sahani.
Do I know myself; the whole entity in me?
Why is it that when I am free,
I think of just people who are my close ones,
wishing their life has nothing but fun.
And in the process forgetting,
of even to think of spending,
Money, time or such precious entities on myself only,
So much so that even in peace it seems like a calamity.
But then I am provoked to think,
Was this just a thought that came for a blink,
And I let it stay for the time it did not deserve,
Making everything seem to get onto my nerves.
Probably my love for myself it was,
That brought these thoughts to a pause.
And reminded me of the wonderful being,
who is so always keen,
To help others out of a situation,
They seem to be uncomfortable in.
Hence satisfying my inner soul,
And that is what I think people call the ultimate goal.

Saturday 4 October 2008

Deciding

Sometimes in life you want things to rhyme. But then everyday is not a Sunday; unless you make each day one.
But then, views, thoughts, opinions may not be written in a poetic form even on SUNDAYS.
It is so weird, this urge to write starts at night.
Wow!! That was rhyming.
Once a person told me, when we start on path 'A' which we think leads to your goal, and due to some reason, you have to choose path 'B', you become a little apprehensive since you are not sure or think this path wont lead to your goal. But then, it is like saying one can reach from Delhi to Bombay only if you move along Rajasthan and Gujarat; not via UP and MP.
All roads lead to success. Some are longer, some are shorter. It is you who makes the choice.
Something I learnt, would like to share here. Always take your decisions yourself. Avoid taking advice. Because as I read day before yesterday in 'Mumbai Mirror', 'Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we did not'.
The opinions people voice in their advice is something or includes points which we have already thought of. So instead, what we could do is , try and sit down with a blank or unbiased mind and write the pros and cons. Weigh them. And take the decisions by oneself.
Two very big advantages of doing the same; you cant blame anyone else but yourself for your success or failure. Secondly, I think it is a very good method to increase your self-confidence.