Unpublished Articles

I have this recurring dream quite often. The dream concentrates around a couple - maybe not exactly in love with each other, but there necessarily being a difference in the maturity levels of the boy and the girl.

The boy is a romantic always ready to buy a dream, generally dreams that don’t materialize. The girl on the other hand, is mature, sensible and sensitive too.

Somehow a series of incidents have led the boy's patience to wane and now no longer can he believe in his dreams. Life has become more of a duty for him, rather than an ornament. Somewhere he feels he lacks the enthusiasm to live. At such a time, there walks into his life, this girl who makes him dream again. She teaches him the importance of life, of the small beautiful things in life. Of how there can be positive-ness in his life. She induces courage, a newfound optimism in his life. He has just somewhere started to believe that good things can happen in his life.

And at such a time, the girl has to leave. She has to go where her Destiny beckons her and in that attempt cannot stay back for long. At such a time, parting lips that feign, sing songs of love as in follows :

The boy says :

Abhi na jaon chodhkar, ke dil abhi bhara nahin,

abhi abhi to aai ho, bahar banke chayee ho,

hawa jara mehak to le, yeh dil jara behak to le,

yeh shaam dhal to le jara, yeh din sambhal to le jara,

main thodi der jee to loo, nashe ke ghoot pe to loo,

abhi to kuch kaha nahin, abhi to kuch suna nahin,

abhi na jaon chodkar, yeh dil abhi bhara nahin

The girl knows she cannot wait. She has to go ahead in her life. She knows she has helped the boy in at least a small way and has confidence that he would be able to have a better life, but somewhere, somehow her mind too is in a dilemma. She understands that the boy will find it difficult, but yet the aim of her short meeting is over. That which she wanted to convey, she has conveyed. Now, she tries to convince him that

Sitare jhilmila uthe, chirag jagmaga uthe,

bas ab na mujhko rokana, na badhke raah tokana,

gar main ruk gayee abhi, to ja na paongi kabhi,

yehi kahoge tum sada, ke dil abhi nahin bhara,

jo khatma ho isi jagah, yeh aisa silsila nahin..

That is the instance, when the boy realizes that he is love. He just cannot imagine a life sans the girl. The importance of the girl in his life is what disallows him from taking her departure lightly and then he breaks into

Adhoori aas chodke, adhoori pyaas chodke,

jo roj yoohi jaogi to kis tarah nibhaogi

ki zindagi ki raah main, jawan dilon ki chaha main,

kai maqam aayenge, jo humko aajmaoge,

boora na mano baat ka, yeh pyaar hain gila nahin....

"I love you, please don’t mind". That’s the beauty of his love.