Kash Kabhi Aisa Ho Jaye


काश कभी ऐसा हो जाए 
रिमझिम रिमझिम बारिश हो, ठंडी हवा के झोंके हो
धीमा धीमा सा प्रकाश और हरयाली के चेहरे हो 
काश कभी ऐसा हो
गरम शौल में लिपटे सा, हाथ में गरम प्याला हो
खिड़की के एक कोने से दूर कहीं कुछ दीखता हो
सहमा सा पानी में चलके, पास कोई आता हो
और हर गुज़रता पल यूँ अनजाना सा लगता हो
काश कभी ऐसा हो
भीगे पंची सा वो मेरे, दरवाज़े पे आ खड़ा हो 
नरम-नरम हवा के झोंके, बालों को सहलाते हो
कप-कंपाते भीगे होंठ और 'मासूम' सा चेहरा हो
दरवाज़ा खोल देखूं तो, वो लम्हा रुक सा जाता हो
काश कभी ऐसा हो
बारिश की पहली साँसों में, मिटटी की अंगडाई हो 
मौसम के फूलों की, खुशबू कहीं से आती हो
टिप-टिप की आवाज़ ख़ामोशी को, गहरा-गहरा कर जाती हो
सन्नाटे-सनते   हम दोनों, बेसुध हो कर बैठें हो 
काश कभी ऐसा हो

Kash Kabhi Aisa Ho Jaye
Rim-Jhim Rim-Jhim Baarish Ho, Thandi Hawa Ke Jhonke Ho
Dheema-Dheema Sa Prakash Aur Haryaali Ke Chehre Ho
Kash Kabhi Aisa Ho
Garam Shaul Mein Lipta Sa, Haath Mein Garam Pyala Ho
Khidki Ke Ek Kone Se, Door Kahin Kuch Dikhta Ho 
Sehma Sa Paani Mein Chalke, Paas Koi Aata Ho
Aur Har Guzarta Pal Yun, Anjaana Sa Lagta Ho
Kash Kabhi Aisa Ho
Bheege Panchi Sa Vo Mere, Darwaaze Pe Aa Khada Ho
Naram-Naram Hawa Ke Jhonke, Baalon Ko Sehlaate Ho
Kap-Kanpaate Bheege Hothon Aur 'MasooM' Sa Chehra Ho 
Darwaaza Khol Dekhoon To, Wo Lamha Ruk Sa Jaata Ho
Kash Kabhi Aisa Ho
Baarish Ki Pehli Saanson Mein, Mitti Ki Angdaayi Ho
Mausam Ke Pehle Phoolon Ki, Khooshbu Kahin Se Aati Ho
Tip-Tip Ki Aawaz Khamoshi Ko, Gehra-Gehra Kar Jaati Ho
San_naate Sante Ham Dono, Besudh Hoker Betho Ho
Kash Kabhi Aisa Ho






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Are you chivalrous?


Once, a man opened the door for a woman. She, being women's-libber kind of a person said rather aggressively, "Did you open the door for me because I'm a lady?" "NO," replied the man, "I opened the door because I am a gentleman.”

We are social beings and the little things we do for others or that others do for us - the thank yous, the pleases - its sweet, it need not to be looked at with suspicion & need not clash with our ‘I am independent' thinking. I for example am a chivalrous kind of guy. No I am not self-praising but I really do like to help others. In a bus I get up when I see an elderly man / woman or pregnant lady needing a seat. I think if I'm young, fit and healthy, I don't need to sit down - therefore I see no reason why I shouldn't offer my seat to someone who needs it more than me. 
One time (I was a kid, probably in 1st/2nd class) we were going to our home town (Himachal) by bus. We (my family) all got our seats but after a while bus got crowded and there was a lady standing with her baby. So my dad offered her his seat. I thought it was a gentlemanly thing and it made me respect him even more. 
But good manners are lost somewhere these days. Small courtesies are extinct. I guess, it's a part of evolution. But evolution should make things better than before, right? I have seen men sitting in a bus while some lady/ elderly man is standing. I mean how would it look if a man jumps into the elevator ahead of a woman? Or an elderly man is carrying heavy bags and a man can’t even open the doors. I can never do this. I don’t care if my friends see this as a cheap trick to impress a girl because this is who I am and this is what I like to do. 
I've opened the doors for girls, or waited for them to enter the lift first, or let them go ahead first into a room, or pulled the chair, or paid the bill on our first meeting. I’ve even carried a heavy shopping bag or stood like a china wall between her & an unruly crowd in a bus or train. I‘ve not done all these things only for the sake of good impression but I’ve come out feeling good about such experience. It feels nice to be a gentleman. 

So what I'm trying to say is that:
Chivalry is a simple courtesy. And it’d work both ways: if somebody holds the door open for you say a ‘thank you’ in return. Chivalry & good manners should be in BOTH the genders. Wish the concept was not limited to the things men do for women but extended to include things that people do for ‘others’.


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P.S: Actually I got the idea about this topic from my roomie Jasneet. We were out for dinner at a restaurant. I was carrying a bag and he kept the door open for me. It felt nice to be respected. I said thank you and we shared a smile. J So I guess chivalry can be practiced in the same gender also.
P.P.S: Just remember… be courteous ... and courtesy will follow you everywhere.




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Left alone !



So today I woke up with a weird feeling that I am really a ‘loner’ and I am going to remain like this forever. Now why did I feel like this ? Oh! Because of what happened yesterday.

I found my long lost childhood friend, thanks to Facebook. He was my neighbor, classmate and we were friends till 3rd/4th class when his father was transferred and he had to move away to a new city. It was nice to be in touch with him again. We started talking about how we were back in those days. He told me a lot of things about what we used to do together, most of which I didn’t remember (I felt bad). I was wondering that he remembered every tiny little detail which made me feel worse. 

So we were talking for about half an hour and then as usual there comes a pause (awkward sometimes) in every conversation where you don’t have anything to say and then I don’t know if it’s weird or kind of sweet but out of nowhere he said, “I love you” and I was like …………………..what should I say – I love you too or I like you or ……………... I was out of proper words and so just to make him feel good and to avoid the awkward silence I said “Same here”. I hope that’s not Gayish and my roommates are not reading this because then it will give them another good reason to call me gay (It’s a long story).

Anyways, after that he asked me about my family, I replied and then I said “okay, I gotta go“. I don’t know why I did that. He was being nice to me. Obviously he didn’t mean it in that way (I hope not), but I just shut him down. Now this was not because he is a guy, because there were also two other sweet girls with whom I did the same thing. The first one was my phone-friend who started liking me and after going-on for a while I did the same thing and with the second one, I even dated her  for couple of times(Again a long story, some other time ) and I always tried to ignore her.
I don’t know, what is my problem? Why I shut down people when they get close to me. What is this thing/phobia with me?

There are some people who have given big contributions to my life, they are the big pieces of my almost-complete life. I never thought that I would ever realize that they are actually amazing people. And all this time, I never realized that I'd let them go away and yet keep letting another ones go away out of my life, one by one. I have some people whom I never contact anymore. I don’t know where they live, I don't have their facebooks, they have changed their phone numbers, I don't follow their twitter, totally lost them. And today morning, I felt so stupid for letting them disappear from my life. And now I want to change things, I want to try to contact them, I just don't know how.

See, there are some parts of our lives that we are going to lose. People we know are going to disappear and live their own lives without us, without you, without me. Everything is bound to change and so I think that maybe all we need to do is to love people we have in our lives right now, people who still say ‘hey’ to us, even though not every day, people who still smile at us when we see each other, people who still care about us and say “I love you”. Maybe all we have to do is to tell them back that we love them too and we don’t want them to disappear from our lives, because we don’t want to regret for being so stupid to lose them, because we don’t want to miss them terribly, because we don’t want to wake up in the morning, feeling left alone.




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