It is a rainy sunday morning, woke up early @11 AM .. whatt ?? yes its early for me as I usually wake up at 1 PM on weekends. RAins --- Nothing new .. ehhh ? Pune rains not a rare sight but we soon cease to realize the importance of things once we are blessed with their abundance. In Life too , we stop valuing things after getting them, things that we used to crave for , people that we used to love being with , moments that we dreamt of .. happiness that was just a dream, yet to come true.
So basically, I was having my morning tea by my window side watching the rains outside , watching roads/people getting drained and hence it is the time for me to get immersed in my writings and some old memories. I was listening to some good old songs, not the classic ones but old with reference to my life events.. Songs that remind me of the good times that I happened to spend with my best friend under the same roof. I closed my eyes and was able to feel , to re - live and also see myself right there in my room at Lucknow in my customized life. My room , my kitchen , my music system that I jointly owned with my roomie of 7 plus years, my novel collection , my kaam wali bai , my Tulsi ... my friends and all those things which I considered would be mine always ! Pheww ... but you see people change places , they do they change themselves , they move and move on , they dissappear .. things change , places change , hence Life changes. Yess .. but there always will be a striking resemblance between "YOU of now" and "you of then". All You need is that one connecting point that would bootstrap to those good old times where you feel like spending a Lifetime. That can be anything as material as a photograph , a movie , songs , gifts , diaries , poems written in those days or as immaterial as a person resembling your loved one in crowd , or just a random breeze or even the mundane Pune rains like today's . You see things that used to surround you , support you , sustains you may not be around now but certainly there are other things or the remains of those things only, that kept you going so far. That's why you are ALIVE and you were able to feel all this and get yourself transported to those memories.
So its you whom you can always save and never let go. If you are able to save yourself, bingo ! you save the world, at least your world. Your first and foremost duty is being honest to yourself , to Life. Accept what you are , what you love and also what you can't withstand. Be with the one you love and wish to be, but before that be with self. Please Be !!
Tracks :
# Phir le aya dil -- Barfi
# Jee le zara -- Talaash
# Jiya lage na tum bina mora --- Talaash
# Saaiyan me re saaiyan -- Heroine
