Not for money. Yeah

List three jobs you’d consider pursuing if money didn’t matter.

1. Tour guide –

I would travel and tell stories. Mostly interesting and authentic but few sprinkles of fantasy – made up and yet fantastic

I will meet people, make lifetime memories for them

Take pictures for them. The kinds that they would laugh and remember

2. Guy at ‘Subway’ food counter –

I would watch people through so many choices and have fun watching the customers reel under the weight of making those mundane but tough decisions.

Watching few who would know so clearly and yet others who would pretend they knew.

There would be few who would just let me decide their fate, and then regret silently.

Or someone who would shout and confuse me with their ever changing mind and then regretting not so silently

I might get irritated by the one who would be suspicious and untrusting. Who might even measure if 6” bread was actually 6” long. But that would be fun too.

And yes it would be fun to wear those stars on the chest and the caps. The Best Salesman of July or The top employee of the Leap Year 😄

2. RJ

I would love to play my song and sway with the ears across the breadth of the FM channel

I would love to hear stories of the people who would tune and dial in

It would be fun to feel the smile on the face when you play that exact song which was in their minds. The one that resonates with them.

To be alone yet making people not feel lonely

Creature of the sea

I am a creature 
of the sea
Dwelling in the ocean
Filled with salty tears
of sorrow and grief

I rise to the surface
For a quick long breath 
of the skimming winds
Laden with smiles
of joy and happiness

Long enough
I stay
Soaking in happiness 
Only to dive deeper
Into depth of despair

And the cycle 
goes on endlessly 
of short bouts of happiness
And then the unending 
expanse of sorrow

Till I find happiness
In the salty waters 
Dissolved and hidden
distilled out 
by my new found gills

Now I dwell
In the sea 
And in the winds above
Free of despair
Equally in bliss

Kuch der aur. Sona chahta hoon

कुछ पढ़ना नहीं

लिखना चाहता हूँ 

और थोड़ी देर

सोना चाहता हूँ 

…

अगर रास्ते में हूँ तुम्हारे 

तो सरका दो 

या बैठो मेरे साथ 

चुप चाप, इत्मिनान से 

…

वक्त को भरना नहीं 

गुज़रते हुए देखना चाहता हूँ 

बारिश से बचना नहीं 

जी भर के भीगना चाहता हूँ 

…

अगर कुछ छींटे

तुमपर गिर रहीं हो 

तो अपनी खिड़कियां

कस कर बंद करलो 

…

या आओ

आसमानों की बातें सुनने 

जो बूँदें

टिप टिपाते कह रहीं हैं

…

फूलों पतों से 

हल्के हवा के झोंके से 

काग़ज़ के उड़ते हुए

टुकड़ों से

क़तार में खड़ी

गाड़ियों से 

भीड़ में चलती

इंसानियत से

…

उनकी कहनी

उनकी ज़ुबानी

सुनना चाहता हूँ

…

सबसे मिलना चाहता हूँ 

जीने का हर मौक़ा 

ढूँढना चाहता हूँ 

…

मरने कर हर डर 

मिटाना चाहता हूँ 

…

ज़िंदा हूँ

बस जीना चाहता हूँ 

थोड़ी देर और

बेफ़िक्र सोना चाहता हूँ

I would rather fly

How often do you walk or run?

I hate to run

I am ok to walk

I would rather fly

…

But my mind runs

And most of the times it flies

Unhindered, untiringly

Always on a fantasy flight

…

Maybe we met

Somewhere in the blue skies

…

I am off again

Let’s meet

Up there

In the fluffy white clouds

I am the leader

Do you see yourself as a leader?

I am a leader

If I have a follower

It’s in the eyes of the followers

That I should reflect

That is where

the acceptance lies

…

But yes,

I have the will to lead

The charisma, dynamism and character

My followers can’t give me that

Just like a magnet

It’s magnetism, is seen

in the iron fillings

that get attracted

Yet the magnetism lies in the magnet

And not in the filling

…