Feeling Lucky

Maybe it’s someone I spoke to some time back who is suffering badly because of a life threatening disease while I thought he was partying in Goa or maybe it’s the Air Asia Plan crash or the blast which happened at Church Street, Bangalore or the book by Dalai Lama which I finished today. But the feeling that I end the year with is “I am lucky!”

How often do we say that to ourselves? Rarely, I guess it’s the way our measures of happiness have changed over the years; we don’t believe in celebrating or enjoying the present moment but are always on a chase / search for the perfect moment.

Coming home before the sun has set from your work (a rarity in today’s world) sitting in the balcony of your own house watching the elegant eagles floating in air, having hot tea & jhal muri with your loved one. As the world outside goes into a tizzy to celebrate the last 4 hrs of 2014, we prefer to just sit & chat and I feel lucky just being able to do this.

As the sun sets on 2014 I end the year surrendering to Gulzar saab’s voice & songs playing from one of my favorite cassette (yes! I still listen to my cassettes in the days of MP3 N MP4) – a double album called “Dil dhoondta hai” which has Gulzar reciting poetry in his gravelly voice followed by a song from his film.

Here’s one - “Kitni choti choti si khwaish leker chal dete hain hum – ek ghar, ek angan, ek chulha, bas itni si zamin our use dhapne  ke liya itna sa aasman….So true guzar sahib! Happy New Year!!

You can listen to the song (not the shairi) from his movie Dil dhoondtaa Hai….here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3TW899qJAQ sung beautifully by Bhupinder.

Wrote on 31/12/2014