Hazaar Khwahishain Aisi

There are hazaar small things that we want to accomplish in life - each one so precious!

If I think about it -

- I want to buy a car,

- I want to see the Pyramids,

- I want to start my own business and then get it listed on BSE (at least),

- I want to be a national leader - a politician (a good one),

- I want to have a stint in the Army

- I want to.......

And then sometimes, we get obsessed with one such khwahish and relentlessly follow it - desperately trying to realise our dream. Sometimes, so passionately that we forget about everything else - the hundreds of small desires that we used to have. That khwahish becomes the reason for our existence! Unless this happens the khwahish cannot become reality. And whats the joy!!... the joy when the khwahish materializes after all the honest work we had put in, the conviction we showed.

But sometimes, despite our honest efforts, we cannot get that one thing we aspire for. Not because, we didn't make the effort or we didn't have the conviction..... but probably because we were chasing something that didn't exist - wasn't real! Probably because we were shooting at the wrong goal-post all the time. And when the realization dawns that we were chasing a mirage, it occurs to us that in that time, we had forgotten the so many simple pleasures of life - the hazaron khwahishein, simple, yet precious!

What happens after that? The optimist makes an effort to forget and move on! - we begin to appreciate things which we took for granted. We create new dreams and chase them, one-by-one, and achieve and then forget and start again.... and life moves on!

"Hazaaron Khwahishain aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle

bohut nikle mere arma' lekin fir bhi kam nikle"

-- Mirza Ghalib