The One You Cannot Have

This love, it is a funny thing. It can elevate you to the highest peak and plunge you to a bottomless pit.  The path we plan for ourselves meanders in ways we can never imagine. Life never ceases to throw us googlies. It is how we handle them that makes all the difference. Sometimes you have to take control of it and, at other times, it is best to let go. And the wisest of persons is the one who knows which option to choose.

 - Sanjeev Advani, in Preeti Shenoy's 'The One You Cannot Have'

The One You Cannot Have

No matter how much you try, no matter how much you want to love somebody else, no matter how much you convince yourself that you have moved on, deep down you know the truth. If you are deliriously happy when you think about someone and a smile creeps up on you, even when you are in the worst of moods, if even a mere thought your weary body, then it is nothing by love. You can try to squish it, pretend that it does not exist, ignore it, try to make it go away, but it never entirely does. 

It always finds a way back.

 - Shruti, in Preeti Shenoy's 'The One You Cannot Have' 

A Conversation from ForgettableMemories

She: I miss you
He: You said, you couldn't accept my love
She: but surely, can't I miss you as a friend?

He: I don't live in a world with identity crisis, love & friendship cannot exist together unless they reciprocate.
 

She: But, that's selfish
He: & a healthy too
 

She: You're hurting me & my honest friendship
He: Nope, I am just ensuring that the fragility of friendship and purity of love is preserved.

- a conversation from #ForgettableMemories

Friday Read : કોઈ સજ્જન માણસ પણ છે

એક ચાર વર્ષનો ભાઈ અને એની છ વર્ષની બહેન
બંને ભાઇ બહેન બજાર મા ફરવા નીકળ્યા છે
નાનો ભાઈ છટા થી આગળ ચાલે છે
અને બહેન પાછળ છે

થોડી થોડી વારે ભાઈ પાછળ જોતો જાય છે કે બહેન આવે છે કે નહીં

રમકડા ની એક દુકાન આગળ બહેન ઊભી રહી જાય છે
ભાઈ નજીક આવી ને પૂછે છે
"કેમ તારે કાંઇ લેવુ છે ?"

બહેને ઢીંગલી સામે આંગળી ચીંધીને બતાવ્યું
ભાઈ એ બહેન ની આંગળી પકડી
અને એક વડીલ ની અદા થી
બહેન ને એ ઢીંગલી હાથ મા આપી
બહેન ખુબ જ ખુશ થઇ

કાઉન્ટર પર બેઠેલો વેપારી
આ ભાઈ બહેન ને બહાર થી જોતા હતા
અને ભાઈ ના માસુમ વડપણ ને નીરખી ને મનમાં મુસ્કુરાતા હતા

કાઉન્ટર પાસે આવીને ચાર વર્ષનો એ બાળક બોલ્યો
'આ ઢીંગલી નુ શું છે ?'

"જીવતર ને ઘોળીને પી ગયેલા" એ વેપારી એ કહ્યું
'તમારી પાસે શું છે ?'

બાળકે ચડ્ડી ના ખીસ્સામાં થી સમુદ્ર ના છીપલા કાઢ્યા અને કાઉન્ટર પર મુક્યા
પેલા વેપારીએ એ જ માર્મિક હાસ્ય સાથે બાળક ઉપર અમીભરી દ્રષ્ટિ કરી
અને જેમ રુપિયા ગણે એમ છીપલા ગણ્યા

બાળકે કહ્યું 'કેમ ઓછા છે ?'
વેપારી કહે 'ના આમાંથી તો વધશે'

વધેલા છીપલા ફરી ખીસ્સામાં નાખી અને ઢીંગલી રમાડતાં એ બાળકો તો જતાં રહ્યાં પણ

એના ગયા પછી વેપારી ને એના માણસે પૂછ્યું
'આવી કિંમતી ઢીંગલી તમે છીપલા ના બદલા મા આપી દીધી ?'

વેપારી એ કહ્યું
 

'ભાઈ, આપણે મન આ છીપલા છે
એને મન તો એની સંપતિ છે અને અત્યારે એને ભલે ના સમજાય
પણ એ મોટા થશે ત્યારે તો એને સમજાશ નેે

કે છીપ ના બદલે આપણે ઢીંગલી લઈ આવેલા ત્યાંરે એ મને યાદ કરશે
અને એ વિચારશે કે દુનિયામાં સજ્જન માણસો પણ છે.

- A WhatsApp forward, to remember.

Remembered and Forgotten

She: you remember so much.

He: I haven’t forgotten at all

She: That’s why you are my friend

He: Indeed, you are the only best friend I have

- a simple yet a powerful conversation to walk you right through past…

Wisdom of Day !!!

Impossible

Impossible is not a fact, its an opinion.

A thought on full moon night !!!

Even today looking at full moon, I wonder why it has black spots. It made me remember an old man's advice, beauty & perfection never goes together,  just as happiness & compromise. 

Accepted level of compromise brings happiness while intolerable compromise scares away happiness.

- a thought on one such full moon night

'Just one year back' is now a decade old lines :-(

10 years ago, I shared this email with my college friends and lot of people had their eyes filled with tears... I am sure, today also they will have same effect. 

Disclaimer: It's not my writing and being almost 11 years old script, have no one to give credit too.

Just one year back, we were breaking our heads to finish our projects by hook or crook.

Just one year back we were feeling bad about leaving college.

Just one year back we were regretting the dismal state of our love lives.

Just one year back most of us didn't know where we were headed.

Just one year back we hardly had any major responsibilities.

Just one year back we were justifying our selection of electives.

Just one year back, we almost lost the ability to read engineering text books. Thankfully for the exams, we got it back.

Just one year back we wanted to spend more time in college than go out bowling, or to a movie or etc.

Just one year back we wanted to go through the college routine one-last-perfect-time.

Just one year back we wanted to curse the appropriate people one last time.

Just one year back I didn't even know I would be doing this...

The most remembered place on Campus

Missing that corridor of life,

that I haven't visited for more then a decade now...

Wisdom of Day!!!

The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept in silence sealed, the thought, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed.

- adapted from movie, Definitely, Maybe.

Reel life take-away - 'If I Stay'

Watched the movie 'If I Stay' (IMDb), and should I say, its one of the most touching story I have seen in recent times.  The way it shows the importance of every moment in life and a flashback is amazing...  Guys do watch out this movie if 'moment' permits...

Wisdom of Day !!!

The moment you loose hope of Change, you have an opportunity to initiate the Change. It's up to individual to either live with lost hope or grab the opportunity.
- Hardik Thaker

A thought on day of receiving my revised Compensation Letter. :-)

Wisdom of Day - Life !!!

Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. 

Things not going exactly like you planed. 

But that's what makes it interesting. 

In life the first act is always exciting. 

The second act... that is where the depth comes in.

- Gloria in movie Grown Ups

એને નવું વર્ષ કહેવાય !!! - Welcome 2015

મારાં સપનાં તારી આંખે સાચાં પડતાં જાય
એને નવું વર્ષ કહેવાય…

હું કંઈ પણ ના બોલું તો પણ તરત તને સમજાય
એને નવું વર્ષ કહેવાય…

ખુલ્લી સવાર જેવું જીવશું કાયમ મસ્ત મજાનું
પકડાઈ જવાની મજા પડે ને એવું કાઢશું બહાનું
લાભ, શુભ ને ચોઘડિયાં પણ અંદરથી શરમાય
એને નવું વર્ષ કહેવાય…

જીવન એવું જીવશું જાણે સહજ અવતરે પ્રાસ
વ્હાલ નીતરતા શ્વાસમાં ઘૂંટશું ઈશ્વરનો અહેસાસ
ટૂંકમાં, તારી સાથે દિવસો ઉત્સવ થઈ ઊજવાય
એને નવું વર્ષ કહેવાય…

- from unknown author

(found this wonderful lines as WhatsApp forward)

 

Wisdom of Day - Love & Friendship

Love & Friendship

Love & Friendship is synonymous to two different road, while one always looks at the Destination, other is about enjoying the Journey.

- a thought on a tiresome train travel.

Our Beloved Principal - RIP Father Joseph Madhuravely

Sadden by the news of demise of a man I looked upon as an humble human being shaping numerous young lives over years... Our beloved school principal Father Joseph Madhuravely... May your soul rest in peace.

I have lots of remembrances of Father Joseph Madhuravely from my childhood days & some of those have shaped a person I am today.  Only regret I hold today is that I had a long time wish to meet him in person, as a grown up, thank him for all his guidance & scolding of course but as its said, You always loose a diamond when you are busy collecting stones.

He patted me after someone's comment on I shouldn't take medicines after I secured 100 out of 100 in mathematics & told me most important lesson of my life (I learned - do what your soul desires & not what anyone else wishes or expects...)

After missing three consecutive morning assembly sessions, when I meet him along with my besty, he listen to reasons & signed 'calender' with a single line (I learned - being late is not issue, being undisciplined is)

I always spoke 'Gujarati' as mode of communications & being in English Medium, its not less than heinous crime.  Once discussing to a non-Gujarati teacher in Gujarati, Father was amazed on my uniqueness of convincing her, later that day, standing at fish pond he told me what he observed (I learned - focus on communication itself rather than modes...)


I did lots of things in school which might not be ethically or morally correct, but I also did lot of other good things which a normal person would never dare to perform, specially at that age. When I got caught for doing something which I thought correct but morally a wrong act, I was punished to the severest, but then when at times I wished to explain the motives for my acts, only person who gave a patience hearing was him (I learned - admit mistake if you have slightest doubt on truth...)

In journey called life, we come across lots of people who believe in themselves, but very rarely we come across people who believe in others.  I was lucky to meet one person, Father Joseph Madhuravely, who not only played very important part in shaping my future but lots of other St. Marian's.

Will miss you forever Father, May your soul rest in peace.

Define FEAR ?

False Evidence Appearing Real.

- Image Courtesy : Instagram

કર...

અંતની પરવા ન કર શરૂઆત કર
હોય એ કડવી ભલે ને,વાત કર !

ખૂબ મીઠું દર્દ ઝણઝણશે ફરી
આ હ્રદય પર તું ફરી આઘાત કર!!

એ અજાણી કોઈને લાગે નહીં
વેદનાને એટલી પ્રખ્યાત કર!

આ નગરના લોક સૌ દિલદાર છે
ખોલ દીલ તારું તું દીલની વાત। કર!

દિલ હશે તો દિલનું સાંભળશે જરૂર
જેમ ફાવે તેમ તું રજૂઆત કર.

તું જરા તારા ઉપર પણ ધ્યાન દે
કોણે કીધું પારકી પંચાત કર?

જેટલી નાની પડે દુનિયા તને
એટલી મોટી તું તારી જાત કર!

આ ક્ષણો માં કેટલી કડવાશ છે?
કોઈ વીતેલી ક્ષણો ની વાત કર...

ભાગ્યમાં છૅાને અમાસો હો છતાં એને
તું દીપાવલીની રાત કર...

~Rishabh Mehta  

હૃદયમાં છાપ છોડી જતી રચનામાની આ એક રચના

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Love - A Short Story !!!

It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80's arrived in the hospital to have stitches removed from his thumb.

He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him.

I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On examination, it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors, got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.

While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.

I inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while and that she was a victim of Alzheimer's Disease. As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.

I was surprised, and asked him, 'And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?'
 

He smiled as he patted my hand and said, 'She doesn't know me, but I still know who she is.'

True love is neither physical, nor romantic. True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.

- An WhatsApp story, I would like to share....

 

ઈશ્વર માટેની લોક-ઘેલછા !!!

Wonderful Gujarati Quote

 

ચડી આવે કદી ભૂખ્યો કોઈ હાંકી કાઢે છે,
નથી કાંઈ પેટ જેવું અન્નકૂટ એને જમાડે છે

કરાવે છે મકાનો ખાલી મંદિર બાંધવા માટે,
અહીં માનવને મારી લોક ઈશ્વર જીવાડે છે

- અમૃત ઘાયલ 

- Read this in one of the book, can't resist to post it here. 

 

Wonderful Lines - આપ !!!

મારી લાગણીને એક નવી રજૂઆત આપ,

ને મન ભરીને માણવાની પરવાનગી આપ.

 

ઉમંગોને ભરી ખોબે મને હળવેથી લે પાસ,

ઉરમાં ઉઠેલા નવા સ્પંદનોની હેલી તું આપ.

- કવિયત્રી બીજલ ત્રિવેદી (વિષ્ણુપ્રિયા)

  

હૃદયમાં છાપ છોડી જતી રચનામાની આ એક રચના

 

 

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