In conversation..

मुझको भी तरकीब सिखा यार जुलाहे
- Gulzar

अकसर तुझको देखा है कि ताना बुनते
जब कोइ तागा टुट गया या खत्म हुआ
फिर से बांध के
और सिरा कोई जोड़ के उसमे
आगे बुनने लगते हो
तेरे इस ताने में लेकिन
इक भी गांठ गिराह बुन्तर की
देख नहीं सकता कोई


मैनें तो ईक बार बुना था एक ही रिश्ता
लेकिन उसकी सारी गिराहे
साफ नजर आती हैं मेरे यार जुलाहे..


“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”- Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind.


I love how the same thought is expressed in both the above quotes, though in different forms, different genres and different languages. Can one really mend the broken fences?
I am interested in the continuity of thought, when I read one the other just comes to my mind as if it was a conversation that I had witnessed.
I have always been the person who kept a diary of any quotes, lines, passages that I found interesting. And on many a Sundays and holidays I just go and revisit them. And it gives me a certain happiness when i can see a continuity or resemblance in some seemingly unrelated pieces, its like a conversation with my diary...