Jeevan nahi mara karta hai ...

Chhip chhip ashru bahaney walo
Moti vyarth lutaney walo
Kuchh sapno ke mar jaaney se
Jeevan nahi mara karta hai

Sapna kya hai, nayan sej par
Soya hua aankh ka paani
Aur tootna hai uska jyon
Jaagey kachchi neend jawani

Geeli umar bananey walo
Doobey bina nahaney walo
Kuchh paani ke bah jaaney se
Saawan nahi mara karta hai

Maala bikhar gai to kya
Khud hi hal ho gai samasya
Anshoo gar neelaam huey toh
Samjho poori hui tapasya

Roothey diwas mananey walo
Fati kameez silaaney walo
Kuchh deepon ke bujh jaaney se
Aangan nahi mara karta hai

Khota kuchh bhi nahi yahan par
Kewal jild badalti pothi
Jaise raat utaar chaandni
Pehne subah dhoop ki dhoti

Vastr badalkar aaney walo
Chaal badalkar jaaney walo
Chand khilono ke khoney se
Bachpan nahi mara karta hai

Laakhon baar gagriyan phooti
Shikan na aayi par panghat par
Laakhon baar kashtiyan doobi
Chahal pahal woi hai tat par

Tam ki umr badhaaney walo
Lau ki aayu ghataaney walo
Laakh kare patjhar koshish par
Upvan nahi mara karta hai

Loot liya maali ne upvan
Lutee na lekin gandh phool ki
Toofaano tak ne chheda par
Khidki band na hui dhool ki

Nafrat galey lagaaney walo
Sab par dhool udaaney walo
Kuchh mukhdon ki naaraazi se
Darpan nahi mara karta hai

For English version: http://poems2remember.blogspot.com/2007/01/jeevan-nahi-mara-karta-hai-life-it.html

It is all in our mind

I observed that I am getting lazier day by day. It occurred to me when I reached office today. Earlier if there was a queue to get in the elevator, I just used to take stairs to the fifth floor (where my office is). Today, I found myself standing in that queue. I felt like a thakela and then there was no way I was taking the elevator. I forced myself to take the stairs and and following thought crossed my mind:

Like many things, I think, being lazy mostly has to do with the imposition of your mind on itself that you are lazy or you can't do this or this will too tiring, followed by the mind accepting its own imposition.

From today onwards, I have decided to abandon the use of elevator whenever possible and deny the proposition that my life-style has gotten stable which is making me lazy.