JAI HO!

JAI HO!
The imli trees, laden with their new and humid leaves, are now suffering more damage than during the strongest winds of the monsoon. A koel perched on a gulmohar is trying to sing a song; the wind blew its feathers till they stood on their end.

The end is certainly drawing closer. It is a sad and hopeless moment for me. The sad and hopeless obstacles in life are welcome in a sense for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that fate loves to throw our way. These obstacles make me realise that losing is more satisfying than winning.

Winning the battle is not always the goal. Fighting against the obstacles has been the best part. An encounter with the obstacles taught me how much I love her. As my sight grew accustomed to the first blinding halo kindled about me by love, I began to perceive what a strait I was in. The dire conditions make me wish I had never known her, but I retract my wish the very next moment considering it to be a brutal one. My infatuation has been a great experience. I thank Allah for this. This has proved to be the strongest in my life.

My life is like a Bollywood movie---the first half without any action or conflict, and the second when things come to a sudden head. It is in the second part of my life that things have begun to happen. Life began to move on the wheels of fate, I felt the strong passion of love, and I learnt several secrets that pushed my emotions to the zenith. It is time to bury these secrets burning in my heart as memoirs of some good days. They have served to create lesions in my life. These lesions are not obvious, but they hurt when they are touched. They are occasionally touched by time, and I do wince with the pain. The nuts and bolts of time shall eventually tighten their hold on me, I know. I shall become the slave of my destiny and so shall my life.

My life has a lot in store for me, I know. The exact composition of my future shall remain a mystery till time unfurls its red carpet for me. I would welcome the surprises that fate throws in to my share. I sometimes wish I knew what surprises await me at the other end of the rainbow. I console myself with the belief that pleasure known beforehand is half-wasted. The very element of surprise is the soul of the drama of life. The latticed windows of life let through huge quantums of surprise through them everyday. We only have to be there to enjoy all the surprises. Life says 'Jai ho!' at each and every step, we only have to lend an ear to life.