Rambling on... again..

कभी यूँ भी तो हो मेरे कुछ कहने से पहले तुम मुझे गले लगा के छुओं मेरे आने वाले आंसूयो को अपने चिलमन में यूँ बुनो मेरी अंकही बातों को तुम अपने दिल में यूँ सुनो मैं कौन हूँ मेरे सपने हैं क्या तुम मुझसे ज़्यादा उनको जीयो मेरे छोटे छोटे अरमानो को तुम समझो खुदा का फ़रमान और मेरी नादानियों को तुम मानो इश्क़ का सम्मान कभी मुझे लगे की तुम मेरे बिन शायद अधूरे हो कभी मुझे लगे तुम्हारे बिन ये रैना बहुत अंधेरी है कभी यूँ भी तो हो....

I remember hearing this song when i was in my MBA days.. dont remember the title or for that matter the singer either... just these 2 lines stuck in my head... Oh why are we... so blind to see... That the ones we hurt... are you and me... Its the truest statement and assessment for almost every relationship i have been a part of or even observed closely. The people who hurt us the most are always the ones we care about the most - and vice versa. Of course its self-explanatory why it hurts more.  but a bigger tragedy is when we kind of start ignoring each other... or taking the US for granted. Because you can recover from a difference of opinion, but not from your partner not having an opinion at all on things which matter to you, or sometimes YOU.  So i guess thats enough of a context to explain why the lines below were coming to me a few days back... When the hug gets a little loose,  The conversations get a bit stilted When the presence makes you wish for ab