Songs and more...

There are these emotions that keep running through your heart/mind/amygdala/limbic system (whatever you choose to believe).

Like I have mentioned many a times, our emotions oscillate without consideration for the situation and surroundings we might be. They are that natural. They come and go.

The following three verses from few of quite well-known Hindi songs depict the same.

Angry with the social injustice, like Guru Dutt in Pyasa, we want to do nothing with this world.

जला दो, जला दो इसे फूँक डालो ये दुनिया

मेरे सामने से हटा लो ये दुनिया

तुम्हारी है तुम ही सम्भलो ये दुनिया

ये दुनिया अगर मिल भी जाये तो क्या है

He literally is saying “Burn this world and let the ashes be blown away, ensure that I don’t have to look at this world twice, it’s your (twisted) world – you handle it (I don’t want anything to do with it), even if the world is at my feet, how would it matter?”

Well, that are pretty strong thoughts. In the same song, he says that no one really cares for the positive and humane emotions.

In yet another song, the writer agrees that we live in a society but calls it merely namesake. Have a look!

कहने को साथ अपने एक दुनिया चलती हैं

चुपके से इस दिल में तन्हाई पलती हैं

बस याद साथ हैं

तेरी याद साथ हैं 

The above verse roughly translates as “The social world is with us at every step we take, but yet we feel lonely in our heart, it’s only your memory that I hold on to.”

Here, the poet doesn’t seem to have given up completely. There is at least one person who proves to be a companion.

Now, look at this song which has some other flavor altogether.

पलके झपकते ही दिन ये निकल जाए

बैठी बैठी भागी फिरूं

मेरी तरफ आता हर गम फिसल जाए

आँखों में तुमको भरूँ

बिन बोले बातें तुमसे करूँ

अगर तुम साथ हो

It translates to “the day passes in a blink of an eye, I am sitting yet I feel like I am running everywhere (exploring), every bit of sadness that moves towards me moves away and all I see is you and nothing else, I don’t talk anything yet our conversation and communication is so clear and endless.”

Here, the person literally says that a single individual can change the meaning of everything.

You may wonder why am I randomly sharing this. It is just that we are all this together. We feel all this. I do.

If you wish, share the contradictory songs that touched you!