Mettle Work

There is an extremely thin line between being naive and being dumb.

Jaane Kya Baat Hui...

Yun Toh Koi Gilaa Nahin
Sab Kuch Tha Kya Naa Tha
Phir Bhi Jo Ikk Kami Si Thi
Uska Pata Naa Tha

Yun Toh Koi Gilaa Nahin...

Yeh Kaun Mujh Mein Chupke
Mujhe Dekhne Laga
Itna Hassen Pehle
Kabhi Aaeena Naa Tha

Yun Toh Koi Gilaa Nahin...

Jaane Kya Baat Hui,
Jaane Kya Baat Hui...

Haan dhoop mottiyon si
Jhaankti thi na kabhi
Itni to raat-rani
Mehekti thi na kabhi

Mausam hara to tha magar
Itna hara na tha
Gaate hain phool patte
Bajate hain taaliyan

Khush ho ke naachte hain
Trakaton pe daaliyan
Khamoshiyon ko bolte
Pehle suna tha

Yun Toh Koi Gilaa Nahin...

Jaane Kya Baat Hui,
Jaane Kya Baat Hui...

Purest at heart... :)

Came across this beautiful article on the Teach For India Blog. Must read.

Unravelling the Mystery of God in a 2nd grade classroom

This testifies how pure kids are at their heart, unadulterated by the adult opinions of the world. A couple more such excerpts I completely loved:

"Kids are wonderfully honest. Kids are also fantastic actors. Kids are transparent. Kids also hide. But, the beauty is, for every kid who is an actor, there are many others who’d want to impress the Teacher by telling the truth." :Part of a post on the TFI blog

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
- Pablo Picasso

From the Bhagwad Gita...

"There is no end. For the soul there is never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does it ever cease to be. It is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval..."

Music Saves My Soul

Whatever would happen to me, if there weren't any music. So many times have I thought of making a list of all my favorite songs. Just to keep a track of which one I am mesmerized with currently, may be I should constantly post the ongoing favorites. Here's the one I am humming right now:

Main Tenu Samjhawan Ki, Na Tere Bajhon Lagda Ji... by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Awesome Song with equally awesome lyrics. Though I hardly pay attention to the lyrics of a song, this one completely beholds my soul for the time it flows.

Iterations of My Self

I was thinking today if I would want to go back and re-live my life till this moment; Correct all the mistakes that I ever made; set right all those instances that can be improved and relive all those moments I enjoyed to the fullest. I realized that I won't.

The worst experiences in our lives teach us the best lessons. Lessons that change us completely, make us a different person, change our definitions and make us feel glad to have had those bad days at the first place. Given a chance to go back and edit them, would I do that? No, because then my learning won't be the same anymore, my experience wouldn't be commensurate anymore, my roots wouldn't be strong any longer. I don't regret most of the mistakes I ever made, don't want to change any of the most awful experiences I sustained. Because with each of those gales, I know, I just grew a little stronger, a little bolder, a little wiser and a little kinder

The intent of our lives...

"The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all." -Leo Rosten

This quote doesn't mean that the intention of our lives is to be sad either. All it portrays is the difference between directing our actions to our happiness and procuring happiness automatically as a result of our karma, the reason for our existence.