Hug the moment

Why do we sit and hum along with the verse of those bygone poets of our land? It is because those emotions laden words still transport us. Big days or big occasions don8217;t really matter if that binding force of emotions is there. Fortunate are those who find it and sad-eyed are those who don8217;t.

Last summer while I was interviewing Ruskin Bond I asked him about his love life and it was so very touching to hear the bachelor bare the truth 8212; he is still waiting for that emotional thing to happen. Each time he8217;d read that weekly forecast in the papers, he said, he8217;d sit up expectantly waiting for something terribly romantic to take off. Nothing happened, till last summer at least8230;

But, then, that hope keeps many in wait. To borrow from Majrooh Sultanpuri8217;s lines: 8216;8216;You are repeatedly told that the path from the thorn to the rose is strewn with desolation/ Yet, the power of my passion insists that the garden is round the corner from the desert8221;.