Then I was 8, now I am 18
Then I was innocent, now I am a bitch
The I the world loved/accepted me the way I was, now they love/accept me on my coolness.
Then I loved my parents, now I fight with them,
Then I fought with my sibling, now I can’t live w/o my sibling
Then I was directionless, now I have 100s of ‘em
Then I ran to catch a ball, now I run to catch a train/fame
Then I had a halo, now I have horns
Then I followed, now I lead
Then life was flawless, now life is filled with obstacles
Then I was just another girl, now I can’t afford to be just another girl,
Then I was in Bombay, now I am in Mumbai,
Then I wanted to be where I am today, now I want to go back to then
A lot has changed since then & keeps changing now, the 1 thing that hasn’t changed is that I had dreams then, I have dreams now
Life has become hectic & I keep loosing myself to now. But this now will soon become then one day & then I would again wanna go back to now. I loved my then , I like my now & I don’t know my future will be how!! But I shall keep dreaming & move on for now!!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
LETS CONQUER THE WORLD
Rise and shine, cos you have to!!
don't cry and whine, cos that won't do!!
you have to take over the world, let'em know you have it in you!!
don't let these teen years confuse you,
Hurdles are a plenty in these cross roads,
being Obama or Osama lies in your chores!!
getting fame comes at a cost,
it also makes you feel lost!!
dreams are a plenty when you sleep,
while some others which don't let you sleep!!
So rise and shine
spread your wings left and right!!
ignite the fire in you, cos its time to conquer the world!!
don't cry and whine, cos that won't do!!
you have to take over the world, let'em know you have it in you!!
don't let these teen years confuse you,
Hurdles are a plenty in these cross roads,
being Obama or Osama lies in your chores!!
getting fame comes at a cost,
it also makes you feel lost!!
dreams are a plenty when you sleep,
while some others which don't let you sleep!!
So rise and shine
spread your wings left and right!!
ignite the fire in you, cos its time to conquer the world!!
Friday, April 29, 2011
AND SO I CRIED
Every morning I wake up I think of you,
Every Night I sleep I think of you,
There has never been a moment, you didn’t cross mind,
If only you knew, how much you are remembered
If only you could think of me once,
The water flows for life, winds blow for the breeze,
The mountains rise for the sky, the clock ticks for day & night,
The sun brims to rise & shine,
& I live on in the hope of you falling for me one day,
This life seems to be a far cry, it seems to depair,
It journeys along the obstacles to find your path at the end,
These cross roads exude your faint memories,
The presence of those sweet memories illusions the bitter absence
& SO I CRIED , when you embraced me in your arms, a wait I longed for!!!
Every Night I sleep I think of you,
There has never been a moment, you didn’t cross mind,
If only you knew, how much you are remembered
If only you could think of me once,
The water flows for life, winds blow for the breeze,
The mountains rise for the sky, the clock ticks for day & night,
The sun brims to rise & shine,
& I live on in the hope of you falling for me one day,
This life seems to be a far cry, it seems to depair,
It journeys along the obstacles to find your path at the end,
These cross roads exude your faint memories,
The presence of those sweet memories illusions the bitter absence
& SO I CRIED , when you embraced me in your arms, a wait I longed for!!!
Thursday, April 21, 2011
THINGS FALL APART
Don’t they? Every time you feel life is going good & smoothly, suddenly from nowhere comes a blow & takes away all the happiness, why is that things fall apart? ‘’The Secret’’ book says that if we’re positive, the universe will move & give us the thing we want the most be it a job/ bungalow, etc, universe is like a catalogue, where we just need to say positively what we need & it’ll be received, but being too positive can lead to over confidence, this is where things fall apart, loosing that job, the love, the friends, the family or anything.
Like after recession there’s inflation same way after bad there’s good, but if things are falling apart right now, that’s only cause better things await us as the old buildings are demolished to give way to high rises.
The best way to shift your focus when things are falling apart is to look out of your window & feel blessed to have at least a little of what others don’t...if you have food in your fridge, clothes in your cupboard, roof over your head a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the entire world, if you have money in your wallet, a lil change n can go anywhere you want, you are among the top 8 % of the world’s wealthy, if you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are blessed than the million people who won’t survive this week. If you can read this & understand it, you are more fortunate than the 3 billion people who cannot see or suffer being mentally challenged, life is not about complaining for small reasons that don’t really mater, it’s about a thousand other reasons to be happy.
Paulo Coelho wrote this small piece- a group of pilgrims once went to meet a saint known to cure all problems, looking at the number of people cribbing about their problems, he decided to teach everyone a lesson, asked all of them to write their worries on a piece of paper & inter change with others, one by one he called them to read it out loud, listening to the problems they came to know that their respective problems were nothing compared to the others, they went back feeling blessed.
So if things fall apart look at the good things you have & if you’re at the edge God will either teach you how to fly or catch you just before you fall
Like after recession there’s inflation same way after bad there’s good, but if things are falling apart right now, that’s only cause better things await us as the old buildings are demolished to give way to high rises.
The best way to shift your focus when things are falling apart is to look out of your window & feel blessed to have at least a little of what others don’t...if you have food in your fridge, clothes in your cupboard, roof over your head a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of the entire world, if you have money in your wallet, a lil change n can go anywhere you want, you are among the top 8 % of the world’s wealthy, if you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are blessed than the million people who won’t survive this week. If you can read this & understand it, you are more fortunate than the 3 billion people who cannot see or suffer being mentally challenged, life is not about complaining for small reasons that don’t really mater, it’s about a thousand other reasons to be happy.
Paulo Coelho wrote this small piece- a group of pilgrims once went to meet a saint known to cure all problems, looking at the number of people cribbing about their problems, he decided to teach everyone a lesson, asked all of them to write their worries on a piece of paper & inter change with others, one by one he called them to read it out loud, listening to the problems they came to know that their respective problems were nothing compared to the others, they went back feeling blessed.
So if things fall apart look at the good things you have & if you’re at the edge God will either teach you how to fly or catch you just before you fall
Thursday, March 31, 2011
5 AGAIN
I'm a barbie girl, in the barbie world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
Oh, I'm having so much fun!
Well Barbie, we're just getting started
Oh, I love you Ken!
When you’re 5 life is like a fantasy land where all people are filled with cotton candy & rainbows, there are no worries.... you can choose to dress like a boy/girl & you will turn out to be cute anyway..... y can’t I be 5 again? Where all we did was eat, sleep, roam, play , watch tv, do all the bad stuff put it on someone else or make that puppy face & you’re an angel, where santa clause got me gifts & thinking tooth fairy will give me better teeth , ate chocolates all the time.... where no one cared how I look or what I wear birthday parties meant calling all the friends home, cutting that Barbie cake & going to the circus or zoo.... where going to school was like going to a place where all the friends met, played a little , sang some rhymes & got back home, where after reaching home- going to sleep, eating & again going & playing hide & seek & all those games, where no sibling rivalry was a distant thought.............ahh how I wish I was 5 again!!!!!
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
Imagination, life is your creation
Come on Barbie, let's go party!
Oh, I'm having so much fun!
Well Barbie, we're just getting started
Oh, I love you Ken!
When you’re 5 life is like a fantasy land where all people are filled with cotton candy & rainbows, there are no worries.... you can choose to dress like a boy/girl & you will turn out to be cute anyway..... y can’t I be 5 again? Where all we did was eat, sleep, roam, play , watch tv, do all the bad stuff put it on someone else or make that puppy face & you’re an angel, where santa clause got me gifts & thinking tooth fairy will give me better teeth , ate chocolates all the time.... where no one cared how I look or what I wear birthday parties meant calling all the friends home, cutting that Barbie cake & going to the circus or zoo.... where going to school was like going to a place where all the friends met, played a little , sang some rhymes & got back home, where after reaching home- going to sleep, eating & again going & playing hide & seek & all those games, where no sibling rivalry was a distant thought.............ahh how I wish I was 5 again!!!!!
Monday, March 14, 2011
BITTER SWEET MEMORIES
When you’re 16, your world changes, from school you make a transition into college.
From that protected, spoon fed life in school you suddenly are left alone to fend for yourself. But of course everyone enjoys college life, what with the FREEDOM that one gets to experience? From bunking, watching movie with that special someone to driving, smoking & what not.... but then there are those moments before we enter college, those moments where we never want to leave school, the sadness of leaving our second home where we spent almost 13 years , those life long friends, those teachers whom we troubled so much (even though we thought it was the other way round) all those moments, different celebrations captured in our minds & hearts forever.
On that farewell day where we cried & filled buckets- all bitter sweet memories.
In the 13 years of our school life, 12 years we can’t wait to get out but it’s the last 13th year where we wish time stops forever & we could stay here forever & it is this last year that gets over in a blink & is gone with the wind.... that last camp, where we did it all from locking the teacher’s room, to those ghost stories to painting those friends faces who dozed off- bitter sweet memories.
But then comes college life where we find new friends & we create bitter sweet memories with them too, with all the bunking, sleepovers, when we go through old photos of all those fun times we realize we were no just having fun, but were creating bitter sweet memories to last forever.
One day when you’re sitting in your office looking out the window those memmries will flash in front of you ....
Bunking those lectures with friends,
Where coffee was just an excuse to have thos long chats,
Talking the night before exams & discussing who will beat the other in getting a KT,
Being happy on getting that KT,
Those bike rides at marine drive,
Going to college to get a glimpse of that special someone sitting on the 3rd bench of your class,
Making those promises of staying in touch forever till death do us apart,
Giving them a treat off your 1st pay cheque & now wondering where did all those moments go away.... how did I become so busy in life? & crying on remembering those bitter sweet memories as the song goes ‘’aneh wala pal,pal meh jane wala hai, ho sake toh usmeh zindagi bita lo pal jo ye janeh wala hai”.
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played 'til my fingers bled
It was summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a Band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shualda known we'd never get far
Oh when I lock back now
That was seemes to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Somethimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong
Standin' on a mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
From that protected, spoon fed life in school you suddenly are left alone to fend for yourself. But of course everyone enjoys college life, what with the FREEDOM that one gets to experience? From bunking, watching movie with that special someone to driving, smoking & what not.... but then there are those moments before we enter college, those moments where we never want to leave school, the sadness of leaving our second home where we spent almost 13 years , those life long friends, those teachers whom we troubled so much (even though we thought it was the other way round) all those moments, different celebrations captured in our minds & hearts forever.
On that farewell day where we cried & filled buckets- all bitter sweet memories.
In the 13 years of our school life, 12 years we can’t wait to get out but it’s the last 13th year where we wish time stops forever & we could stay here forever & it is this last year that gets over in a blink & is gone with the wind.... that last camp, where we did it all from locking the teacher’s room, to those ghost stories to painting those friends faces who dozed off- bitter sweet memories.
But then comes college life where we find new friends & we create bitter sweet memories with them too, with all the bunking, sleepovers, when we go through old photos of all those fun times we realize we were no just having fun, but were creating bitter sweet memories to last forever.
One day when you’re sitting in your office looking out the window those memmries will flash in front of you ....
Bunking those lectures with friends,
Where coffee was just an excuse to have thos long chats,
Talking the night before exams & discussing who will beat the other in getting a KT,
Being happy on getting that KT,
Those bike rides at marine drive,
Going to college to get a glimpse of that special someone sitting on the 3rd bench of your class,
Making those promises of staying in touch forever till death do us apart,
Giving them a treat off your 1st pay cheque & now wondering where did all those moments go away.... how did I become so busy in life? & crying on remembering those bitter sweet memories as the song goes ‘’aneh wala pal,pal meh jane wala hai, ho sake toh usmeh zindagi bita lo pal jo ye janeh wala hai”.
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played 'til my fingers bled
It was summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a Band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shualda known we'd never get far
Oh when I lock back now
That was seemes to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Somethimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong
Standin' on a mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
ONLY FOR YOU
Only for you I write this,
Only for you I am born,
Only for you I live,
Only for you I shall die,
Only for you I fight,
Only for you I sacrifice,
Only for you I smile,
Only for you I cry,
Only for you I to keep going,
Only for you I get the courage to get up next morn,
Only for you I sleep at night,
Only for you I am here,
Only for you I pray,
Only for you I am a hero,
Only for you I love,
Only for you I will never give up,
Only for you I survive the extremes,
Only for you my heart beats,
Only for you I stake my life,
When they raise their eyes at you, only for you I raise my hands at them,
Only for you I shall be reborn
To my dear country,
ex Army officer
Only for you I am born,
Only for you I live,
Only for you I shall die,
Only for you I fight,
Only for you I sacrifice,
Only for you I smile,
Only for you I cry,
Only for you I to keep going,
Only for you I get the courage to get up next morn,
Only for you I sleep at night,
Only for you I am here,
Only for you I pray,
Only for you I am a hero,
Only for you I love,
Only for you I will never give up,
Only for you I survive the extremes,
Only for you my heart beats,
Only for you I stake my life,
When they raise their eyes at you, only for you I raise my hands at them,
Only for you I shall be reborn
To my dear country,
ex Army officer
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