Phoenix! The Mythological Bird !

I was perhaps 16 when I came to know about this character. And till late it was just an imaginary subject to me. But then life has been wise enough to have helped me to understand its significance. We all have some ambitions, certain dreams and some desires which keep us moving. But then life always has something unique stored for us, some surprises, to keep us excited about them. So, that is how the term 'life' is justified.. If we would have led our lives our ways it would not be as lively as it is otherwise...

Life teaches us everything: to love, to understand, to desire, to accept, to forget, to remember, to admire, to struggle, to make mistakes, to learn, to survive and finally to live...So, above all is to survive and to live. And whether we want or not, we all have to go through those minima (lows) of the life's ever changing graph to reach those maxima (highs). If we accept this fact neither will we curse our lives nor will we stay stagnant. And every time I have come across those 'minima' I have remembered the story of the Phoenix. I had known it to have travelled to the Sun, got burnt but regenerated itself from the ashes..

This is exactly how we are supposed to live. And become a 'Phoenix' when life throws us down. If we keep the 'Phoenix' in us alive we are destined to see the best in life. If we fail, life also fails to gift us with the next surprise.. :)

I promise to myself to keep the 'phoenix' alive in me because I know 'Life is beautiful' and I won't give up till I have seen all those beautiful 'surprises' that my life has stored for me...

Hope you also will...

Dear facebook !

Dear facebook,

I love you because I can see him through you…
I can connect with him through you…
I can know he is still the same, only through you…
I can smile when I see him loving life, through the stories you tell to me…
I love you when you make me smile through those jokes on your walls…
I love you when I get those beautiful inbox messages from my old pals…
I love you because you update me with the best of phases my friends are going through…
I love you because I can share my best moments with them…
And I love you because your blue shades make my heart glow amidst those black and white graphs and pictures on my office computer screen…

With love,
Jashmini… :)

LOVE

I have seen people falling in love,

I have found people crying in love,

I have seen people falling apart in love,

I have seen people comparing love,

I have seen people deciding whom to love,

I have heard people talking about love,

But still, the word most magical, most mysterious and most captivating to me is nothing but LOVE…

If love is to give then why is everyone in love hurt,

If love is so simple then why is it so rare,

If love is sweet then why is it so painful,

And if love is so kind then why the ones in love are the most miserable..

I have known, love should be unconditional,

Then what if someone refuses your love,

Can you still be giving your love?

I am still unsure, I am still wondering what is unconditional love!

If love is to want and to want is to love then what if one’s love is not wanted!

In all these forms I see ‘love’ as complex,

And when it turns complex perhaps there is no love left at all…

I am still waiting to see love in its simplest form,

I am still hopeful of understanding the word ‘love’,

And I know one day I will…

As once I had seen it, as I had felt it, as I had known it to be,

Simple, sweet and kind…

I have walked many miles alone..
I have done many things alone...
But once I walked a few steps with you,
The rest of the journey seems so difficult without you...
I wish you were with me till the end...

'Love was when...'

I fell in love, despite our differences, and once it happened, a new world was created for me…

For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why I don’t want to come out of it…

I don’t want to turn practical…

I don’t want to hear the truth...

I don’t want to see you going away...

I don’t want to hear that Goodbye…

I don’t want to remember the day when we met for the last time…

Please don’t wish me to ‘stay happy’ after that Goodbye, because I felt happiness only while being with you, when happiness is now synonymous with ‘you’...

But yes, I will try to increase the threshold of my pain, if that is what you want me to do…

I will not cry, I will still stay strong if that is what gives you strength…

But please don’t ever say ‘Stay happy’…

I am sorry I can’t, I can’t, I can’t…without you...

And I have realized ‘Love happens only once’… 

It was when I wanted to be with you no matter where…

It was when everything was beautiful around…

It was when ‘U’ always stood before ‘I’…

It was when I tried hard but couldn’t find an answer to ‘why I loved you?’

It was when after every pain my heart whispered ‘he is still there for you’…

It was when I could fight with the world only for you…

It was when I saw faith from so near…

It was when I had a thousand reasons to be sad, but a single reason to be still happy, and the reason were you…

It was when the word ‘love’ appeared so feeble in front of ‘your love’…

It was when I saw myself in you…

It was when you said to me “I know you”…

It was when I knew myself through you…

It was when I understood what love is...

So, please don’t ask me to forget everything and move ahead…

Because your love is my greatest asset for now and shall be forever…