I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson – 1850

સવારે
ફલાવર વાઝમાં
મલપતાં ફુલો જોઇને ઉત્સાહમાં
મેં
બારીના પડદા ખોલ્યો તો –
ડાળે કાંટાને વળગી એક પંતગિયું
ધ્રુસકે ધ્રુસકે રડતું હતું.

-પ્રીતમ લાખાણી
Translation:

In morning,

I saw smiling and grooming flowers in the vase,

and I opened the curtains of my window with happiness.

And then I saw a butterfly,

crying with grief, holding the abandoned thorned branch.

Love the ad. the music. the video. all of it.

I am thinking about …  why we always crave for things which we know we can’t have…

I said … “love while you can, its the feeling that makes you feel like you’re on top of the world. The older you get, the lesser you trust on that emotion..”

I want to … quit the rat race as soon as I can.

I wish to … earn a lot and lot of money, before quitting the rat race.

I wonder …  why I shouldn’t quit my job now and own a business completely.  After all, how long can I be a bachelorette????

I regret… nothing in life.

I am... Ekta [corny i know!].

I dance… Naay! Erm, Yaay! Some times.. When i’m in THAT mood.

I sing… worse than Himesh Reshmia.

I cry… for silly heartaches…

I am not always … Crazy. I fail at that too sometimes..

I make with my hands… good nice dinner.

I write… nonsense and sometimes sense too.

I confuse… others with what I say and what I do. Hypocrisy???? that’s an overloaded word for that

I need… someone to make my day and of course night; with the right amount of sarcasm, sense of humor and immense extreme emotions.

Reshma, at her blog, said this…. 

Strange world, when you can be soulmates with someone halfway across the world… and not know the name of your neighbours.

And since the time i read it first, i had been thinking about it. a lot that is. and there was no way i could deny that it was indeed very much truth.

may be this is when I really started to belive in the term ”World as a global village”.

… now the cynicism in the statement has gotten even worse, isn’t it?