Complain

Well for the readers of this blog, its a disclaimer that this is going to usually be poetry. While I saw some good response on my first blog post, I had decided to write another one. It was not really long, before I could pick this topic to write on. I saw a friend of mine complaining a lot about how things are going wrong and all because of someone else. We all know, when things go wrong they really go wrong in each and every aspect of our lives, and we start blaming. I couldn't help but write about this criticizing and complaining attitude of ours.

We do expect a lot from a lot of people. Of course expectations are bound to come when we have close friends, girlfriends ;) and so on. But that's not it, expectations are man's greed. We tend to expect a lot to happen special to us and end up into a blame game. When things go wrong, they aren't because of us but 'cause of someone else, is what we think.

This is a vicious cycle and we fail to understand that happiness is within. It is an irony that I am writing this at such an age, when the same thing one of my teachers repeated when I was preparing for JEE. A few things we should always remember, one, happiness lies within us and secondly, we should never have a complaining attitude. The more we complain the more we give ourselves the excuse for not making things right. A bit philosophical, but true in my opinion. But somehow, even me being a human got into this vicious blame game cycle and ended up complaining and forgot happiness was within. I forgot what was going wrong was not 'cause of someone else, but me and only I could solve it. It was this time, I remembered the words of my teacher and wrote this poem-

I hate you

I hate you 

'Cause you are not there 

When I need someone 

When my heart is about to tear 

In search of you, the one 

I hate you 

'Cause you made my life grim 

Made me alone and in pity 

Standing on the rim 

And waiting since eternity 

I hate you 

'Cause u never made it special 

Eating up my soul 

Like an everyday ritual 

Like you loved to be cruel 

I hate you 

'Cause you treat me like just somebody 

Not the one close to you 

You treat me like a body 

Not a soul made for a few 

I hate you 

'Cause you wiped out my smile 

Wiped out the glow on my face 

Crushed down my style 

And made me a puppet ace 

I hate you 

'Cause I never find you 

You are nowhere to be seen 

No trace, no clue 

How can you be so mean? 

I hate you 

'Cause I am confused 

Are you here or am I having liquor? 

Or to one we are reduced? 

Or am I standing in front of a mirror? 

                                                       - Som Bose