Soulic Rhythms

হেথা যে গান গাইতে আসা আমার হয় নি সে গান গাওয়া-- আজো কেবলি সুর সাধা, আমার কেবল গাইতে চাওয়া। আমার লাগে নাই সে সুর, আমার বাঁধে নাই সে কথা, শুধু প্রাণেরই মাঝখানে আছে গানের ব্যাকুলতা। আজো ফোটে নাই সে ফুল, শুধু বহেছে এক হাওয়া। আমি দেখি নাই তার মুখ, আমি শুনি নাই তার বাণী, কেবল শুনি ক্ষণে ক্ষণে তাহার পায়ের ধ্বনিখানি। আমার দ্বারের সমুখ দিয়ে সে জন করে আসা-যাওয়া। শুধু আসন পাতা হল আমার সারাটি দিন ধ'র-- ঘরে হয় নি প্রদীপ জ্বালা, তারে ডাকব কেমন ক'রে। আছি পাবার আশা নিয়ে, তারে হয় নি আমারা পাওয়া।

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set; only there is the agony of wishing in my heart

I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house

But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house; I live in the hope of meeting with him; but this meeting is not yet.

The song I came to sing remains unsung to this day. I have spent my days in stringing and in unstringing my instrument.

The time has not come true, the words have not been rightly set only there is the agony of wishing in my heart

I have not seen his face, nor have I listened to his voice; only I have heard his gentle footsteps from the road before my house

But the lamp has not been lit and I cannot ask him into my house I live in the hope of meeting with him but this meeting is not yet.

It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots,

I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life.

I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.

The hardest thing you will have to do in life is to let go of the people you may want to hold onto.

Sometimes, you will have to settle for loving someone from a distance, and that is okay.

Because if you cannot show up for another human being the way you know you should, if someone cannot love you the way you need to be loved right now, if circumstance or space or the messiness of life is getting in the way of giving your whole self and nothing less than that to another human being, then you have to be honest.

Do not suffocate your love. Do not ignore the way someone makes you feel about yourself in order to keep them in your life, do not ask for something to be more than it can be right now.

Instead, appreciate it for what it was, appreciate the lessons it grew within you, appreciate the beauty you were able to feel, and appreciate the fact that in those ways, in those memories, it will be yours forever.

Love is awful. It’s awful.

It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do.

It’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. So no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own.

I was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. People talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. But I’m not sure that’s true. It takes strength to know what’s right. And love isn’t something that weak people do. Being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope.

I think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.