You with me

Just hold my hands for a while,

Just hug me once for life,

Enough for me that is,

To carry you with me for life.

YOU and just YOU

When the night is silent,

And no one by my side to heed,

I am all reminded of you…

When my days are rough,

And needy I am of a shoulder,

I am all reminded of you…

When you are near,

There is nothing I fear,

Nothing can ever be like you…

You and just you.

The heart, a bird

My heart feels like a bird, not because it can fly distances in seconds but because it wants itself to be caged. Irony is, no bird wants to be caged!

Many a time in life we wish for things that are not meant for us. Our heart wishes for things that give immense joy to it but still knows it’s beyond reach, next to impossible and sometimes it does not even have the courage to accomplish them. But it never wants to let go of that wish what so ever. It just knows that it can derive pleasure from them and can keep it happy. We all would have experienced this at least once in our life. None of us can deny it. Some of us would have wanted an expensive toy that our parents couldn’t have afforded, the thought of possessing the toy gave you joy. You wished it would be yours, although you knew, it would never happen. Some of us wanted a gal or a guy in our life, just their thoughts filled your life with ecstasy, but did not have the guts to approach him or her merely because of the fear of being turned down or say you knew it would obviously be a ‘NO’. You wished he/she would be yours, although you knew, it would never happen. You wanted to pursue your higher studies and get to a position that you wished to see yourself in, but no, you cannot. You have a family to feed, you have your responsibilities, and with all these you would never manage! Another NO, but your heart still pushes you to pursue it’s wish, but in vain!

And there will be yet another day when your old heart wishes for something new but is forbidden from getting it. But somewhere deep within you, a voice keeps warning you every time to keep yourself away from such thoughts for the reason that you will never get them and you just get hurt. Some of us push that voice aside, and have that nerve to go ahead and at least try a little because we crave for it. However, the rest of us who have been cowards till now, who did not have the audacity to show yourself up, I’m sure we did not get even things that were our cup of tea.

For those of you who have never let your heart fly: Your heart is still waiting to take that flight even though it’s not caged. Let your heart fly, let it try its best. Even if it cannot fly high, it will take more time to touch the ground. Live life your way, do not instigate restrictions. Enjoy life to fullest!

Lessons from Life

There was a child sitting in front of me on his mother’s lap. Looking at his mother one could tell that she strived really hard for her survival, but she’d dressed up her son without any of those signs. Even though she had nothing to protect her bare foot from the stones on her path, her son was wearing a floater pair. This is what I noticed about the mother-son duo seated in front of me, when I was woken up by the loud commotion on the bus that I was traveling to office on a Friday morning.

The little bean ‘d sharp facial features, cheerful like other kids of his age would be. He was gleefully clapping looking at the scenes outside the window unlike his mother who was worrying about various things that could happen, would happen and so on (though I couldn’t tell clearly from her expressionless face, but although I could see that her only source of happiness was her son).

The bus moved from stop to stop at snail’s pace. No sign of me reaching my destination for another thirty minutes. There is another stop and I see a lot of people getting into the bus. And this one particular lady makes her way through the crowd and stands beside the mother-son duo. There was a weird thing hanging out of her bag and after taking several looks at it, I realized it was a key chain hanging. (I do not know why people fancy key chains hanging from their bags! I just really hate it. Sometimes I see a dozens of them hanging from the same zip, sometimes a jingly one! OMG!).The kid started playing with this chain that was hanging like a long earring on a girl (pardon me, but that is the first thought that occurs to me whenever I see key chains hanging that way and I am not stereotyping anyone and a small note for all girls: you need not wear such long earrings to impress anyone, they really do not look good. No offence to guys who love them!) And when the owner of the earring (I mean key-chain) saw this she got irritated and gave the kid a dirty look but the kid was not deterred, he continued his work until some realization dawned on him. He suddenly folded his hands and loudly said “MAAMI”, a few times. Then I took a closer look at the key chain, it was Lord Subramanya on it. The kid ‘d realized this and the MAAMI was his version of SWAMI.A girl next to me started smiling at this act of the kid. Even I could not stop smiling at this marvelous bean! The owner’s expression too changed and it transformed from a dirty look to admiring one. The mother-duo pair got down in the next stop, but the their thoughts filled the empty space of my head and kept me occupied the entire day.

Why cannot we all have the same mind as that mother who knows to sacrifice everything for her son? Why cannot we smile and be cheerful always like that kid? Why do we miss observing our surrounding that is so obvious to us? Why do we frown or look down on people who want to work and discourage them? Why do not we pursue doing what we want in life? Why don not we show those people who discourage us, that we are capable of doing what we want? Why do we give up easily??

Some people come into your life to teach you something that you will need in life. This mother-son duo was one of that kind in my life. Though they were there for just a few minutes, they have left me with questions that will take me a lifetime to answer.

He is my HERO!

I fight with him over petty things,

He gives up and says he wants me to win.

I keep arguing over small issues,

He suggests me the right way and closes it saying he loves me more than anyone else does.

He is the proudest when I take a lead,

He is the weakest when sees me in tears!

He is been with me through all ups and downs,

Guided me as he wants his little gal to be the best!

Love you dad for how you are,

Thanks for being with me whenever i needed yo!

Thanks a ton dad! :)