Mera Dil Titli Sa - A Valuable Gift

It has been a long long time since i have sat down to blog. Those who are reading this, take my hug 

It is very often that we listen to our favorite song and we churn the lyrics of it till we get it by heart. The same happened with me. But, it is a poem which was gifted to me by my darling friend Vivek long time back. Though I don't read it daily, i read it very often that i got it by heart. (Please don't ask me now ). I am grateful to him for gifting me such a beautiful one. 

Indeed, I have written the poem on my academic note books of B.Tech so that I would read it in every boring class except in my favorite madam's class for the more obvious reasons. 

The title of the poem is "IF" which was written by Rudyard Kipling. Some stanzas( marked red in poem) of the poem are well noted to Telugu movie geeks, for those were used in the movie Happy days which was directed by Sekhar Kammula. 

IF you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

This is, without a doubt, my beloved poem. This contains a multitude of characteristics deemed essential to an ideal man. In particular a man must be humble, rational, truthful, dependable, patient and preserving. He must continue to have faith in himself when others doubt him. He must deal with highest and lowest echelons of this society.

You can find the lyrics here too.. 

P.S: Go,  Get a microscope, for we really need it to analyse the poem line to line. 

Food For Thought - Heartless Humans !

Sometimes, I come across such awesome articles that it is worth sharing with all my friends. Though i mail them to some of my selected friends, this time i thought of sharing it on my blog, for i have a fear that they remain unacknowledged like many previous share worthy mails. 

Here is one of those share worthy article i came across in a local Sunday magazine ( Andhra Prabha) . 

This is the conversation that went between members of a family of some real beings with heart. 

"The children are suffering from the last two days. Go get some food for them. I cannot see them suffering" Mother dog barked on her husband dog.

"I am trying dear, morning to evening I have been on the same job of getting something for the children to eat, Even i cannot see the family going hungry each day"

"Why don't you try near any of the KFC garbage dump yards?, May be you can find some leftovers there"

"Absolutely out of the point it is. I don't go there, that place is used by the entire colony as a garbage dump and that place is stinking and I won't go there"

"Please, this one time dear" , She said with moist eyes.

"Fine, I will go there for this last time", He hurried towards a garbage dump near the end of their road

It was cloudy and there is sight of the sun. She has been waiting for him to return with something to feed their children. She has been waiting impatiently.

Hours passed by and she was worried. She kept staring on the road for her hubby to come. 

Finally, she saw him running with a loaf of meet in his mouth. Trying to catch his breath, he laid down. "What is this thing? ", She asked.

"This is a new born human girl child", He answered with his eyes wide opened. "Someone who doesn't want a girl child dumped her in the garbage"

"How heartless and ruthless these human beings are!! Thank god, we don't discriminate between our children" She said licking her closest child. 

That puppy, seeing the food waged its tail in happiness, for they got food for survival.

I started reading the whole article thinking it was just an anecdote. But, it left me thoughtful. I let my tears cleanse my heart, but the ache remained. I had been euphoric to write this post for a very long time, but never found a moment to bring out such emotions turning into words.