It’s a regular day. You are busy with the routine chores,
the clutter of everyday life strewn all around you. You are engaged in
completing a jigsaw puzzle, putting together pieces; sometimes trying to create
a new picture altogether. And suddenly a tune echoes somewhere near you. You
stop. Raptured. Enamored. Captivated by the intensity with which the melody
touches the chords of your heart. It is strange how a song, written by some stranger
somewhere; a tune composed by someone unrelated, unknown, cuts across the
deepest recesses of your hear and stirs your soul. You feel an instant
connection with the words, the music, the interplay of melodic chords that
create a divine symphony. Sometimes it is almost like it’s written for you. The
very words you keep away from speaking to yourselves, the very melodies that
you “unlisten” even when you can hear them all around you!
Such is the power of music and songs. They make you talk to yourself;
they make you aware of the sound of silence around you and they make you
conscious of what your heart really desires. Haven’t there been times when we
listen to a song and instantly leave our world of mere “survival” to reach a
world where we “live” with our thoughts, our very own dreams and desires. How many times has it so happened that you
instantaneously, in a reflex go, “That’s my song!” Funny it is, how we can
associate songs with ourselves, with the people around us, with the places we
have been to and with our thoughts and fears and fantasies!
Songs…..they ache and soothe our heart; they stir and
satisfy our soul; they make us dance and sometimes leave us motionless……Songs!
And as I end this, those playing on my playlist, “my songs”
are:
Aoge jab tum o saajna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnCMv--L9Y
Kaminey title http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te374eAaA3w
Tears in heaven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRsJlAJvOSM
Ye safar bahut hai kathin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tbJdWxOhuA
And of course the list goes on..... :)
