BACHPAN
PART 2/5
I decided to go on a journey in pursuit of that so-called "inspirational place" where I thought I would find my inner peace and start this journey of songwriting. I took my bag, my bike and my guitar with me and started off. Someone once told me about this one place where the aura was so calm and relaxing that one would just fall in love with it. So after a long drive, I reached this place where I was to find that “inspiration” I was looking for. The night halt I took there was at a roadside hostel. The restaurant there was just along the edge of a cliff and at night one could see just the valley and the sky. I saw a couple with their two children sitting there at one of the tables having dinner. They had given their children a notebook and some colors to scribble. Sitting close to a window from where the valley and night sky could be seen, these two very young children were quietly and very deeply engrossed in drawing something. They would look up in the sky and then scribble something. Again look out and draw something. Looking at them similar childhood memories flashed through my head when I would be quietly engrossed in my work. Seeing this, I felt ………...
"ये दिल की ख़ामोशी आज , याद बचपन की ले आयी,
जहाँ चुप से मेरे मन की , बेहद सी बातें थी |".
to be continued…
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