Your People

Remember who checks on you when you get a little quiet

Those are your people.

The First One

 After a very long time , I heard the song -

Tu Meri Jindagi Hai , Tu Meri Har Khushi hai
Tu hee pyaar , tu hee chahat, tu hee ashique hai

As the melody filled my heart , I was back in Bhandara ,the place of many firsts starting from first school to first friends to first best friends to first gang of friends , first idolation , first fascination , first crush , first heart break , the place where I first heard this song. There was a time when there were those who were an integral part of existance with hours of talks. But the time changed and as was foretold in LOTR 

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost.

The world of that time was a small world , that we had created . A world which for a long time remained untouched from whatever happened outside . There was a silent hope that this world will remain untouched. 

And then we stepped out , byes were exchanged and promises made to meet in the evening . Promises were kept on Day 1 , next day the plan was to meet over the weekend and as the promises accumulated , we never realized that the last cricket match was the last one we ever played together

Success

Lost !!

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart. ~Bruce Coville 

Book: Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

When I was a little Kid , I saw a fantastic performing dog act. This golden retriever did all these astonishingly clever tricks . When I saw what potential dogs possess , how smart they can be, I wondered why they are mostly happy to be doing dumb dog tricks. Life gave me the answer "Dogs have talent but no ambition"

Free Will

The righteous anger always leads to an all but irresistible compulsion to act regardless of the risks, and not merely a compulsion to act, but to do the right thing. We can exercise free will and turn away – but only at a cost in self-respect

Happily Ever After

Life is never a happily ever after. You feel happily ever after started but the very next day next day starts and it is back to square one

Eulogy to KK

 When KK passed away , I was sitting listening to a review in which I was not getting reviewed . As messages came popping on groups and with nothing much better to do , i wrote a quick eulogy with plans to put on FB and then forget. While going through my old notes found that again -

Once when world goes bleak , the expecto patronum takes back to the time & age when I first heard Yaaron , the time when friendship ( & marks ) powered everything . And with KK gone , the voice that once had redefined friendship is also gone. Thanks KK for redefining friendship when we could have turned either way , your songs came at a time when we were entering the corporate world and something was truly needed to reaffirm the faith on old traditions of friendship & camarderie .