Life as we
know it
Is a mix of
happiness and sorrow
of pluses
and minuses
of hopes
and disappointments
of bouquets
and brickbats!
To remind
us of this fact
during the Indian
festival, Makara Sankranti
People exchange
food treats
that are
both sweet and bitter
modern man
though wants only the limelight
he wants
Bouquets & Bouquets alone all the time…
So even the
occasional, yet inevitable
brickbat is unnerving, unsettling
and painful
enough for a
360-degree U-turn
& withdrawal into one’s shell…
The better
way perhaps is equanimity
in handling
life, taking it casually as it comes
not unduly
elated or distressed
either by
the bouquets or the brickbats!
सुखदुःखे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ (equanimity in joy and sorrow, gain and loss, victory and defeat).
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your thoughts on the subject.
ReplyDeleteYou have beautifully said it, particularly in your last stanzas.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your feedback DP!
DeleteEquanimity is so hard to come by. More so when society wants us to be critical and not passive. But we cannot give positive feedback and end up destroying the receiver.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your thoughts Abhijit!
DeleteBeautiful lines. Thanks for this post.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Jamshed.Happy you liked the post!
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