Do ur eyesss!!!!

Kohl-lined eyes..animated..I can never break my gaze away.I noticed it for the first time way back when I was still in elementary school. Ive come a long way since then but I still stare...even at the cost of risking rude looks,screeching brakes,stolen glimpses,beauty magazines,faked-up conversations and all that.

...and once I started wearing it on me, there was no looking back. I have held onto it for almost every day of my life.Experimenting with it was as exciting a challenge could possibly be.Yea..I found it powerful.With just the right amount and mix of kajal in its powder,paste and liquid form you could transform from the defined clarity of a classical dancer to a smoky-eyed coy lass to the evil supremacy of a sorceror to a spunky teenager to the untouched wonder of a baby to the dignified woman of the world to the scary devil to the repulsive person you never want to be to one who can carry off a different shaped and sized and coloured eye each day to a person who wants to hide sleep-puffed or tear-shed eyes to the lady who has just walked off after making a mark to ...what not.

I've been through it all and hereby I pronounce "KAJAL ROCKS!!! EXPLORE!!!"

Draw from within

My eyes are shut tight in an attempt to focus on what lay ahead of me. Standing to heels and taking in the fauna towering above me with my mind swaying to the gentle play of breeze against my moist tresses....focussing seemed an impossible feat.I felt rejuvenated and I simply didn't understand.

Being rooted to a place at that moment equalled to me the tyranny inflicted by Hitler.And to be arrested with fire around did not really help to dimnish the overpowering darkness.Fresh air and clean space free from the impact of matter in all the three states seemed close to impossible.Too much of anything good is always "imposed".Fragrance and attention was no exception here....

such treatment to the much sought supreme power?

I knew I was thinking crazy but I had this sudden urge to take HIM into myself and let him experience the world through me.After all the time had come to prove that all that had been bestowed had been put to good effect.I felt ready and eager to take him on the ride to witness..from within me.

Even as I unfolded my palms,I knew I'd given him his rightful throne.

Ironically ,a not particularly- religious person, I was standing in "God's own country".

Joy

And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth's green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
in fighting evils…
Joy is there Everywhere.

- Tagore

( a personal all time favorite)

Where the mind is without fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

- Rabindranath Tagore
"Githanjali"-1910

Play your guitar

“ There are certain things Money can’t buy.
But for everything else…..”

Quite straightforward. The best and lasting elements in life are priceless.

But Hey! Anyone to claim that “certain things” come without a price? Never. More often than not you pitch in things you know you are never going to see or experience again. There are trade-offs. Sometimes you realize what you are bargaining for. Many a times, you don’t.

( Enlightenment at the expense of a beautiful sense of wonder )
( Freedom by placing lives on the altar )
( Endurance with a traumatic trial )
( Friendship when you are willing to open up )
( Love after loving/being lovable )
( Trust only after a risk )
( Maturity and its goodbye innocence )

…..Just that , invariably at the end of it all.. it is worth the buy.

Won’t you be proud of bruised fingers if you could pull the guitar strings 'n' dance to the tune within and the enthusiasm around?