The sun shone on her face and penetrated deep into the unknown depths of her mind. She felt warm and comfortable. Minutes passed away easily and the clock ticked as usual. Life was perfect, with a strong belief that there was someone who loved deeply.
But what is it that was missing????
There were sounds that were still ringing, raising an urge to find more .....to explore, to develop , to raise ....
Alas the unquenchable thirst of man, always pushing us to find more.....But after all, that's what keeps us away from stagnation..........Our pursuit towards new unexplored horizons.......

"The Greatest Emotion!"

Image Courtesy Google

Words express emotions,
Some big, dark, some hued;
But there are emotions that transcend the limits,
that a writer can ever muse....
The emotion of love is deep after all,
deeper still when one tries to express it at all....
It's a bond that runs deeper than blood,
it makes senses meet and for togetherness it yearns........
There's no day of love, no hour nor week,
it surprises us each day, each hour , each week.....
Love is what brings the daylight alive,
and spreads its spark, in the darkest of nights......
Love is that which soaks in tears,
running from one and taken in by the other.
Love is what makes one sing,
the brightest of tunes, the melodiest of hymns...
Hymns we sing to thank the Lord,
for making us experience the greatest emotions of all.

Sometimes we fall short of words ......... too short to describe what we feel.........
the ink leaks ...............and the thoughts refuse to be poured with ease.......
waiting on unwritten crumbled sheets...

“Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers”

Once I was strolling in the by lanes of Daryaganj, a place full of the best known publishing houses. With creativity in my arms, my art files and folders, I strolled through the thick fog and crisp winter chill. I stopped by an old building and tried to recognise it, yes, this is the publisher I came to as a little girl, with rough sketches that weren't up to the mark. Now, as a final year arts student, I was hoping for the best to come my way.
I entered the door and furnished the guard with all the answers for which he raised innumerable questions."Is she still working here",I thought, I wished to meet her again. A flash back ran through my minds eye. Nearly eight years back, I had come to the same place with my sketches and my father holding my hand. I wanted to see them in a book and one of my friends told me , that to get my pictures in the book, I need to meet a publisher. My father knew that I was an artist in the making and therefore he never discouraged me, and brought me to the gate of the world, I had always dreamt of entering. As we entered the building, we were directed to the room of some Miss Komal, whom we had to meet to discuss my work.
Any other publisher would have laughed at my work, but she looked at it with a lot of interest. Finally she smiled, looked up and said," You know child, you're a great artist in the making, but like every diamond needs to be polished, you too need a little more practise in your work, your work would sparkle like a precious jewel in a few years time and then you can come to me, for I'd be waiting to publish it ".
That day my work wasn't accepted, but I came back with such words of encouragement, that gave me a new direction, towards achieving my aims.
Today as an artist, I have come back to the same place, convinced about the fact that I would make a place of my own in this world. I didn't meet Ms. Komal, but after submitting my work , I was contacted in a weeks time...My work was appreciated and was finalised for the next children's book, I was also offered the post of the art editor.

Encouragement plays a very important role in our life...never discourage anyone, for you never know when people achieve what seems to be "impossible".

“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success”

The picture is courtesy google and this is a pure work of fiction.

Bloom ANew!!

Its the 31st of December, a clear but cold morning winding up it's chores and getting ready to make its way towards a new year.
Some people say that a new year is just another year in their life, a new morning, a new sunrise and like always the beginning of a new day. Perhaps partially they're right, coz sometimes life seems as if nothing has changed, but at times the changes are so drastic, that we can't help but not only notice them but can feel their glare that goes right through us.
Change does take place, a change that brings along a year that hopes for the better.Change is inevitable and I guess essential, coz it preserves us from stagnation. Change changes the way we think, the way we perceive reality and yes with loads of happiness it does bring along the pain of separation, separation from the yesterday that we loved coz a new today is quite unfamiliar, alien to our nature, our likes and dislikes...but I guess thats how life keeps us on our toes, tossing us from the old to a new and giving us a chance to move on.
This new year too will make flowers blossom and trees sway to it's tune...a new tune that would give way to a row of happy days and months in our life..till another new year opens it's eyes :)

Days have passed and months on end,
flowers had bloomed and seasons did blend..
love,loss,blessings and perhaps fear,
rose in the cradle of the passing year...
Now it's time to bloom a new,
A crisp new year is waiting for you :)

A Very Happy New Year to all my fellow bloggers, may the new year bring loads of happiness in your life. Amen :))

A sleepless night!

Its 2:59 at night, well yes precisely 2:59 lolz! Cant sleep but can think.....guess all of us can do that easily :)
Can see the night sky from my window, beautiful spread of black velvet , with a bit of sparkle spread here and there ...yes, you've guessed it right, its the stars!
Tress are swaying with the wind, birds have closed their nests, no popping heads , no chirping, no nothing.....complete silence.
Its Diwali tomorrow, by the way, happy Diwali everyone :)) The night is just waiting for a day of celebration, may be that's why it sees so still....
Today is the 5th of Nov, Friday, year 2010, a few more weeks to go , then a night would come in my life too, that would wait for a festival that would follow the next day....the festival that would celebrate a new beginning.....
I really don't know when months became weeks and now I see weeks changing into days ...strange....is time running or am I trying to catch hold of the few moments left on my mothers side....I would keep meeting her for sure...but is it gonna be the same?????????
Dear Sleepless Night,
Let sleep descend on my minds eye, so that I can wake up to welcome a beautiful tomorrow fast proceeding towards me .....
Good bye Sleepless night coz I feel sleep descending on me ..................................................................

Love thy name is mystery

I really don't understand how one falls in love with a stranger, who till sometime was not only out of our mind, but out of sight as well...it's strange, mysterious, but true...love does strike out of nowhere and leaves us zapped...since for those who believe that they can't fall in love...it's a serious set back... coz they find themselves completely floored, once they slip into the quick sand called love, and then they realise that it wasn't such a bad idea after all... :)
Infatuation comes with many faces, trying hard to convince us that it's love indeed, but fortunately it doesn't hold true to its words for long, since we do get to know the truth behind it as time slips through our hands.
Sympathy too guises itself as love in many relationships, but it loosens it's hold as time passes and we realise that its a feeling that doesn't figure in the real emotion called love and moves away with the harsh tides of life, making us understand that we can't hold on to things that have been jittery since the very beginning.
Then comes face value, that makes us value a certain being and loses it's value when we understand that love isn't about the outer covering...it's a feeling that resides deep within and it's difficult to dig it out until we have the right spade in our hand .... a spade of genuine emotion.
What is it that indicates that we are actually in love??!!!!???
Well.....bells don't ring...stars don't shine brighter.....world doesn't turn upside down.......
But something deep inside us binds itself to that one special person who knocks at our heart and takes it away ..that's when two lives start thriving as one ...
Love is mysterious, no one can ever explain it in words..it something that sinks in with time...that's why, they say, it's very difficult to find true love....and when you find it....you get everything in life...everything that gives one the feeling of being complete :)

Love thy name is mystery,
as mysterious as can be...
we try to solve the puzzle,
and get puzzled with thee...
you give light to those in dark...
and show the way towards eternity,
Love thy name is mystery, as mysterious as can be...

Once fallen in your pit,
one likes to be there forever...
Is it some kind of a prank you play,
with those who're scared of your terror??
Sweeping like waves on the sea shore,
Sitting like a branch on a tree..
You grow within us everyday, and spread on us with blissful glee,
Love, thy name is mystery, as mysterious as can be...

You knock many hearts, you rule many minds,
It's in your clutches one breathes the scent of relief...
It took time to realise the fact...
that you are indeed a pleasant breeze :)
Love, thy name is mystery, as mysterious as can be...