Author: Reena Saxena

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #70 Reena Saxena

ख्वाब देखता हूँ मैं
हर ख्वाब की ताबीर हो
यह लाज़मी तो नहीं ।१।

तेरे इश्क़ में भी मेरे
जुनूं की तासीर हो
यह लाज़मी तो नहीं ।२।

रंग भले सच्चे हों
सच्ची हर तस्वीर हो
यह लाज़मी तो नहीं ।३।

तेरी नज़रे ही काफ़ी हैं
क़त्ल के लिए शमशीर हो
यह लाज़मी तो नहीं ।४।

जो तू चाहता है अमित
वही उसकी तदबीर हो
यह लाज़मी तो नहीं ।५।

In response to: Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 71

We spend most of our lives thinking we need to get it right. Often it leads to many anxious moments especially when you realise we’ve basically stuffed something up.

Some people stress over not getting it right believing they are made to look foolish or incompetent in front of peers especially.

No one likes to be thought of as wanting and it takes a lot of ‘growing up’ to understand you can’t always get it right, you can’t always succeed and you have to learn to deal with failure.

When I was a drama teacher one of the sayings I used was to say to a student who had an idea for a performance to give it a go and see what happens.

Sometimes it didn’t work, but most times I found what might not be their best work could be adapted to produce something they were more often than…

Getting it right, how important is it?
Important in some ways but not really
As long as we try we have to commit
Getting it right, how important is it?
Do the best we can for our benefit
As long as it sparks joy and we’re free
Getting it right, how important is it?
Important in some ways but not really*

(c) ladyleemanila 2019

* Triolet

For: Reena’s Exploration Challenge #71

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I entered my grade 11 class at Holy Name of Mary, Catholic High School to see Robert holding his usual morning audience. Upon seeing me he shouted , ” Did you see your loser friend Jordan Peterson on YouTube last night , crying like a little baby”. My insides tensed and I felt like flying across the room and smacking him in the face. Instead I ignored him and walked to my seat. Jordan Peterson is a professor of psychology that I follow on YouTube. He suffers from depression and occasionally cries when he get emotional over issues concerning the plight of young men with a lack of direction in their lives.

The first lesson of the day started and my mind kept drifting to the writings of Kosho Roshi that I had been pondering the previous night. What did he mean when he wrote, ” when I took my…