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Posted Jul 25, 2013 | Realisation | 848 Views   (Updated Jul 25, 2013 11:05 AM)

Arrest at "the 13th Floor"

I find myself chained to a chair on the 13th floor. An Old Man who is sitting across me on a bigger chair, introduces himself as the Judge. Couple of familiar faces who once claimed (read blamed) being in love with me are sitting together on the... I find myself chained to a chair on the 13th floor. An Old Man who is sitting across me on a bigger chair, introduces himself as the Judge. Couple of familiar faces who once claimed (read blamed) being in love with me are sitting together on the right side trying to avoid any eye contact with me. Prosecutor sitting on the left is busy reading the charges imposed on me.On conclusion, Judge gives me a dirty look but out of obligation ask me if I want to say anything before he gives his judgment. I pause for a moment to think if it’s even worth saying anything infront of people who already are convinced about the fact that I am a criminal. Still I chose to speak: Long Long ago 'Loving was a crime'. But we have come a long way and today I realise that not loving someone who loves you, is a crime. You are not only expected to love but also actually ordered to love them back and if you don’t you are called insensitive, selfish, self-centered human being. We have come a longway from "I don’t love you but we can be friends" to "If you don’t love me you loose me as a friend" ... Now we don’t think twice to let go off years long beautiful friendship because we have fallen in love with a friend, who does not share the same feeling. Is it mandatory to love back? One should force fully generate feeling? ? Probably. Why the person who has never failed to be a great friend has to loose a friend because they have fallen for them. This is not it.. They are called insensitive.. Selfish and are troubled to an extent that they start considering it a crime, to be nice to people. They wonder where did they go wrong and what they shouldn't have done. Then they go back in a shell and never want to come out of it. They question their own faith and belief. They don’t feel like making new friends in fear of ending up in the similar situation. The most hurting part of this is to lose out of something that you have for something that you suddenly want. It is you who has turned selfish, self-centered and insensitive. And then you get busy with endless attempts of hurting them. You blame them for destructions that you do to yourself. You hate them and conspire against them and take revenge by taking away things and people they love. You start feeling relieved and happy seeing them in pain. Just when you feel this...I want to ask each one of you, did you claim in the beginning that you loved them??? Nobody answered neither they looked moved with my speech (read confrontations). Unlike films, people do not go through transformations and self-realization within three hours even if they did within they will put up a false ego and will never accept thier fault. Everyone remained poised while I was found guilty of charges of not falling in love with people who fell in love with me. Sigh ! Read More
Posted Jun 05, 2011 | General | 1262 Views   

Of Life Lessons and Loss !

‘Every coin has two sides’. Most of us have used the phrase consciously or subconsciously at various juncture of our life. But how well we understood it is what I doubt. Cause if we actually did, then we would have been a happie... ‘Every coin has two sides’. Most of us have used the phrase consciously or subconsciously at various juncture of our life. But how well we understood it is what I doubt. Cause if we actually did, then we would have been a happier person in most of our days. This phrase guides us to be Non-Judgmental and non-opinionated. Remember the lines from the classic movie “Anand” – Hum sab to rang-manch ki kathputhliya hai jahan panah jinki dor upar wale ke hathon mein bandhi hai”. What it actually meant was that a Human is an outcome of a situation (here ‘situation’ personify ‘GOD’) so you can’t really judge people by one situation.Now recollect the last person who has cause any kind of damage to you and try to recollect the situation or event leading them to that very moment. You will be surprised to find the answer. I have practiced being non-judgmental and a lateral thinker most of my life to avoid moral policing. At times I have wondered, “What is so right about right or so wrong about wrong”. But never received any convincing answer. Everyone start their statement with ‘as per the society..” But societal laws are more or less like “Principles of Management”, which are flexible and changes on people whims and fancy. So, why should I go by the norm, which is not full proof? Anyways! Discussion on society is a never-ending trail. Crux of the argument is that I don’t feel the need to waste my time on choosing between Right or Wrong. Forgiveness is something I have tried practicing over a period of time. I have learnt it the hard way but still sometimes I feel the urge to “kill someone” without a second thought. Then the very next moment I feel the need to forgive my self for making numerous mistakes. I have experienced, learnt and tried to memorize the lesson with each mistake to avoid mistakes next time around.Alas I can only remember the lesson after I repeat the same mistake again. So I chose to memorize the lessons by-heart and I never made those mistakes again. Simply Cause I kept giving away the similar chances life offered me. Then I recollect being called looser, coward for not taking any chance. And when I do and fall on my face, I am asked why do I even take up things when I am not sure of handling them.Everyone who has been in a similar situation, complained that people never had time for them. But people did turn up for me. They gathered around, sat and warmly blamed me that ‘I am responsible for my own miseries’. And while leaving they recommended me to get my issues (Issues?) solved through Deepak Chopra, Robin Sharma, Shiv Khera of the world. But amidst all these trials and error; though I wasn’t really sure where my life was heading, I surely knew where I don’t want to go (read grow). And that I believe is the most important answer that we all should have. Apart from that there is no set rule to “live a successful life” . It’s all about making choices and attempts as you move forward in life. And most importantly to take call on whatever is bothering you, sooner than someone else points that out to you. After all its your life don’t be an audience to it. So solve your problem on your own without wasting time and take up the next ‘project’ which life offers and give your best.Sitting back and sulking never helped anyone (read me). Coming back to what I said above “every coin has two sides”.. You can only take care of one at a time. When you are right in your own eyes at the same moment for someone you might be completely wrong. Like my Mom always told me that when one half of the earth is lit-up with sun at the same time the other half is completely dark. So no matter how hard you try you cannot keep everyone happy with your own decisions. So in that case how do you take a call? Of course by what seems right to you that very moment. {What kind of question Mr. writer is this? You surely can’t choose what seems wrong thinking that for others it will be right} So I repeat, there is no set rule of living a successful and happy life. It’s all about taking chances and making attempts. And to accept a simple fact that we are purely ‘Humans’ there are certain things that are beyond our control. Another important fact is that celebrating birthdays is fun. Cause you celebrate growing up, learning, experiencing and a changing. With every experience we grow a little, change a little, and our innocence is lost a little. While we celebrate growing up we mourn the dead of innocence within us. But that’s Life! The sooner we realize this fact; better we can live the rest of life. Now go ahead fly away !! Read More
Posted Apr 03, 2010 | Question | 1146 Views   

13th Floor - Do You ?

My fingers feel the jagged walls, while I walk down the 13th floor through the dark staircase. I have lost my way, I assume or probably I lie to myself to keep erect my mountain of ‘Ego’. I press my foot longer than usual in futile... My fingers feel the jagged walls, while I walk down the 13th floor through the dark staircase. I have lost my way, I assume or probably I lie to myself to keep erect my mountain of ‘Ego’. I press my foot longer than usual in futile attempt of not making any noise while I walk in that dark corridor every alternate day. I breathe gently too, with fear of someone hearing me. I am known pretty well in an around and I had to live up to certain reputation too. Reputation, built by me. Though no longer I identify myself in the old mirror but people remind me how I am and I am supposed to behave. I reach the door which isn’t my ‘destination’ no matter how much I would have wanted it to be. I take a sigh of relief when I notice a lock hanging on that door. I sit there quietly gazing at the door. Sometimes I feel the grills which guard that wooden door; I hope you haven’t got them fixed for me, so that I don’t intrude. I fear touching the door. Am I not supposed to wish seeing you ? but its otherwise. I pray for your absence when I quietly walk in that dark corridor. Sometime when my prayers are not answered and you are actually in there. I sit there freezed. I feel the light which licks through the spaces below ur door ,.. When ur shadows cut the lights… I shiver … but I stay .. I don’t understand myself but I still do this ritual almost every alternate day. Do you ever get to know? Do you feel someone crossing outside ur door? Days, I ensure to keep myself busy … I have presumed again or probably I lie to myself to curb a need which u have created in my life. But Nights, when my unnecessarily kept gathering and parties are over .. and I lie amidst the dirty room of empty beer can’s and half filled liquor glasses… I have nothing else to do then to think about you. That’s the only moment I curse Mobile technology … when I can’t call to hear ur voice with fear of being caught. I wish for those Landlines days .. When no one would ever know till you open ur mouth and you can call endlessly to hear their voices. And when I can’t do that, I keep gazing up in the skies. Sharing endlessly how much I miss you. Somehow I have started believing in all the fairytales funda’s which mom gave me of talking through stars.. Do u ever look up in the skies to watch stars? Do they tell you what I feel? You might find all this funny but I don’t laugh at it. Sometime I wish to stop you and tell everything. But then I wonder why you would wanna know. Becaz with each passing day I feel.. My need in ur life is fading out. I know everything that has happened I am the only cause.. But I wonder? Which one is the bigger fault? Loving you? or Letting you go ? ? Boloh ? Read More
Posted Mar 03, 2010 | LoVe | 1017 Views   

++ I haVe miNe Too ++

She awaits outside my door, as I have pulled the curtain on my glass pain .. to be honest on her face. She feels insulted but she hasn’t left me yet … she wouldn’t at her age.. she is still the one believing in emotions, love, hurt .. she hasn’t... She awaits outside my door, as I have pulled the curtain on my glass pain .. to be honest on her face. She feels insulted but she hasn’t left me yet … she wouldn’t at her age.. she is still the one believing in emotions, love, hurt .. she hasn’t grown numb yet .. like me ..like some of us ‘the grey haired creatures’. When I do not open the door, she pushes in the red paper through the door .. it has the list of complains on how I have not lived upto her expectation ,… she is sure that after reading this I will open the door hug her and let her break in my arms … wet my shoulders .. and kiss dry her cheeks .. but I don’t … I don’t .. she waits in that dull yellow painted corridors .. nope they ain’t sunshine .. They look like an autumn who are no prelude to springs. I hear her breaths but it doesn’t melt me in anyways .. Probably, I have overgrown of chickens … Probably … or I want to be perceived that ways .. Whatever .. but I am not opening the door .. not for her anymore … She slips in another sheet .. it reads “You will never understand what it means to be hurt” …. Aah … I wish I can bang open the door and say … “ I don’t wanna understand and I don’t want to know your problem.. nobody wants to know .. becaz I have my own and its enough to keep me BUSY and so does everyone else’s!!” No One has Time !! Read More
Posted Feb 12, 2010 | General | 935 Views   

No "YOU TURN"

I curl up … lying awake on bed… Legs feeling each other. I constantly rub my forearms to get rid of the Goosebumps.. Its Febuary, but its not a chilly winter of Delhi. Still I feel a rush within. A secretion which isn’t sexual.... I curl up … lying awake on bed… Legs feeling each other. I constantly rub my forearms to get rid of the Goosebumps.. Its Febuary, but its not a chilly winter of Delhi. Still I feel a rush within. A secretion which isn’t sexual. That’s everyday midnight ritual. ! I feel drained as if someone sucks me off… I don’t find the nail marks neither the claws But Blood licks. I hear no applauses for my performance anymore I see someone sitting there, among the 1000 red lustrous empty chair . The empty auditorium should reverberate with one applause.. Aah ! Someone pulls the curtain in Plethora Behind that transparent red silk curtain. Someone waits for me .. anticipating the performance to be Last. But I Go on … Time again, like the old pendulum running the same marathon Tick Tok Tick Tok.. ! And ‘You’ … Sit there aware of the road I travel daily .. Smirking at my Ignorance of other routes I second your thought .. Umm “I use too second it” 2 second before.. No its not cheating.. Enlightenment happens overnight. And as I said it’s almost midnight. So I have converted my mind… I don’t reckon the same about me anymore.. I am altering the path and There are no “YOU TURNS” I hear you simper.. continue.. This isn’t just another noetic masturbation. Read More
Posted Dec 14, 2009 | General | 1089 Views   

Gulp it Down ...

Cookies that tasted good, just got over ... I sit next to it with the empty Jar Sad, helpless and Hopeless I am dying out of thirst, but I don't wanna wash down the chocolate taste stuck on my tongue ... But I have to make a choice... Cookies that tasted good, just got over ... I sit next to it with the empty Jar Sad, helpless and Hopeless I am dying out of thirst, but I don't wanna wash down the chocolate taste stuck on my tongue ... But I have to make a choice ... I have realized 'Pain' is an outcome of making choices.. But then I wouldn't choose to die out of thirst and never have an opportunity to eat tastier cookies in future. ... Do I make sense, Honey ?? Get the glass of water and gulp it down .. survival is important .. it gives us 'Hope' of "Better", which is yet to come. I had one glass of water. I am felling better now I am happy merely with the fact That I did taste the cookies once i am sure I will get better once again some other time in Life. I want you to stop crying over the "Cookies" which got over wash down the taste from your tongue and walk ahead with a smile that you atleast had them once. Read More
Posted Oct 26, 2009 | Realisation | 1106 Views   

I left her alone on the "13th Floor"

‘I will always love you’ … I blurted out while she was busy praising the night. Night always looks beautiful on 13thFloor. Yeah the same old loyal hangout place for me. Before... ‘I will always love you’ … I blurted out while she was busy praising the night. Night always looks beautiful on 13thFloor. Yeah the same old loyal hangout place for me. Before she could realize that I am no more loyal to her she asked “Will ???” What do you mean?.. I was not prepared to explain because I wasn’t prepared to tell her. Honestly, I did not know when realization shook me. I don’t know when this “Will” sneaked in between the three magical words. Biggest myth that I had about love and relationship broke today. But the saddest part is that the myth broke with my own experience. Relationships, where nothing is going wrong are not a guarantee of lifetime. Sometime love takes a backseat even without fights, abuses and infidelities . They break too. Reasons and excuses are gathered later, just before walking out. It’s just that I did not think of any at the moment. ‘Water rising from the corners met right at the mid of her big beautiful eyes and dropped like a pearl in the wine glass’. Being a writer sometimes makes you so cynical about others pain that the moment you find anyone crying you start composing poetries out of it. I had nothing to console her. What I needed desperately was a counselor, who can tell me if anything wrong with me. Even the Church Father would have helped. Why suddenly I have stopped feeling about the person I loved so much till yesterday … nope may be a month ago .. or months … I don’t recollect when did I kiss her last or reminded loving her. She still looks the same beautiful gal .. nice cute and cuddly .. But I don’t love her anymore or probably I will always love her as someone whom I loved once. That’s it. Who invented the word “Better” I have no idea .. but I must pat his back . There is everything almost perfect and still there is something “Better” than that. There is always more to everything which is complete in itself . I don’t know if everyone agrees but yes there is. I don’t know if I should just insult myself that I turned out to be the typical human. One who roams unsatisfied desiring for more like a dog. One who can be tamed with a better and tastier biscuit regardless loyalty to his old master . No matter how much you love someone there is always a possibility that someone else can love them a little more or differently. Love is also like a product.. If anyone launches it in different flavors or with a buyback scheme .. You tend to loose your customer.Apologies! if I made it sound like “Business” …. But that’s what we have made it. I left the table while she still tried recollecting her faults in the past. But sometime it not your fault rather someone else’s extra efforts which takes the cake away. And I walk with my head held high saying “Its Human to want more” Read More
Posted Oct 22, 2009 | Question | 959 Views   

Karan ! Did you Really Loose It ?

Come on Karan now stop staring at it, he admonished himself! So many times he expects it to ring. But it only rings when he is least expecting it…. And irony is that it flashes the number which he has deleted in the useless attempts of <... Come on Karan now stop staring at it, he admonished himself! So many times he expects it to ring. But it only rings when he is least expecting it…. And irony is that it flashes the number which he has deleted in the useless attempts of ‘getting over’. How funny is that he deletes the number as if he will be able to ever erase it from his memory. In fact when he had saved it also he had memorized it by heart , but probably he saved it with some particular name and loved reading it flashing on his mobile screen. Those lovy dovy names like ‘cute2’ ‘janu’ ‘sweetu’ ‘cutie pie’ ‘honey’ etc. How thrilled he use to feel reading these words and use to start the conversation with the same word … ‘Did my cute2 got up…?’ ‘What is my jaanu doing?’ ‘Cutie pie I love u so so much’.. and what not. And the sound of that smile on the other side of the phone use to make his days, week, years,eons. Yes! Then he was sure of these facts. The facts, that life will end in her arms and he use to hum it to her .. He knows life is not a three hour movie where all the meeting-loving-confusion-hatred-realisation-reunion will happen within no time … but then he is a human, “just a plain human”. It tears him apart to see that he now belongs to the category of “jilted after use”. Though reality has jolted him and now his queries have also gone under a silent death “She loves me or she loves me not”. He has started removing the question mark from the end of the statement and started reading it as a confirmation. Finally amidst of random everyday fight of surviving in the ‘industry recession’ he has forgotten about his ‘love life’ recession decline and death. But then God has his own intentions for him. For he is Karan and he has to pass a test on each and every walk of Life. One fine day the same number flashes, the same number which he remembers by heart, even better than his DOB and passport no. He wonders if it’s a dream/nightmare or something which his numb heart/mind has forgotten to acknowledge. After quarreling with his thoughts, he picks it up to acknowledge a familiar voice. A voice more familiar than his own. The one which held the reins of his life, the one which held the power to lift up his spirits, no matter what. The one which he could have happily died hearing! Karan: hello Hers: hi Karan: yeah tell me Hers: ummm actually Karan : Hmmm ohh achcha Hers: what about Karan: yeah that Hers: Blah blah Karan: Blah blah ------------ Conversation which is being pulled. Sentences which are squeezed somehow. Nods which are forced. Unusual talks .. for the sake of conversation.. Nothing concrete, nothing meaningful.. no one wants to keep the phone , though the uneasiness can be sensed right through the empty spaces in the conversation. Silently blessedly, his battery conks off! He looks at the phone in wonderment, all the while he waited to complain about so many things and what happened? He did not even speak a second about the past? No questions on why when what etc…? He wonders then why the call was ..? He speaks out finally to that pic which he has still saved on his laptop … I feel sorry !! I don’t feel sorry for what happened between us. I don’t feel sorry that we are not together today I don’t feel sorry that we are alone today I don’t feel sorry that we might not connect ever again I don’t feel sorry that we did not discuss anything concrete I don’t feel sorry that you misunderstood me I don’t feel sorry that you will never know that I loved you I feel sorry for the fact that ‘You don’t even know that you still love me so much’ … The most important thing in communication is to hear what is not being said, and he has always been an expert in reading between lines. Suddenly a weight lifts up from his shoulders and he looks at his own reflection. He is not a Loser as he always thought he was. Sometimes Defeat or Death is just a start! P.S: ... Random Scribbling .. Read More
Posted Jul 07, 2009 | General | 606 Views   (Updated Jul 07, 2009 01:08 PM)

++Happy Birthday Kweldebs++

That’s a Nostalgic me to You!! Remember the times when I was sitting in that alley crying alone on that fav toy which I had lost, and there you came walking witha wide grin on your face “Rota kyun hai, ek gaya toh kya hua aur aa jayenge”……... That’s a Nostalgic me to You!! Remember the times when I was sitting in that alley crying alone on that fav toy which I had lost, and there you came walking witha wide grin on your face “Rota kyun hai, ek gaya toh kya hua aur aa jayenge”…… And we kicked off together from then… Remember we were just four years old then Remember the times we played pranks on the neighborhood auntie becaz she was such a pain We always use to laugh till tears started falling from our eyes Remember we were eight years old then Remember the way we used to hog and talk about food , We saved up on our pocket moneys to just eat. Remember we were twelve years old then. Remember the times when people stared at us as if we were a bunch of weirdos We ended up making them look like a weirdo Remember we were sixteen years old then. Today we are in different walks of life and you must be wondering if I have forgotten all this. No I haven’t!! And I also remember itsyour birthday today…. Debs!! Many Many Happy Returns of The Day I know what I have written above appears like a figment of imagination. But I have always known that we would have been like this had we grown up together. Total Brats always up to something , but more than that we would have been buddies of all good and bad times. Thanks Buddy for all those laughs and good times I shared with you, hope I had been there for your Birthday!! Read More
Posted Jun 30, 2009 | General | 876 Views   (Updated Jun 30, 2009 10:45 AM)

++ ExiT ++

Nothing breaks his gaze on the door, No one enters with a familiar face, now sometime the endless wait and boredom pushes him to desire for“unknown faces”. Will that change the course of his life? Is one question he would... Nothing breaks his gaze on the door, No one enters with a familiar face, now sometime the endless wait and boredom pushes him to desire for “unknown faces”. Will that change the course of his life? Is one question he would want to skip, if GOD allows? The Door has seen various Exits. He feels like checking if it meant only for Exits and He presumed someone will enter. Ironical but if it is meant for ‘Exit’ why do he keep looking at it. Realism shook him. He is not waiting for some new face; He am waiting for the old ones to return. “YOU to Return". Before you smile in the self glory, let me correct “its not coz he needs you, it’s just that he want to make you wear his SHOES” He is still gazing at the slammed door 'LOLA'! Read More

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