किस्मत के मैदान में लगे ख्वैशोँ के मेले थे ,
खुशियों के झूलों पर हम घंटों तक खेले थे ..

आखों में हजारों सपने थे , और सपनों पर यकीन ..
यह मुकम्मल जहां अपना था , आसमान भी और ज़मीन ..

फ़िक्र का कोई इल्म नहीं , जहां वाले भी हमसे नाराज़ हुए ..
फैला कर अपने पर , हम अपनी दुनिया में परवाज़ हुए ..

ख्वाइश बन गयी दुआ , और चाहत इबादत हो गयी ,
खुसियों की लगी लत , और उनकी आदत हो गयी ..


जाने क्यूँ हर सपना टूट गया , वक्त ने ऐसा फेर लिया ..
उड़ते हुए परिंदे को ग़म के भवंदर ने घेर लिया ..

रास्ते अलग क्या हुए , वो थो मुँह ही मोड़ गए ..
और जाते जाते , सब यादेँ भी पीछे चोदे गए ..

यादों के बंजर मैदान में , अब ख्वाब बिखरे पड़े हैं
और इन आखों में आँसू लिए , हम तनहा खड़े हैं ..

Right to Happiness

“Every Body has the right to happiness. Thou are powered by free will to make a choice that makes thou happy, irrespective of the rationale, reason or consequence of the choice.”
Amol- 05:08

Having stated the right, which I firmly believe everyone has, I would like to speak of how it affects everyone.

Most of us make most of our choice because of others or for others. Or at least we would like to believe so. I guess that’s how most of us are programmed. But the underlying reason is often selfish. It could be for our happiness or for others’ happiness which in turn makes us feel happy. A sacrifice is most often a choice we make to make ourselves feel good about ourselves and satiate our need to feel good. So, most mortals make choices which are consciously or subconsciously self-centered in nature. Most would debate that self centered is too Harsh a word to be used here, but truth usually is.

Objectively looking at the process of making choices in Life, we inherently put the “Right to happiness” in practice. But most would not like to believe so. Barring true love, every relationship is also struck by this Right . This true love could be between Family, friends, or anyone for that matter. Love is something which defies logic and any such intellectualization of Human Behavior. That could be an acceptable exception to this discussion.

Does exercising this right make us a selfish person? If by exercising this right we hurt others, do we become bad people? Life is a web where we are connected to a lot of others. Of these connections, we indulge in a few and call them friendships. We form a bond with a few people around and become emotionally attached. At this stage, there could be situations where something that gives you happiness, does not to the other person. Well, there comes a choice here. To exercise the right or not to. Well, pragmatism would preach you to.

And if you don’t, then either there is true love in your relationship or you are feeling happy about not making the choice that makes you happy. Then you choose to compromise which is what most people do in relationships.

Is expediency satanic? Is being practical a wrong thing? I guess there are no correct answers to that question, and neither wrong ones. If a choice makes you happy, and making that choice keeps you at peace with yourself; then chances are that the choice is the right one. And how others are going to perceive it should be the lasts of your concerns. It all depends on how strongly you feel about making the choice and how badly you want to make one. And to rationalize every choice you make, you have the “Right to Happiness”. And that does not make you a bad person at all. Just makes the people who are hurt, impractical.