اظہار Expressing yourself

Expressing one's mind is not an easy task, for starters you are not sure if you would be understood by the other person, and secondly you need to put in an effort to make that abstract presentable to whom you want to present. 

Some of us try to do this, and are not able to do so for any reason, could be one or could be a few. After being unable to express themselves, a lot of the people just stop and start to go with whatever is the easy thing. Giving up the idea of expressing yourself is easy, you become easily accepted since you force yourself to conform to the standards of acceptability, and you join the huge chunk of population who are just going in with the flow. You get to live the average life, you talk what makes sense to the society (even though you disagree with things, you choose to not talk about them), happiness is what is classified as happiness for the common man. These days happiness can be readily seen on social media, smiling faces, photos of mouth watering food, beautiful places and people so happy together; almost flawless, "almost" 

Because that photo does not tell what happened in the seconds that elapsed before or the ones which followed it before, so it remains a mystery and that is what it makes almost flawless. But you can argue that there are videos on the social media too! But don't they only offer a glimpse of what is happening or can you see it all 24/7? 😲

So you stop expressing yourself, you don't have to spend time and energy to transform that abstract into a painting for others to see and you don't have to deal with the criticism and insults about people not being able to understand. 

But when you find someone who can understand you, and respect your ideas and thoughts, then what?

I will leave it at that, and you can fit it however you like. 

Here's a recent poem that I wrote in urdu, have a read if you like. 

                                                                                           اظہار

                                                                   اظہارِ سوچ کروں تو کس سے کروں؟
                                                                   حالِ دل بیان کروں تو کس سے کروں؟

                                                                        بات یوں تو سیدھی سادی سی ہے
                                                                 بات کرنی ہو تو بیٹھک ہماری خالی ہے

                                                             توقعات کے اک سمندر میں تیرتے جارہے ہیں
                                                        نامِ بحر جو زندگی رکھا ہے سو تیرتے جارہے ہیں

                                                                        یوں تو کچھ ذیادہ نہیں چاہتے ہیں بس
                                                                کوئی سوچ کو سمجھنے والا مانگتے ہیں بس