Life in a mess...

Life is way too much more than what we think it is. Its length and breadth just seem to efface as we try to subsume it as far as we can, yet in vain. Now one would be wondering why suddenly I am being mentally shrewd about the aspects of what seems to be as simple as one’s life. But yes, that would be the most fatuous thought one would come across to say life is simple, but in fact it is not.

Here is the reason. Few days back, one of my friends gave me a movie (won’t tell its name, else you won’t watch it with required keenness once told) that was about high school reunion. The characters, that seem to be smug about their own lives, when had this opportunity of contemplating the way they live, then they realized what void they had, which they condoned till now. As the story unfolded, each character lamented over their intricacies of life.

One man, who was about to propose her girl and had no contact with her ex-girlfriend for over eight years, met with her in a completely awkward situation, found her to be married, yet complicatedly. Another one, who found his long lost crush of school time, tried every way to flirt and impress her one last time, gets away with the news that she is divorced (not really) and is living with her babies. Yet another man, who happens to be a successful musician, found the girl he had secretly admired and noticed the face in the crowd his whole school days, sings his most popular song at the event. The girl came to realize the song was about her, and ironically, she never heard of it before. (By now you must have guessed the movie, if you have watched or heard about it…but the realization is not in the name, it’s in the message).

This whole convoluted story ends with all the characters knowing what they lacked in their life and fulfill it in their own ways. All happy endings. However it gave a strong message that sometimes life would be a total mess, sometimes you have to toil hard to get things straight, to make things fall in place, but if you take life frivolously, life would be a bigger mess than ever. And you don’t have to do big things for that. Small things in life matter more than doing things you think to be big and life-changing. So go out, help others, make someone smile, work hard, party harder, build up and most importantly maintain relationships, care about friends and family as life is not all about doing things in the flow, but it is about how you direct the flow with doing things your way. :)

आज फिर मुस्कुराने को दिल करता है

ज़िन्दगी की भागा दौड़ी से भाग जाने को दिल करता है
आज फिर मुस्कुराने को दिल करता है 

दिल के अरमां हैं झिलमिल से
कभी पूरे तो कभी अधूरे रह जाते हैं
पर हर अरमां को हकीक़त में बदलने को दिल करता है
आज फिर मुस्कुराने को दिल करता है 

कल किसने देखा, जीना है तो जियो आज
ज़िन्दगी के दो पलों में, छेड़ो मस्ती का कोई साज़
इस साज़ को गुनगुनाने को दिल करता है
आज फिर मुस्कुराने को दिल करता है 

यारी दोस्ती से बढ़कर है यारों का साथ
बेपरवाह, बेफिक्र, युहीं कट जाएं दिन और रात
इन्हीं यारों की यारी निभाने को दिल करता है
आज फिर मुस्कुराने को दिल करता है 

ज़िन्दगी से कुछ पल चुराकर, इन पलों में ज़िन्दगी जीना
मस्ताना मौसम, हसीं वादियां, और तान के अपना सीना
युहीं कारवां रोशन करने को दिल करता है
आज फिर मुस्कुराने को दिल करता है