Feeling Blessed - Monday!
Yo, what is good? It’s been a minute! I think since I started this whole video series, I’ve never taken a break this long. Last time I posted a video was Wednesday. And a lot of you are probably like, “Yeah, you should take breaks more often. Your videos ain’t that good.” But hey, like I said, last week got busy. It got hectic. And mentally, emotionally, I was just like, “You know what? My thoughts are all over the place. I’m going to just take a little break. I could use a little bit of a breather.”
Obviously, we had Bhagat Ji’s Antam Sanskar (funeral) on Friday. Man, that was a beautiful, beautiful funeral. I can’t stress how beautiful a funeral that was. To all the Sardars who put that thing together, man, these guys captured Bhagat Ji’s essence to a tee. I think my favorite part of the funeral – and I know it’s weird saying my favorite part of the funeral, but there’s beauty in death, and I think we need to start, as a collective human race, recognize it. Bhagat Ji recognized the beauty of death because those are the conversations I had a lot with him when I was younger for the limited time I was around him. A lot of times, he’d just be talking to me about death and stuff. So I feel like the funeral they held for him was beautiful.
My favorite part… there were a few things that stood out, but my favorite part is when they started Moani because I was like, “Yes, this is who Bhagat Ji was!” That was my experience with Bhagat Ji. Every time I met Paji when I was a kid, the first thing he would make me do is Moani, then we’d do Shahidi Job, and then he’d be like, “Alright, now let’s go play, let’s go for a walk, let’s go outside.” The fact that this was all captured at the funeral, man, it was beautiful. The Singhs, the beyond, everyone who put this thing together, you guys did an outstanding job, and I just wanted to say that off the rip.
Then Saturday, we had a Keertan program at our house, and we haven’t had a Keertan program at our house in a while. We usually just run Taal Hahl, but we had one at our house, and that was fantastic. My kids absolutely loved it. Kaur, you’re one of my top five Keertanis of all time. We were clowning on her after; she’s like, “Shut up, man. You’re a loser.” I was like, “Alright, I am.” My other top seven Keertani was there, and I hadn’t seen him in ages. So, it was crazy there. Why am I saying that?
Anyways, it was a fun weekend with just all the family around, man. Listening to, you know, jamming, as they say. Just… yeah. So, that’s where I’ve been. I just needed a break. I was like, “Time to drift off a little bit. We’ll be back.” And here we are. And now we’re back to our daily doses of reality. I don’t know, I’ll see what I can think of. That’s pretty much it.
But it’s been cool seeing all the things that came down. And I got to meet up with some friends I haven’t seen in ages, man. Childhood friends that you grew up with when they’re tiny, and now they’re older with kids and wives, and you’re just like, “Man, we haven’t seen each other in what, 15 years, 10 years, 4 years, 6 months.” Give each other nice big hugs. Tell them you love them. I recognize that all you have are these little moments, these fleeting moments because I was thinking after, like, how many more times am I going to see this guy in my life? Maybe 10, 20, 15, who knows? But it was beautiful. That’s all I got to say. I had a beautiful weekend. Hopefully, you guys did too. Hopefully, you guys are all feeling as blessed as I am, at least. But hey, till the next one. Peace.
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