Saturday, April 16, 2011

Passion

The quotes about passion..


I dont know how passionate I am about my few dreams.. but  I really doubt that does it really matters to be passionate or have dreams ?? coz many a times your dreams and passion depends on others than us.




well all said and done...


I' ve learnt and experienced this in Life..


“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead."


Preeti

Sunday, April 10, 2011

NO PROBLEM LASTS FOREVER!!


No problem lasts forever. No matter how permanently fixed in the center of our lives it may seem, whatever we experience in this ever-changing life is sure to pass. Even pain.

Difficult situations often bring out qualities in us that otherwise might not have risen to the surface, such as courage, faith, and our need for one another. All of our experiences can help us to grow.

But we may need patience. Some wounds cannot be healed quickly. They must be given time. In the meantime, we can appreciate the new capabilities we are developing, such as the capacity to mourn and the willingness to accept. Let us share our losses and triumphs with each other, for that is how we gather courage.

(From Courage to Change: One Day at A Time in Al-Anon II, page 77).

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Bachpan


“There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.” but still the memories of childhood can never fade..

My first blog is about my childhood...


My Childhood, the best time of my life till now. It has given me a lot and has taught me alot. Today when I see my niece and nephew being fed by my bhabhi's , I miss the time when my mamma use to feed me, use to give me a lovely bath, sleeping on her lap, playing with her, going to the market with my papaji, asking him stupid questions. Watching Tom and Jerry, I dream of jini, small wonders, uncle donald, and too much cartoons. Love to play outside, cycling and fighting with other children, crying on scratched knees, crying for those colored water candies, buddhi ke baal, those road side pani puri, bhajjis  ... It was just a big amazing time, free from all the hectic worries of the world, no tension to earn money, no tension of relationship, just me and my world. My lovely parents , whom I can insist for anything in the world, even till now :). Just want that time to come back again which is not at all possible. This is life and this is how it goes, we can't do anything. The childhood memories are wonderful to remember. The smell of new books and thinking whole day in the class what will be there in the lunch box today. The stage fear in school during mandatory news reading, playing volley ball, khokho,those oiled and plaited hairs, those school uniform...

 God!!! Now when I am getting married the next month the memories of childhood just amazes me.. The transition from child of my parents to being somebody's,  leaving the home where I spent all my childhood days is really a different feeling ..A feeling of pain or happiness??  I dont know.. what I know is its a mixed feeling..

So much have changed since childhood..

Me in those wonderful days





Me now all grown up..



Just wondering how life changes so quickly...

When I talk about childhood the poem of Subhadra kumari chauhan strikes always.. I first time read it in my Hindi text book..and now I always surf net and read it more oftenly..

मेरा नया बचपन 

बार-बार आती है मुझको मधुर याद बचपन तेरी।
गया ले गया तू जीवन की सबसे मस्त खुशी मेरी॥

चिंता-रहित खेलना-खाना वह फिरना निर्भय स्वच्छंद।
कैसे भूला जा सकता है बचपन का अतुलित आनंद?

ऊँच-नीच का ज्ञान नहीं था छुआछूत किसने जानी?
बनी हुई थी वहाँ झोंपड़ी और चीथड़ों में रानी॥

किये दूध के कुल्ले मैंने चूस अँगूठा सुधा पिया।
किलकारी किल्लोल मचाकर सूना घर आबाद किया॥

रोना और मचल जाना भी क्या आनंद दिखाते थे।
बड़े-बड़े मोती-से आँसू जयमाला पहनाते थे॥

मैं रोई, माँ काम छोड़कर आईं, मुझको उठा लिया।
झाड़-पोंछ कर चूम-चूम कर गीले गालों को सुखा दिया॥

दादा ने चंदा दिखलाया नेत्र नीर-युत दमक उठे।
धुली हुई मुस्कान देख कर सबके चेहरे चमक उठे॥

वह सुख का साम्राज्य छोड़कर मैं मतवाली बड़ी हुई।
लुटी हुई, कुछ ठगी हुई-सी दौड़ द्वार पर खड़ी हुई॥

लाजभरी आँखें थीं मेरी मन में उमँग रँगीली थी।
तान रसीली थी कानों में चंचल छैल छबीली थी॥

दिल में एक चुभन-सी थी यह दुनिया अलबेली थी।
मन में एक पहेली थी मैं सब के बीच अकेली थी॥

मिला, खोजती थी जिसको हे बचपन! ठगा दिया तूने।
अरे! जवानी के फंदे में मुझको फँसा दिया तूने॥

सब गलियाँ उसकी भी देखीं उसकी खुशियाँ न्यारी हैं।
प्यारी, प्रीतम की रँग-रलियों की स्मृतियाँ भी प्यारी हैं॥

माना मैंने युवा-काल का जीवन खूब निराला है।
आकांक्षा, पुरुषार्थ, ज्ञान का उदय मोहनेवाला है॥

किंतु यहाँ झंझट है भारी युद्ध-क्षेत्र संसार बना।
चिंता के चक्कर में पड़कर जीवन भी है भार बना॥

आ जा बचपन! एक बार फिर दे दे अपनी निर्मल शांति।
व्याकुल व्यथा मिटानेवाली वह अपनी प्राकृत विश्रांति॥

– सुभद्राकुमारी चौहान


The other favourite being this ...


Yeh daulat bhii le lo,
Yeh shoharat bhii le lo,
Bhale chhiin lo mujhase merii javaanii,
Magar mujhako lautaa do bachapan kaa saavan,
Woh kaagaz kii kashtii, woh baarish kaa paanii,
Muhalle kii sabase nishaanii puraanii,
Woh budhiyaa jise bachche kahate the naanii,
Woh naanii kii baaton mein pariyon kaa deraa,
Woh chahare kii jhuriryon mein sadiyon kaa pheraa,
Bhulaae nahiin bhool sakataa hai koi,
Woh chhotii sii raaten woh lambii kahaanii,
Kadii dhuup mein apane ghar se nikalanaa,
Woh chidiyaa Woh bulabul Woh titalii pakadanaa,
Woh gudiyaa kii shaadii mein ladanaa jhagadanaa,
Woh jhoolon se giranaa Woh gir ke sambhalanaa,
Woh piital ke chhallon ke pyaare se tohafe,
Woh tuutii hui chuudiyon kii nishaanii,
Kabhii rait ke unche tiilon pay jaanaa,
Gharaunde banaanaa banaake mitaanaa,
Woh maasuum chahat kii tasviir apanii,
Woh khvaabon khilaunon kii jaagiir apanii,
Na duniyaa kaa gam thaa Na rishton ke bandhan,
Badii khuubasuurat thii vo zindagaanii


With this I leave you all with the beautiful and sweet memories of childhood..