Reminiscence

Dreams Shattered

2009-02-23T09:09:00.000-08:00

It was a Thursday, when I was traveling for Mumbai, to join a software firm for training. Lot more fresh bloods were joining along with, hence lots more dreams. It was bunch of toppers, since the firm was very much selective in terms of fresher. I remember we were toppers from Kerala, Karnataka, TN & Goa.

Most of us were not so financially well off. Seeing the facilities over there, we were in fact proud of what we achieved. And, slowly the fun grasped the moment. Just to give a glimpse, we were 150+ and it was a full time fun. Along with training we used to take out time for friendship, outings, late night chats, shopping, sight seeing, parties, participation in cultural activities and lot more. Most of our salaries were exhausted before the month end.

It was here we made a mistake.(?) All of us dreamt. Dreamt of their future… dreamt of a smooth life…dreamt of friendship… We also enjoyed the life we were in… to the core. Most of us had got gifts for our family members. It was a proud moment for us. In the period of recession we were working, where most of our college friends were still waiting for their joining dates. It was a proud moment for our parents, where they used to boast about us genuinely that we are not affected by recession. It was a proud moment for everyone around; people used to say the best one always survive.

It was a Thursday again. Three days later we were supposed to join the firm after completion of training. I was with one of my friend, and had just booked a flat for ourselves. Few minutes later I got the news of our termination. It was a shock. We didn’t believe at first. But, it was confirmed to us in minutes via a termination mail. Reason was recession. Within no time our world had changed.

Now, the world around us is different. All we get a consolation from the friends whom we helped to get placed. Our parents are shocked and helpless at the situation. We know what’s going on in their minds but still they smile and say us, “Don’t worry!”. We friends have departed; All of them alone and sad. We can’t meet our college friend as we don’t want to be a matter of pity. There are people who left their other offers for job believing on the firm. And with two offers they are still jobless. Life now is still, not moving an inch also. And the days of mending resumes and forwarding to all sources we know, are back again. We used to suggest our friends and give them career advices, but now we take it. We were supposed to be a financial help to family but now we are burdening them back. This hurts. And of all these what we miss a lot is the 3 months of training, together with friends, fun, no tension in life.. That’s just a memory now.. ; A sweet memory for bitter present.

Personally, I don’t blame anyone for the life we are in now. I also don’t say that our pain is more than other who are hit by recession. Its all a matter of fate. I know my suffering friends are strong enough to push back the pain and fight to gain momentum. I wish all of them good luck and just want to say, “Friend, just prove that best one always survive, All the best!”.

Fortune favors the brave

2008-10-06T04:40:00.001-07:00

Blessed are those, named acme achiever,

Hailing success and renown forever,

Whose every hour is a golden hour,

And each step a success lever.

But, reality of being blessed is simply based

Inspection would lead in fortune traced,

The major key is effort and action,

Of which one should be fully laced.

Success, of which, if you get a hold,

It may get your life mould

As what follows success, is success

Soon, every second has influence of gold.

Not very tough, making success way,

Go on crossing obstacles that lay

Task becomes easier with each step,

And impossible is your routine one day

So fiercely take up steps to succeed,

Blow off problems in way to proceed,

Bond with all your ups and downs

After all, grain flourishes on sowing seed.

Once you start bold with action,

Embodied with effort at every section,

Winds of success, blow your way,

Refreshing you at every junction.

A tiger starves if remain in cave,

Don’t shed lazy and dig own grave,

Let you flow in roaring wave,

As fortune favors only the brave… only the brave.

उम्मीद

2008-10-06T03:46:00.000-07:00

उम्मीद के दिये के तले

जो बैठा गूढ़ अँधेरा है,

ओ मेरे दिल-ऐ-नादान

तेरा भी वहीँ बसेरा है!

क्यूँ व्यर्थ की आस है,

मेरे लिए भी सवेरा है,

जिस सुबह की बात करे तू,

उसपे ज़ोर न तेरा है न मेरा है।

क्या पता उस रोज़,

न सूरज उगे, न सवेरा हो,

सूरज की किरणों के ऊपर,

बादलों का डेरा हो,

रोशन फिजाओं की जगह,

घनघोर फैला अँधेरा हो।

खुशियों ने संगीत नहीं,

गम की विलाप सुरा हो।

उम्मीद के अश्व पे आरोह कर,

संभलने की चाह न करना,

झूठी आस लिए दिल में,

ख़ुद को गुमराह मत करना,

जाने कितने ही घर,

इसकी आंधी में उड़ गये,

बिखर जाए जो घर तेरा भी,

अफ़सोस कर आह न करना।

In Lap of Nature

2008-09-26T06:12:00.000-07:00

Tsunami, The rain of thunders
Often inject me with Wonders
About the two extremes of nature,
One filling love other wonders...
One one hand, its life source
On other its the deadly force
To blow off lives as leaves
During its oscillating course
The Dreadful, deadly scene
Of deaths which has been
Often querries with tear flow
Why nature is so mean?
And queastions an innocent lad
A sweet smile with chin, he had
Which he lost in tsunami hunger
Asks, Am I that bad?
The eight year chap never knows
That his happiness has froze
Since the devil tsunami came
And, ate his parents once it rose...
Lost everything he looks in haste
To each & everyone as a guest
In his new dark family, where
Sorrow is to eat & tears to taste...
His senses are lost even to smile
The blunder closed his grace file
Sad and lone, he has to walk
And the way seems long as Nile
He cries due to hunger at times
With song for life, it rhymes
And its nature striking again
All the pain it sublimes
And finally the mother nature
In its fully motherly posture
Will guide the boy to survival
Oh what a fluctuating gesture...
Its nature which hurts or kills
And revives you again with motherly pills
After all, for all love & care
You finally have to pay the bills...
The dual nature is still a mystery
Waxing & wanning was since history
When things are out of range
It strikes and take the revenge
But, then its motherhood play again
To get back whatever lost... to regain...!