Past Present Future

You can never go back to what you were. I can never go back to what I was. Our experiences change us. We evolve mentally, physically and emotionally with time. You need to accept yourself the way you’re now. Don’t think of the past, the things which made you happy. It’s in the past. Those people, those things which used to make you happy, aren’t there anymore. So find happiness in the things, the people you have now. Let bygones be bygones. Focus of present, because your present will shape your future. Always remember this.

-Abhishek Gupta

Hope

We don’t always get what we want, what we deserve. Not everyone is lucky. I’ve struggled a lot in my life, and I’m still struggling. I had dreams. Big ass dreams. Couldn’t fulfill all of it. Because that’s life. Sometimes we don’t get what we want, so we need to learn to find happiness in what we have. If we are destined to do something big in life, we will do it, when the time is right. There’s a phrase in Hindi, which we need to learn by heart and respect it, “waqt se pehle, aur naseeb se zada kisi ko kuch nahi milta”. I’m not trying to demotivate any of you here. I am just telling you to face the truth. And keep working hard, so that someday you will reach that point in your life where you can actually try to fulfill all your dreams and live your life the way you always wanted to live. Accept the reality, but never lose hope. Hope is what keeps the fire within us, alive.

-Abhishek Gupta

Never Lose Hope

You’ll fall. You’re supposed to fall. That is inevitable. ‘Sometimes’ you have people around you, who will help you, to get up, but mostly this is not the case. You fall down. You’re hurt. You feel like giving up. But that’s what life is all about. So get used to it. Get used to of falling down and getting hurt. Because that’s how we learn and evolve. And then, you pick yourself up. You guide yourself. You LEARN from your mistakes. Always remember this, “the people you expect to be around, will not always be around, so you need to trust only one person, and that one person is YOU”. When it’s dark, you light your way and guide yourself home. People are temporary. YOU are constant, in your life. Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. No matter how hard it gets, never lose hope.

-Abhishek Gupta

अगर चाय ना होता तो क्या होता?

अगर चाय ना होता तो क्या होता?
ये भी नही बोल सकता मैं,
के वही होता जो मंज़ूर ए खुदा होता।
क्यूंकि चाय ना होने का इल्जाम
भी अगर खुदा के ऊपर ही डाल दूं,
तो बात कुछ ऐसी हो जाती के
आफिस के वक़्त डेस्क पर अपने
मैं भरी दोपहरी सो रहा होता।
अगर चाय ना होता तो क्या होता?

चाय बिना ज़िन्दगी अधूरी होती।
आधी दुनिया बेवक़्त हर जगह सो रही होती।
फिर सैलरी से सोने के नाम जो
फाइन काटा होता कंपनी ने,
उस बात को लेकर किसी कोने
में जाकर ये जनता रो रही होती।
और आधी आबादी इस दुनिया की,
सरदर्द के burden को अपने
unused भेजे में रख,
उसे हर जगह ढो रही होती।
बिना चाय के ये ज़िन्दगी
अपना मिठास खो रही होती।

अगर चाय ना होता, तो क्या होता?
Actually ना, fuck it.
मैं क्युं ना उसपर Topic divert करुं?
सब तो उसी के नाम पर बकवास करते है।

अगर चाय ना होता तो क्या होता?
अगर चाय ना होता तो क्या होता?
अरे भैया वही होता,
जो मंज़ूर ए खुदा होता।

– अभिषेक गुप्ता।

Zindagi Kaisi Hai – Funny Poem

Jab koi mujhse puchta hai
Ke aur bata bhai, zindagi kaisi hai.

Main bas kehta, aise kahun toh zindagi sexy hai.
Par sach kahun toh aisa lagta zindagi ek khataari taxi hai.

Dost toh kayi hai jo khud ko mera jigri bataate hai.
Par asli dost toh wahi hai jisne lagaayi meri proxy hai.

Waise toh main dikhta kaafi serious kisam ka hoon.
Par agar jhaank ke dekhoge meri zindagi mein,
toh yahi kahoge ke iski life toh ek joke si hai.

Koi relevance nahi, koi kaam nahi,
Zindagi bilkul facebook ke feature poke si hi.

Mohabbat aur mera rishta bikul,
Tu tu main main ki nok jhonk si hai.

Zindagi ye saali meri bilkul,
Jaise ek bohot hi lame joke si hai.
Jaise ek bohot hi lame joke si hai.

-Abhishek Gupta

Waited

You waited, but s/he never came back. Ykw sometimes people don’t come back & that’s okay, because they’re not supposed to be back.

-Abhishek Gupta

Ghosts

I was told to write what would I do if I was a ghost, but am I not a ghost already? When you die, your soul leaves your body, and the ones who get stuck in this world, we call them ghosts. That’s what people believe, right? But what do we call people whose souls have been torn apart umpteen times, whose dreams have been crushed ever since they were a kid. Aren’t these people dead already, inside. Aren’t these people, ghosts too, Just like me?

-Abhishek Gupta

Doomsday

If people will get time from hating each other over religion and language, and if they’ll actually start thinking about the things out there, the voidness out there, the fact that earth is like a dust particle out in the space and that you don’t even know what’s coming for us, they’ll finally be “woke” af. You never know when a big ass asteroid will come and wipe us all out like it wiped out the existence of dinosaurs. If you look at the sky at night, and think about these things you’ll get chills down your spine. But here we are, in this god forsaken world, where people kill each other in the name of religion, which doesn’t even matter, because when this world will end, and it will end someday, it won’t matter what religion you follow, what’s your skin color, white, black or brown. Nothing would matter because nothing would be left. We, humans, are like dust particles if compared to the size of earth, and earth is like a dust particle in our milky way, and milky way is like a dust particle, actually we can’t even guess size of milky way because space is infinite. If people actually start considering these facts, this world will become a happier place to live in. When I lie down and look at the stars at night, all I can think of is that how lucky we’re, that we’re all alive here, how lucky we’re that we live in a planet which is placed at perfect place amongst all the other planets, which makes it the best place where life forms and flourish, but then I also realize that we’ll be the doom of this world, humanity is it’s curse, because no one cares about the nature. We’re killing our nature, our water bodies, this world where we’re supposed to live and let our future generations live. I sometimes ponder, how is this world going to end? Will it be us or something from the outside? To get the answer, all we can do is wait. Till then, breathe, live and let others live peacefully.

-Abhishek Gupta

Do not give up on yourself

This post is dedicated to everyone who is struggling with the weight they’ve put on and who do not feel good about themselves anymore. Here’s my message for y’all. You’re not alone. We will get through this, together. Just don’t give up yet. You can, and you will beat this and get back in shape again, if that’s not the motive, then you will become fit and healthy again, just don’t give up on yourself.

I have been struggling with my weight since last one year. I know, you might think “but he ain’t obese, he looks fine”, but I’m not. I’m opening up today, because today I realized that I was getting more depressed, day by day because I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror anymore, for it just reminded me how fit I used to be. My weight used to range between 55-60 till 2015. But then 2016 turned out to be a very depressive year, and since then I’ve not been the same. My current weight is 83. In medical terms, I’m almost obese, which my body is not accepting and I’ve been facing a lot of health issues because of that. I tried to get back in shape again, I failed at it. I tried again, I failed again. This cycle went on and on until finally I decided to give up. I was scared to hit the gym again because I was afraid I’ll fail again, and because of that I never went to the gym for almost 3 months, even after paying all the fees. I was afraid to fall. I am STILL afraid, to fall, but then I recalled some wise words of Alfred, which he told to Bruce when he almost gave up on everything, “why do we fall, sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.” And today was the day to pick myself up again. I went to the gym today, I was still depressed when I entered the gym, thinking this wouldn’t change anything, I’m going to fail again. But then I started working out, and it all started to come back to me, the positivity. Once I was done, after a sweaty hour of work out, everything felt different, I felt positive. Now I realize, it was not about the weight I’ve put on, it was all about what I felt about myself. Now I know, that I can change this, that I CAN and I WILL be fit again. I don’t care about the physique, it’s all about staying fit and healthy.

What I want you to take from this is the positivity. It’s all about that ONE STEP which you are hesitating to take, because of the fear of failure. We all fail, and that’s how we learn, that’s how we grow. Don’t fear the failure. TAKE THAT ONE STEP, AND EVERYTHING WILL CHANGE. Trust me. You’re amazing, and I have faith in you. You can do anything you want. It’s just about your will power and that one step which you need to take.

#YouAreAmazing #DontGiveUp

#YouCanDoIt #LoveYourself

-Abhishek Gupta

Jhonka Hawa Ka

मेरे आँगन में
काफी पेड़ पौधे है।
हर दिवस मैं देखता हूँ
के कुछ पत्ते अपने
रंग को खो, सूख जाते है।

और वो सूखे पत्ते
उन हरे पत्तों की
खूबसूरती पर पर्दा
बन जाते है।

झोंका हवा का आता है,
और अपने साथ उन सूखे
पत्तों को उड़ा ले जाता है।

काश ऐसा ही कुछ हम
इंसानो के साथ भी होता।
वो बीते लम्हे जो हमारे
ज़िन्दगी में नशत के लमहो
को ठहरने ना देते है।

कोई हवा का झोंका आता
उन्हें भी अपने साथ ले जाता
तो शायद हम भी यूं अर्सो
महव-ए-यास ना रहते।

-अभिषेक गुप्ता