A Journey without a destination sans success and failure

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Dews alone do not make the majesty of the garden , the flame of flowers too have their place of pride //

From the wet eyes the tears may flow and from the heart the smoke too shall arise

I believe that the highest form of human expression is through poetry. Nothing can be more mysterious & mystical and yet so obvious and open at the same time.?

Most of the time it is not the music but the text represented as poetry that makes a lasting impression on our thought process.?

Just a few days back I was listening to an old ghazal sung by Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh in their melodious voices. The above couplet (written by poet Saba Afghani) in their rendition caught my attention and thus began a thought process.?

I thought of sharing it with all of you. Good things need to be shared to make our collective existence even more beautiful.

If you read the couplet, you will realise that life is not a linear? process. It is a complex convoluted journey where the good and the bad coexist and all have their own place of importance in life. It’s not only the softness or the soft part of our journey that is important but the hard aspect of our life also that deserves respect.

It is not only the flowers in the garden that matters but also the presence of the thorns that is the reality of the beautiful garden. Our life can be compared to a garden where both the flowers and the thorns coexist

At times, we may fail and we may even feel depressed about our failure. We may feel our heart burning with our failures.? Sometimes we may even feel as if our lamentations in words are just like the smoke emanating from the burning heart. But it doesn’t matter. It is also a passing phase? in our life.?

As humans we all have our desires. Some of it may get fulfilled but some may not. Sometimes we may reach our destination, sometimes we may not. Sometimes our life may seem easy, sometimes it may not. Ultimately we may all remember that life is still a Journey and not the destination.?

The melody of life is also like a Ghazal.? Every Ghazal may not mesmerize us? always but maybe one couplet within it may catch our attention. Similarly every phase of our life may not mesmerize us nor others but still it is a journey. We must continue to enjoy the journey as if there is no destination ahead.?

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