and miles to go before I sleep...

Recently I visited to Rajkot, palce where I was brought up, almost after the gap of 5 years, and felt like being just left that place few moments before. I felt and probably many of other would agree that always the place you are brought up, spend your childhood, both having good & bad memories, always fills you with positiveness, lot and lot of them.  I experienced that during my recent Rajkot visit. 


The visit came almost real after lots of uncertainty & difficulties like flight delay, road blocks @ Ahmedabad due to rains, non-availablity of bus tickets but yes, finally I did make it.  That trip made me believe in lot many things, including the Paulo Coelho's quote in The Alchemist, "...when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." ...whether it was last auto at Ahmedabd airport or a traffic cop emerging from nowhere at ankur charrasta to make a way for my riksha or someone cancelling ticket at last moment in Eagle travels for Rajkot on eve of Raksha Bandhan (its very difficult to get a'bad-rajkot ticket on such days) or a collegian couple discussing their love for each other sitting next to me or a refresing coffee @ darshan after a long time or that late night call after a long time, I think it was the entire universe that day help me to re-live my moments.


The journey was tiring but as soon as I entered home, everything vanished, just like I was here just few second before.  Indeed life always does a full circle and sometimes brings you back to where you belonged.  This visit made me believe in it.

Lastly I got a surprise when I had my hand on a small notebook (perhaps my tution notebook) that was there along with some of old books I (or my mom) preserved, and I was quick to recognize four lines of a poem,  I was very fond of at that time & which defined myself, which I had written on last page along with my traditional three-dot signature... a Robert Frost poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'...

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

Inking down the entire poem, as a memory & tribute to the life that I lived, not only on that trip, but much before, a period that defines me and made me what I am today...
 

and miles to go before I sleep



Whose woods these are I think I know.   

His house is in the village though;   

He will not see me stopping here   

To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   

To stop without a farmhouse near   

Between the woods and frozen lake   

The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   

To ask if there is some mistake.   

The only other sound’s the sweep   

Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.   

But I have promises to keep,   

And miles to go before I sleep,   

And miles to go before I sleep.

 

 

Happy Independence Day!

To all those you value and to all those who take it for granted, wishing you Happy Independence Day!

Vande Mataram

હવે બેસી નથી રહેવું

બધું મનમાં દબાવીને હવે બેસી નથી રહેવું.
ફરી ગરદન ઝુકાવીને હવે બેસી નથી રહેવું.

કરીછે જંગની શરુઆત એણે, અંત હું આપીશ,
ફકત બાંયો ચડાવીને હવે બેસી નથી રહેવું.

કલમ ઉંચકી શકુંછું તો સુદર્શન પણ ગ્રહી શક્શું,
બધા શસ્ત્રો સજાવીને હવે બેસી નથી રહેવું.

નથી ઉપદેશ દેવા, કર્મથી લોકોમાં પુજાશું,
અહીં ધુણી ધખવીને હવે બેસી નથી રહેવું.

કર્યોછે પ્રેમ તો જાહેરમાં એને સ્વિકારીશું,
તને મનમાં વસાવીને હવે બેસી નથી રહેવું.

-ભાર્ગવ ઠાકર

 

Happy Friendship Day!!!

To all my friends, whom I can contact and whom I can't contact... Thanks for being there in a Journey called 'Life'.

Happy Friendship Day

Wishing you a cheerful Friendship Day!!!

- Alwayz... Hardik

I am blind, please help

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative.

(Author unknown, from the blog of Dennisse - Being Exceptional In An Ordinary World )

ક્યાં હવે...

 ક્યાં હવે પહેલાં સમું વાતાવરણ છે?
આપણી વચ્ચે અહમનું આવરણ છે.

પ્રેમમાં પડવું તો સહેલું હોય છે પણ,
ખુબ અઘરૂં પ્રેમ કેરું આચરણ છે.

રોજ સપનામાં તમે આવી મળો છો,
બંધ આંખે રોજનું આ જાગરણ છે.

માર્ગ ચોક્કસ લઈ જશે મંઝીલ તરફ પણ,
કઈ દિશામાં જઈ રહ્યા મારા ચરણ છે?

ભીંતરે છે સુખ છતાં કસ્તુરી માફક,
ચોતરફ એ શોધવા મથતા હરણ છે.

- ભાર્ગવ ઠાકર

 

Words of Wisdom!!!

...at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the worlds greatest lie.

- Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)