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मेरी यादों मे आने वाले अजनबी..

कुछ अधूरा लिख कर के मिटा दिया हमने,

तुम्हारे खयाल को कुछ दूर हटा दिया हमने,

ऐ मेरी यादों मे आने वाले अजनबी,

तेरे हिस्सों को आपनी यादों से घटा दिया हमने,

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तेरा चेहरा अब तो निगाहों में धुंधला भी गया,

तुझे सोचने जो था अब वो सिलसिला भी गया,

एक परछाई सी ख़यालों में भले ही रहे,

पर तेरे न होने से जो था अब वो गिला भी गया,

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तुझे तेरे होने क्या गुमान थे, अब कुछ याद नहीं,

छोड़ा हमने जो सहर, शायद वो अब आबाद नहीं,

बद्दुआ दी तो ना थी हमने कोई,

फिर भी दोबारा बसाने की अब कोई फ़रियाद नहीं,

~~ ©सरिकात्रिपाठी

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पाठकों का शुक्रिया…. !!

पढ़ते रहिए, खुश रहिए … !!

कोशिशें जिंदगी की…🤞

जिंदगी बेलगाम होती गई, हम थामने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो छटपटा कर छूटती रही, हम बांधने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो टूट कर बिखर जाती रही, हम बचाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो उड़कर आसमा सजाती रही, हम छुपाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो उम्मीद हमसे लगाती रही, हम निभाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

जिंदगी यूँही गुजर जाती रही, हम लड़खड़ाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो नाराज होकर जाती रही, हम मनाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो बेइंतहा याद आती रही, हम भुलाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो लौट कर वापस आती रही, हम भगाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो थामे रही फिर भी हमें, हम छुड़ाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

हम नाकामियों में उलझे रहे, वो सुलझाने की कोशिश करने लगी,

हम अंधेरे में खुद को बुझाते रहे, वो जलाने की कोशिश करने लगी,

हम उससे शिकायत करते रहे, वो मुस्कराने की कोशिश करने लगी,

हम कोशिशों से जब हारने लगे, वो जिताने की कोशिश करने लगी,

कोशिशों की हिम्मत फिर जागने लगी, जिन्दगी मेरे आगे नाचने लगी,

जीने का मकसद देते हुए, वो मंजिलों की ऊंचाई नापने लगी,

वो दिखाती रही रास्ते हमें, हम चलते जाने की कोशिश करते रहे,

वो थकाती रही हमें उम्र भर, हम न जाने क्या कोशिश करते रहे,

ऐ जिंदगी शुक्रिया तेरा, तू कोशिशों का एक बड़ा गुलशिताॅ जो बनी,

मेरे होने का इतना सुकून मुझको है, इन कोशिशों की एक दास्ताँ तो बनी,

©सरिकात्रिपाठी

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पढ़ने के लिए शुक्रिया…!!

पढ़ते रहिए, प्रसन्न रहिए..!!

मनीप्लांट सी जिंदगी..!

बोतल में पडी मनीप्लांट सी जिंदगी,

मिट्टी के इंतजार में जैसे रुकी हुई सी,

आशा पकड़े हुए, पर बढ़ भी नहीं रही,

रोशनी की तरफ जैसे थोड़ी झुकी हुई सी,

©सरिकात्रिपाठी

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Stay hopeful..stayalive…!!

और हो क्यूँ…?

इच्छायें छोटी नहीं हैं मेरी, और हों क्यूँ, चलना मुझे है तो मंजिलें भी में ही तय करूँ…

रोशनी कम पसंद नहीं मुझे, और हो क्यूँ, जलना मुझे है तो आग की ऊंचाई भी में ही तय करूँ….!

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रोजाना (नया 5&6)

वही छुपाना वही दिखाना रोजाना,

वही खाना वही पकाना रोजाना,

परहेज करने को राजी तो हो जाना,

छुप छुप कर फिर वही चुराना रोजाना,

वही नौकरी वही कमाई रोजाना,

वही बहस और वही लड़ाई रोजाना,

दो मिनट का चाय विराम ले पाना,

वही कुर्सी और वही घिसाई रोजाना,

…….

©सरिकात्रिपाठी

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रोजाना भाग 1 & 2

रोजाना भाग 3 & 4

CH 14 Happiness and Sorrow

In the chapter 12, I had asked you to count your blessings, to reduce anxiety and frustration. Here I want to stress on facing your worst fear upfront, to reduce the Stress.

When you face something unexpected or unwanted and it starts to give you stress, try doing a simple exercise of 5 steps. I have tried several times and works for me.

1. Pause for a moment, imagine the worst outcome of the situation.

2. Remain in that space for a few minutes to feel the release of sadness of this outcome.

3. Extend your thought to the next step you would take to stabilize yourself.

4. Tell yourself you will live out of it anyway, and it’s ok to lose some.

5. Come back to the current situation. Now you are not afraid of the worst outcome.

Face the situation to get the best mitigation you can with your available resources. If you avoid the worst, be happy. If you couldn’t, take the step you imagined in step 3 and be at peace. At least for the duration, you will find yourself out of the sorrow of the loss and able to make your response with a stable mind.

And then of course Bounce Back …. !!!

“Because happiness is not about avoiding sorrow, it’s about facing it successfully. “

© sarikatripathi

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Face sorrow, stay happy.. !!

CH 13

CH 15

तकनिकी में आभास.. !! #technology vs #feelings

विडिओ कॉल ने बड़ी मुश्किल में डाल दिया,

जुदाई के गम का सारा अर्थ ही निकाल दिया,

वो सामने तो होते हैं, पर दिल भरता तो नहीं,

रोज मिलने जैसा तो है, पर मिलना तो नहीं,

सुबह की चाय और रात का खाना भी यूँ तो साथ है,

पर दोनों के प्याले और थाली में कुछ अलग सी बात है,

पहले के ज़माने में दिल भर के रो तो थे पाते,

आज झूठी खुशी से जैसे खुद को बस बहलाते,

दो नाव में जैसे साथ बहती हुई शाम सजती है,

पर दूर से झरना देखने से प्यास कब बुझती है?

तकनिकी में सुविधा तो है पर सच्चा आभास नहीं,

तात्कालिक साधन तो है, घर वाला एहसास नहीं,

जीवन के इस रूप को सामान्य नहीं कह सकते,

हमेशा तो विडिओ कॉल के साथ नहीं रह सकते… !!!

©सरिकात्रिपाठी

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CH 13 (UN)HAPPINESS AND VICTIMHOOD

Some of us appear to be always unhappy. Even when they achieve something significant, they are still unhappy about something else. It is more habitual unhappiness then real. They use the tool of victimhood to keep themselves always unhappy and at the centre of everyone’s pity. They believe and act as if the whole world is against them, fate is against them, God is against them and that everyone else is much more fortunate then they are. While at the start, such behaviour tends to attract sympathy from the near ones and even strangers. However, over time it can cause people to wear out and start avoiding the whining person, who constantly fail to sympathise with anyone else.

I do not believe that such behaviour is on purpose and that someone wants to remain constantly unhappy. This is more to do with a lack of self-confidence and self-appreciation. Their natural instinct is to demean their own achievements mostly by comparing to someone doing better, without any intention to doing better themselves.

“It is important to assess our own behaviour if we find people distancing from us.“

There is another breed of people who tend to use victimhood as a means to manipulate people and extract gains that they never deserve. They extract sympathy out of their fabricated misfortune and dupe unwilling good souls in providing undue favours. These people are borderline criminals against happiness in any healthy society. Much like a rotten vegetable in a bag of healthy vegetables, which if not isolated in time make all others rot along. Again such behaviour doesn’t last long but leaves a trail of unhappy people who come to realise that they were cheated, and probably decided to never help another soul.

“What hurts more than any misfortune, is when someone cheated you and you couldn’t realise it on time.”

In my life, I have come across both these breeds, and I found two things that are common in both. One they are unhappy and second that they extract your happiness and leave you unpleasant. While one does it, unknowingly and second do it purposely.

If after reading this you find yourself as one of this category, please re-evaluate your thoughts and decide better for your happiness and of those around you. If you find yourself in the company of the first kind, try to rationalize with them, and if you must, help in measures you won’t have to regret. If you find yourself in the company of the second kind, well just leave immediately.

©sarikatripathi

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Stay happy, stay conscious.. !!

Ch 12

Ch 14

CH 12 HAPPINESS AMONG LONELINESS

Before getting into counting the pain and problems I will start with a tip, “Count your Blessings“. It is a rather simple thing you can do to cheer yourself up within seconds. If you have a roof over your head, food on the table, electricity and water running, a place to sleep, you are much better then many lakhs of people on the earth. Further, if your health is reasonably fine and you also have family and friends to talk to, you have the luxury of life. Then if you have a job to trade your time and skills for some money you are even more privileged. Finally, if you have all this at the same place, you should not even complain. But like me, if you don’t have everything I listed above but just a few of them, be hopeful and thankful for what you have.

“When you feel sad, bad or angry just Count your Blessings, to calm down and rationalise your response, not necessarily to forget the cause”

Being alone and being lonely is never the same thing. Many people like to be alone most of the time and enjoy it, many others live alone and yet remain connected to their friends, family and colleagues over virtual means. While many people enjoy an elaborate social life, many others remain lonely even in most dense social setups. It all depends on the balance of what you want and what you get, that decides how you feel about your situation.

“It all depends on the balance of what you want and what you get, that decides how you feel”

The recent times have indiscriminately isolated huge fractions of world population from each other. However, each one of us experiences this isolation very differently. Some of us feel the divide between countries for our travel plans are ruined or someone from the family is abroad. Some of us feel the lack of domestic travel affecting us for similar reasons. But most of us are unaffected by the travel restrictions and miss going out to our offices, markets or gyms & parks. All of us liked our homes but the anxiety that results from restrictions and uncertainty is affecting everyone, maybe on different levels.

Loneliness and depression are creeping in while the world is bracing for the pandemic to pass. The economic meltdown is predicted soon after the economies will try to function after the lockdowns. Job insecurity is adding to the stress of the already frustrated working from the home workforce. All the factors that are mostly out of our hand as an individual.

All this brings us to the importance of maintaining our happiness and sanity more than ever. Every loss brings the possibility of a new beginning, but only those who remain capable of harnessing the opportunity will gain. The idea is to stay positive with focusing is on whatever is going good or at least not gone bad while it could have. Learning something new or something that we have kept on hold for later, can be the most rewarding outcome from the current situation.

Maintaining health is another challenge while restricted with lack of space, equipment and motivation. Well, same old Yoga is at our rescue as it doesn’t need much space or equipment and pandemic itself is the motivation to improve immunity.

We need to believe that no one is alone in this. Whatever will happen, it will happen to all and that everybody will come out together form it. With all the learnings from nature’s punishment hopefully, we will build a better world.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> until then >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

stay in, stay safe and stay sane ….!!!

©sarikatripathi

Ch 11

Ch 13

वायरस का भय #COVID-19

जीवन अस्थिर, है असमंजस हर ओर,

वायरस का भय और गणनाओं का शोर,

करोना का होना, ना होना, बड़ा सवाल है,

होने की शंका होना उससे भी बड़ा बबाल है,

कुछ घर में बंधक, कुछ अनजान जगहों में,

भयभीत स्वप्न और शंकाएँ निगाहों में,

घर के काम और घर से काम की कोशिश जारी,

क्या कुछ सीखाके जाएगी ये महामारी,

आपनो के साथ कहीं सब मिल समय गुजारते हैं,

विदेशी धरती पर फसे कहीं अपने देश को पुकारते हैं,

सरकारें नित नये प्रतिबन्ध जारी करती जाती हैं,

नागरिकों से भी जिम्मेदारी की उम्मीद लगाती हैं,

उपचार से बेहतर बचाव, आज का सूत्र है यही ,

स्वास्थ्य के आगे समय या धन का भी कुछ मोल नहीं,

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More strength to all home and abroad.

Everyone take care of yourself

Hope all will be fine soon enough

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