Monday, August 11, 2008

A Smile...


Its been quite some time, since I last posted here. So will, probably start with the origin of this post.

I was sitting with a group of friends the other day, discussing things, meeting some old Friends...I as usual wasn't talking much.....a gentleman who was part of the group and knew about my new found habit of blogging, commented " Abe chup kyon hai....oh...lagta hai soch raha hai..phir blog par likhega...yeh aisa kyon hai..woh aisa kyon hai...." which was followed by a roar of laughter.....

I sat there quietly..smiling (also realising the fact that I will use this bit of conversation in my next post), coming back to the conversation I wasn't talking because I found the guy we were talking to very 'fake'....a bluff of the highest order...

"I just can't talk to this guy, he is so fucking fake, better I cant even stand him", is what I had said.

A couple of days later, I was on work...on a shoot in Roop Nagar near North Campus, Delhi University..

I was almost done with the case study..I was shooting .

The final exchanges of Hi's and Hellos was happening... a request for coffee was quietly turned down by me, she asked for the time the story was going to go on Air, I had to leave now..was getting late.

I remember it very well, after the final handshakes, my mouth on their own curled into a smile, A smile I hadn't intended. I looked at the lady, and then curled the lips further to form a bigger smile...a smile as fake as the word fake itself....'fake of the highest order'

I was doing something, which I hated the most...I couldn't believe myself...but there I was...smiling for nothing..which didn't mean anything....

The word 'fake', came later to my mind while we were driving back to Archana. But this time it wasn't the word which I was thinking of, rather the sentence which I had said that day, "I just can't talk to this guy, he is so fucking fake, better I cant even stand him"

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Wish......


Somewhere I hear a scream, sounds familiar.
But familiarity has deceived so much,
that looking in that direction is fearful.
Screams can be painful, they can be fearful

Somewhere down the line I lost myself
I lost me.
Lost a dream, lost an identity
Now empty handed, disgraced, remorseful,
my life crashing down on me.
I just wish, I wasn’t I.

But wishes don’t comes true,
atleast for me.
If they were to come true
then I wouldn’t have been I.
empty handed, disgraced, remorseful
A lost soul, a sorry figure.

A lost soul I am
Lost because I was searching for someone
Forgot that the world doesn’t give what you search for,
not even love.
But then you don’t have to find love
It finds its own way.
Maybe I am wronged, maybe I am wrong
Maybe that’s the reason,
I don’t wish to be I
empty handed, disgraced, remorseful
searching for someone, who never existed.

They say that I shouldn’t stop,
Shouldn’t stop fighting the world
Making my existence felt.
But is it necessary.
The fight, making myself felt to everyone,
Can’t I be I
An empty handed, disgraced, remorseful, lost soul,
Just wishing to be lost, wishing that he wouldn’t be he.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Second day at the blog....

So I sit on the machine....login to this blog....as I have nothing to do (my shoot is lined up for 6 30 in the evening )...Looking forward to this shoot, as its my own idea (Cant help being a narcissist)....last night i was with a friend...who had returned from Dubai on a holiday...we were just chatting away to glory....over a plate of tandoori chicken....

Suddenly he said...Faisal we have been together for more than 20 years....do you think you know me completely...I looked at him....taken aback by the question...but realised how important that question was..."Do you know him Faisal?", Mr. Faisal thought for a couple of seconds....and he realised that he did not...in fact....Mr. Friend also did not know Faisal (I think ..he doesnt)....

20 years...we did not know each other.... and we were suppose to be best friends......the topic changed...as soon as the chicken got over...(either the chicken was too small or we ate like monsters).....but this thought lingered on.....

Two humans who have been together since childhood...shared everything...each and every small detail of life...who know that whenever in trouble....the person to fall back ...is that person......

But the reality was that we still did not know each other.....