Had one of those unfocused, disengaged, unproductive days. This shair is making its rounds in my head:

koi meray dil se poochay teray teer-e-neem-kash ko
ye khalish kahan se hotee, jo jigar k paar hota

bah.

And this:

teri nazuki se jaana k bandha tha ehd-e-boda
kabhi tu na tor sakta agr ustawar hota

is my fear of being unfocused.

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I get fully well what Ghalib was referring to instead.


One quick point about Cognitive Psychology, Encoding Memory and Retrieval of Memory:

We encode memory to our long term memory store by the meaning of the words and/or phrases. Retrieval means either the meaning itself or (in the case of partial retrieval) other memories associated with it have been accessed. In this case, the idea of 'not fully getting something' is how I seem to have encoded that shair, or at least, the shair activates other experiences of not having fully gotten things - an unengaged, unproductive day being one of them.

Short term memory on the other hand encodes memory based on the characteristics such as, rhyme-ability, visual of the word(s) etc. That is not to say rhyme and visuals do not help encode anything to the long term memory, but meaning trumps them all in quality. Short term memory has a much smaller capacity both in terms of size and how long it can be stored.