🎵 Tum Jo Itna Muskura Rahe Ho by Jagjit Singh

If you were not a 24/7 smiling person, why have you become like that now? 

Do you know you don’t have to change yourself for someone who doesn’t care? And good people exist; it's like you haven’t met them yet. 

Look at yourself, the first good person is you.

Not because you’re a good son/daughter

Not because you’re a good friend

Not because you’re a good student

You’re good because you exist

You’re good because you inspire

You’re good because the world needs you

Your existence has a reason my love

Never doubt it

But tell me now 

‘tum jo itna muskura rahe ho, kya gham hai jisko chupa rahe ho?’

तुम इतना जो मुस्कुरा रहे हो, क्या ग़म है जिस को छुपा रहेहो

Not everybody doesn't pretends or care. Some actually care, it may be rare but yes it does exist, someone who will be there and ask you. Maybe the person hasn’t met you yet but the time isn’t so far away, okay? 

You think you’re so smart that you put up a brave smile and nobody would notice anything when your heart is crying and your eyes show everything? 

आँखों में नमी हँसी लबों पर, 

What you’re showing or pretending isn’t real. What is it that you’re hiding

Someday someone will see right through those tears, pain, and directly through your soul and that day you’ll realise you can be free to cry, be vulnerable whenever you want. 

क्या हाल है क्या दिखा रहे हो

तुम इतना जो मुस्कुरा रहे हो, क्या ग़म है जिस को छुपा रहेहो

That pain, that reason behind those tears isn’t a great thing. You’ve made comfort with the grief around you, you don’t have to come out and you want to go with the flow. Wake up, life can’t , at least a good life can’t work like that. The pain, the tears, the undone, unsaid things will keep growing and poison you like nothing else. 

The tears you’re hiding and swallowing will end you up. 

बन जाएँगे ज़हर पीते पीते,

ये अश्क जो पीते जा रहे हो

Now, will you tell me ? The reason behind those num eyes but a smiling face?

तुम इतना जो मुस्कुरा रहे हो, क्या ग़म है जिस को छुपा रहेहो

Time heals. It has numbed you at certain point where you don’t feel that same pain. But you’re still dwelling at that point, at that moment and scarping the past and hurting yourself. Don’t do it, stop hurting yourself

जिन ज़ख़्मों को वक़्त भर चला है, तुम क्यूँ उन्हें छेड़े जा रहेहो 

What is that moment that has turned you like this?

क्या ग़म है जिस को छुपा रहेहो

The lines of fate, destiny or alignments in palms are just games of life. They aren’t permanent, they aren’t written by god. So why are you reading and believing them? You’re deluding yourself, being defeated by themselves. 

रेखाओं का खेल है मुक़द्दर 

रेखाओं से मात खा रहे हो

What is that moment that has turned you like this?

क्या ग़म है जिस को छुपा रहेहो

तुम इतना जो मुस्कुरा रहे हो, क्या ग़म है जिस को छुपा रहेहो

What is that reason, just why?