ફક્ત તારી યાદ પૂરતી છે જીવવા માટે,
સમય ક્યાં છે તને ફરિયાદ કરવા માટે.
હોય જો વાદળી તો મનમૂકીને વરસ આજે,
ઝાંઝવાંમાં કશું રહ્યું નથી હવે પીવા માટે.
મન થાય ત્યારે બેધડક આવતી રહેજે,
ઘર મારુ ખાલી જ છે તારે રહેવા માટે.
મંજિલ મહોબ્બતની આસાન નથી હોતી,
મરજીવા બનવું પડે એને પામવા માટે.
જો આપવાજ હોય તો થોડા વધારે આપ,
ઓછા પડે છે આ જખમ તને ભૂલવા માટે.
સમજી શકે તો સમજ હરેશની ચુપકીદીને,
હવે બાકી કશું રહ્યું નથી, કંઈ કહેવા માટે.
રંગભૂમિ જેવું આ જીવન જીવાયી ગયું,
ગળતા જામનું આખરી બુંદ પીવાયી ગયું.
હસવાનો અભિનય કરવાનો હતો જો કે,
યાદ એમની આવતા આંસુ છલકાયી ગયું.
સર કર્યા સૌ મોરચા જીવનના રંગમંચ પર,
થયો બાદશાહ, પણ પવિત્ર દિલ હરાયી ગયુ.
જ્યાં ભોંઠા પડ્યા અમારા સૌ સંવાદો,
ત્યાં મૌન એમનું સર્વત્ર ચર્ચાયી ગયું .
હતો હરેશ પણ એક અસલ મજાનો કલાકાર,
હતું નાનું, પણ મજાનું નાટક ભજવાયી ગયું.
લ્યો, આ પડ્યા નવરા ને તમે યાદ આવ્યા,
દિવસે થયા ઉજાગરા ને તમે યાદ આવ્યા.
મને મંઝીલને પામવાની ઘણી હોંશ છે,
રસ્તા વચ્ચે પડ્યો ભૂલોને તમે યાદ આવ્યા.
સાહિત્ય ને મારે તો સાત ગાઉં નું છેટું છે,
લો આ સાંભળી ગઝલને, તમે યાદ આવ્યા.
લોકો કહે છે કે તમે બહુ મિતભાષી છો,
અમે રહ્યા જરાં મૌન ને તમે યાદ આવ્યા.
અમે તો તરસીયે છીએ તમારા આવાજ ને,
આ કોઈએ દીધો ટહુકોને તમે યાદ આવ્યા.
ગમગીની સાથી છે આ સૌ પ્રેમીઓની ,
અમે પડ્યા એકલા ને તમે યાદ આવ્યા.
હરેશ ને શાં માટે યાદ એવો છો ફરી ફરી ને,
આ ભૂલવા બેઠો તમને ને તમે યાદ આવ્યા.
The only reason for me to study computer science was to do something different and make a big positive disruptive impact on the way that we live and use technologies. It took 17 years for me to find what I need to do. I think now I know what I need to do for next 25 years.
Our rest of life is the journey to the new beginning or the path to reach our own goal. There comes a time in life where you listen to your soul and embrace the change to fulfill your unfilled dreams. You need to find your lost passion, redefine your own-self and achieve unachievable.
The successful marriage is an extension of your own self where you have freedom to express your thoughts and live your life while allowing other person to do the same. I don’t know if marriages are made in heaven, however I am sure that marriage life can be made as good as heaven on the earth as long as you don’t let your ego spoil it and respect other person as is. Many congratulations to Gauri Prajapati for this wonderful journey of five years. Thanks for understanding and accepting me as is. To be honest, one corner of my heart knows that I am not the easiest person to deal with and it does require a great level of maturity to get along with me for few specific things.
They say that people do get changed after marriage or one can’t live his own life the way he or she used to live. I am thankful to you Gauri for helping to rediscover my ownself. When I look at our daughter Aadhya , it does remind me of my own childhood. It has helped me to revive the dying creativity in me. The seeds of creativity, imagination and entrepreneurship which I sowed a decade ago, have started blooming from a dormant state. It does require someone who is close to me and believing in my ability to change the world for a good reason. Thanks for being that person. I am very much covieneced that I am going to make the positive difference in many people’s life in next few years.
I think I have everything that one can expect from a successful marriage, during these five years . It makes rest of life and especially next five years super exciting as we continue on this wonderful journey. I am waiting for our 25th Anniversary which we would celebrate in Space. Who knows scientists might have found life on other planet by then or it is a fair expectation to have a space journey feasible by year 2037.
We would be setting a good example to follow for our next generation Mivan and Aadhya with the blessing of our parents, brothers, sisters, friends and relatives,
ગુલાબની જેમ સદા ખીલતા રહો,
ને દિલ ખોલી ને રોજ હસતા રહો.
પામો તમે બધી ખુશી જીવનમાં,
હર પળ આંનદ થી માણતા રહો.
રોજ મળવું તો શક્ય નથી,
ક્યારેક આમ યાદ કરતા રહો.
સમય જતા થતા ક્યાં વાર લાગે છે?
ક્યારેક ઘડી ને બે ઘડી રોકતા રહો.
લાગણીઓ થી પર હોય છે પ્રેમ,
જે છે પોતાના એને સદા પામતા રહો.
ક્ષિતિજ ને ક્યાં સીમા હોય છે?
મન મૂકી ને બધે વિસ્તરતા રહો.
હવે ક્યાં પહેલાની જેમ તારા વિચારોમાં રહેવાય છે?
જો શોધવા નીકળું તો ખુદમાં જ ખોવાઈ જવાય છે.
કેવો રાચતો હતો કલાકો ના કલાક તારી યાદોમાં,
હવે તો જાત ને પણ ક્યાં સમય આપી શકાય છે?
અનેક લાગણીઓ ઉભરાતી’તી આ હૃદય સાગરમાં,
ઓટ તો નથી આવી, પણ ભરતીઓ સમાઇ જાય છે.
નહોતી આવડતી છતાં તારા વિશે લખ્યા કરતો’તો,
ને આજે આવડે છે તો ક્યાં ગઝલમાં ગૂંથી શકાય છે?
મિત્રો સઘળા મજા લેતા મારી, રોજ વાતો કરીને તારી,
ભૂતકાળ ને માત્ર સંસ્મરણોમાં જ તાજો કરી શકાય છે.
ને ક્યારેક આમ વહેલી સવારે આવી જાય યાદ તારી,
તો હરેશ થી ક્યાં બધી લાગણીઓ ને છુપાવી શકાય છે?
One thing of mankind that does not change is, its ability to dream. Every person has its own dream and I am not an exception. Like everyone of us, I keep dreaming. In fact I dare to dream big. I have constantly seen many of my dreams gettig realized. It is wonderful feeling to see our own dreams come true.
Many of my dreams actually become a part of my daily thought process. To dream is a process of transitioning your self from one state to another state of mind. The transition is never been so easy. Many times I get lost in between two states of mind or the dream itself gets lost. When the desire to achieve dream is not strong enough to compell you to do something, you really don’t take any serious action to achieve it. More often, I dreamt but I did not have clear path to achieve the dream. My own thinking and limitations could not let me move forward and that generated lots of stress for me throught my life. I had to suffer or compromise as I was mentally not prepared or did not have proper plan and passion to go for it. My thought process has got matured over a period of time and now I am able to make an honest efforts to retrospect my ownself and take positive out of it and learnig together.
My view towards life has got changed. In fact I always kept short term dreams. I never had any big plan or sincere dreams beyond the age 35. The one reason for this could be I wanted to achieve more in my early age. The life is not as short to dream as I used to think. Actually, it is now only I have started feeling that there is much more left in my life. The life going forward is going to be my second inning in where I am going to sculpture my own future. I don’t have any big dream set for now, however I could see many doors open for me. I just need to choose any of these door. I am going to make it happen. I feel very good at this very moment and I want to take many positives from this good feeling.
Happy teachers’ day sir. We miss you and there is nothing in this world which can fill the blank space left by you in our heart !!
Ghanshyamsinh Zala, Urfe Zala Saheb.. This was the name which used to bring discipline among 242 primary school students before 20 years in a small and second last village of Ahmadabad district -Vinzuwada.
My young fellow villagers may not know much about him, however my class mates, my seniors and people of Vinzuwada, would never forget this name. He was beloved teacher of all of us. He was strict, however kind hearted person who loved his duty and lived the life for others. I am grateful that I got an opportunity to study under him for 7th standard. He inspired many students to do his best. He was innovative, creative and great motivator. He used to take lecturer of English for student of all classes when English was non mandatory subject in Primary education. He was the first one to teach ABCD to many of my village people. He was very specific about health and exercise. I remember many students like me hated Saturday because that was the day where he used to make sure that every students from 5th, 6th and 7th standard participate in Excercise periods (PT sessions) and sweat.
He was a great sports man and some of the games that he made famous among us were Cricket, Langdi, KhoKho and Kabaddi.
He is one of the most respected teacher in my village. Everybody liked him, irrespective of cast and economy class. I remember his last day as a teacher in our village. There was a special farewell function arranged by our village people. Almost everyone in that function was crying. I could see tears and feeling of gratitude in everyone’s eye there.
There is one more teacher, Bhavanbhai Patel. These two teachers together brought many fundamental changes in our school. I would not be wrong if I say the years from 1990 to 1997 was the golden period of my village where this duo made their best efforts and as a result our school was the one of the best school of Viramgam Taluka. They planted many trees in schools and lead cleaning campaigns. They taught us the lesson of patriotism and made us to take pledge to take care of public properties. They were true Gurus and loved their duty beyond school hours.
I am yet to find the reason why the God likes good people so much and call them to heaven so early. GD Zala sir met an accident before few years when he was going for training organized for teachers by government. It was fatal accident and he died on the spot. That was one of the saddest day of my life.
He was the one who helped me to pay fee for MScIT. He never asked for that money. I felt blessed and special whenever I met him. He had a big heart and his eternal love and blessing will always remain with me.
Thank you sir for everything.