IS IT OK TO BE...TO BE OR NOT TO BE....

Is it ok to be…

To be lost in thoughts and in dreams

Be in trance and ignore the present

And light a smile lasting only for a while?

To take life seriously is foolish for sure

When life in itself isn’t for sure

Life might last for a day more for you

But a day will come when you breathe your last too

Though as I child I always heard:

Do not focus on temporary happiness

Be it the relations you hold or the objects you possess

Remember, it is only the stronger that lasts longer

Now I thoroughly reconsider on all I heard

I enjoyed navaratri with different people in different places

In different ways on different days, played different roles

Each day was special in its own way

While I unwind the days I just passed, I have a new thought blossoming

Telling me “it doesn’t matter who you are and what you do,

All that matters is how you do and how you feel”

MY family, MY friends, MY feelings, MY dreams, MY life

This is where the problem lies

Being one’s biggest boon and also bane

Not realizing life is so short for anything to be called MINE

Constantly I develop relations witheverything that’s not MINE

TO LIVE LIFE NOW IS THE ONLY THING IN LIFE…. so it is ok to be …..

To be lost in thoughts and in dreams

Be in trance and ignore the present

And light a smile lasting only for a while, as

LIFE IS NOW JUST FOR A WHILE

KAMALA BHARADWAJ

7/10/2011