Are we educated enough

Today I saw something which made me very happy but also made me to think a lot.

Today morning, I woke up early around 8 am :P . When I was brushing teeth in balcony, I saw my mess worker, who is a little boy (some 9-10 years old), coming towards my flat. On his way, He switched off all the lights in the corridor. I looked around but there was no one to instruct him to do so.

He is neither paying any electricity bill nor getting any money for doing that. He never went to school in his life to know about Global Warming or limited natural resources. How he knows this. Even he is not mature enough to know all this and if he is that much mature at age 10, when we will be mature. When will we know that if we are lazy enough not to save the electricity and water then at least we should not waste it. I see people around me wasting electricity like anything. They scarcely shutdown their laptops/ desktops, they hardly switch off lights when they leave their room; forget about switching off lights while leaving office, they don’t off the TV, sometimes even they don’t care to switch off Bathroom’s light when they are done with that. I should not exclude myself from the list of the so called well educated people who completed their graduation from one of the best colleges in India, who know about Global Warming, who all know that we have limited natural resources, still waste them.

Perhaps we need to get some education from that little illiterate lad, which we could not get in our 16+ years of school life.

-- जनहित में जारी

Poems

First one to my mom:

मै रोया यहां दूर देस वहां भीग गया तेरा आंचल
तू रात को सोती उठ बैठी हुई तेरे दिल में हलचल
जो इतनी दूर चला आया ये कैसा प्यार तेरा है मां
सब ग़म ऐसे दूर हुए तेरा सर पर हाथ फिरा है मां
जीवन का कैसा खेल है ये मां तुझसे दूर हुआ हूं मै
वक़्त के हाथों की कठपुतली कैसा मजबूर हुआ हूं मै
जब भी मै तन्हा होता हूँ, मां तुझको गले लगाना है
भीड़ बहुत है दुनिया में तेरी बाहों में आना है
जब भी मै ठोकर खाता था मां तूने मुझे उठाया है
थक कर हार नहीं मानूं ये तूने ही समझाया है
मै आज जहां भी पहुंचा हूँ मां तेरे प्यार की शक्ति है
पर पहुंचा मै कितना दूर तू मेरी राहें तकती है
छोती छोटी बातों पर मां मुझको ध्यान तू करती है
चौखट की हर आहट पर मुझको पहचान तू करती है
कैसे बंधन में जकड़ा हूँ दो-चार दिनों आ पाता हूँ
बस देखती रहती है मुझको आँखों में नहीं समाता हूँ
तू चाहती है मुझको रोके मुझे सदा पास रखे अपने
पर भेजती है तू ये कह के जा पूरे कर अपने सपने
अपने सपने भूल के मां तू मेरे सपने जीती है
होठों से मुस्काती है दूरी के आंसू पीती है
बस एक बार तू कह दे मां मै पास तेरे रुक जाऊंगा
गोद में तेरी सर होगा मै वापस कभी ना जाऊंगा



This is all my dear friends:

तू कभी बिछड़ा नहीं और तू मिला भी नहीं
पर मुझे तुझसे कोई शिकवा नहीं ग़िला भी नहीं

तू भले मुझसे ख़फ़ा है और तू दूर भी है
मगर तुझसे ऐ दोस्त दिल को फ़ासिला भी नहीं

मै कैसे दिखलाऊं तुझको दिल की सच्चाई
एक अरसे से तू मुझसे गले मिला भी नहीं

वो एक वक़्त था जब दिल से दिल मिले थे यहाँ
ये एक वक़्त है बातों का सिलसिला भी नहीं

तू मुझे कुछ समझ, मुझको तो तुझसे प्यार है दोस्त
तुझ सा कोई ढ़ूंढ़ा नहीं मिला भी नहीं

मुझे पता है मुझ में लाख कमी है शायद
ये बेरुख़ी मगर दोस्ती का सिला भी नहीं

कभी कभी मुझे लगता है भूल जाऊं तुझे
मगर ये सच है भूलने का हौंसिला भी नहीं

तू खुश रहे ये दुआ तेरी कसम रोज़ करता हूँ
और अपने ग़म का मुझे अब कोई ग़िला भी नहीं

बस इक उम्मीद है तुझ को गले लगाऊं कभी
के वो एहसास मुझे फ़िर कहीं मिला भी नहीं

Found these two poem very interesting.. hope you will also like them (courtesy: Rohit Jain...he wrote them nd tarun..Who shared them)

GOA TRIP : A nice learning experience

We (me and 4 other colleagues from Oracle) planned for Goa trip sometimes back but 3 of them canceled their plan at very last moment so I too decided to cancel it but the other person was very keen to visit Goa. Bus tickets were already booked and as the plans were canceled at very last moment, those were not refunded and he tried his best to convince me to go with him. Ego played a big role here. Actually we were very excited about Goa trip from last one month and in office, some office-mates were jealous about it. So when it got canceled, it was like their dream come true and they wished us HAPPY GOA TRIP while leaving the office. So ego got hurt and and and ....... :(

So we both decided to go Goa. Bus was scheduled at 6.30 and once it was decided it was 7.30pm. We called Buswala and came to know that bus was already 15-16 kms away. It was almost impossible to catch the bus but we decided to give it a try. We called the Buswala in every 5 min and made him to stop the bus for around an hour. When we got in the bus, everyone was staring at us as they wanted to kill us. We reached Goa around 2 hrs late thanks to our madness.

We went to colva beach and took some rest. We hired a bike(bullet). But bike was not in good shape (brake and gear were not functioning properly) so we decided to change it and hire activa. But bikewala was a big time harami, he took 200 bucks more. Also he gave a helmet which was smelling bad and he was not having the other. So we decided to drive without helmet and phir wahi hua jiska dar tha. We were caught by traffic police with two charges: no helmet and no driving license. We were not having enough money to bribe them. So I had to go to ATM which was around 5km away from that place and other person stayed there with them. We ended up with them after wasting around 1 hr and 300 bucks.

Then we moved ahead but soon caught in heavy rain and again had to wait around 1hr. Once we reached Bagha beach it was too late and we decided to go back to hotel and come again tomorrow.

Next day was smooth till evening. We went to a beach and enjoyed the great Indian ocean, came back to the colva. I met with Raka there. Around 7 pm , we moved to Bagha again and and then the worst happened.

We tried Tito’s club but only couples were allowed there. So we tried some other decent club with help of some local guy over there. He ensured that the club is very decent with decent girls. As we entered there after paying 800 bucks outside, one of the prostitutes pulled me near to her to dance. I was totally in shock and scared. We were out in less than 5 minutes.

Then we reached to an open restaurant at Bagha beach and spent time there till 3 am. Our fate was still playing with us; we got our first starter after 3 hrs. But somehow we enjoyed there as music and mass was good there. We went back to our Activa to leave and came to know that fate has given one more slap at our face as someone stole that bad smelling helmet. More to that, there was a fear of being caught by traffic police again. We were back in our hotel by 4.30 am with bad mood. Next morning, we had our breakfast and took the cab for the station. Next day we were in Hyderabad with little fun and lots of learning.

Learning:

• Don’t go in so called decent club if you don’t know about it.
• Plan it proper. Better not to make plans after reaching there.
  
• Don’t stay at Colba beach; I think it’s the worst beach in Goa. I will recommend Bagha beach
• And last but not the least; don’t visit a place like Goa in a group of two unless the other person is not your spouse or gf/bf or you will end up your trip in taking snaps of each other.