Growing Up

There's always childishness around... and travelling is a breath of life... I love the adrenaline rush...  The adrenaline rush to see places... To see a different sunrise, a different sunset... Places I could only think of...  Dreams which I had... Trying hard to keep the dreams alive... I travel again to live the dream... It is nearly time to say goodbye to 2017, a year which has somehow not been easy. I did some memorable trips at the start of the year but later half had been pretty boring after I went under the knife for a surgery. It was only three months but that tingling feeling of travelling to places was growing.  Dates were decided but we kept on changing the destination every day. Gokarna, Pondicherry, Kodaikanal, Coorg and finally Ooty was voted for, one of the most filmed locations in India(i still fail to believe, are we short of hill stations or this place was cheap for the filmmakers). No doubt this place is any photographer's deli...

It  wasn't a great day to travel, flight getting delayed by almost 4hrs and then the heavy rain made it worse for the cab to go on brisk pace. Finally the cab came to a halt. The cab service had improved considerably, i could see the Houseboard hanging on the iron gate, asked the cab driver if the payment was done or not. He answered " haan ma'am aapke paytm se hogaya payment " . Shakily i picked my only bag and stepped out, it was only a small bag, i hadn't planned to stay long but as it is the bag seemed heavier than what i had carried to my trip to Europe. The house looked the same, except the paint had been worn out, the rain cluttered my mind so much that i couldn't think of anything. The door bell was still the same, i wondered if it still worked. I took a moment to hold my nerve, i had never imagined him to be weak. He was always my hero, on his broad shoulders i had seen so many fairs, year after year. I always wondered how he was nev...

It was a silent night. The fan slowly creaked making the only noise in the so called pin drop silence. With no wind gushing through the window it was fair to call “main aur meri tanhai, aksar ye baatein karte hain”, it was just start of the season and I could feel the long summer it would be. This wall clock reminded me of her chimes 2 with 2 hoots, it’s an old clock, maybe more old than the time I was here in this city, which is still a stranger to me.  People say to get up at the brahma muhurat for a reason, coz nothing good happens at this time of the night. I partly agree to it, but as it is nothing good happens in my life nowadays, the added dryness in the air making it hard for me to sleep, not that it really matters anyways. These smartphones have made my life so demanding, when you see someone posting stuff on social sites, but then I ask myself are they really happy or maybe it must be a phase which they want to share. I switch off my phone, move towards the...

I looked up and smiled, this embarrassment was good I thought... There are moments when you suddenly remember an incident which forces you to double check it. This girl sat next to me and just when the flight was about to take off and suddenly she clasped her hands on the arm rest and somehow it touched my hand. I slowly and steadily tried getting my hand off the place.  It was in the fourth year, I had not seen Gaurav for the last two days and that too a weekend.  There’s was sudden knock at my door. “Dude!! Open the door” I knew it was Gaurav, taking my own sweet i opened my room and asked him sarcastically “ Kaha se aarha hai tu” with a sly smile on my face. A characteristic which is very common to all friends. A guy meets a girl and his friends decide on his marriage, children and his future with the girl. I would say we are too caring for our friends.  He almost barged in my room and said “Dude!!! I want to talk to you” “...

Golden temple is one such place where the crowd is never ending, but today it was too crowded. It had to be, Purnima nights are always hell packed. I had come to this place almost a thousand times by now and always wished to say no to friend who visited me but I had to bring them here anyhow. I was standing after putting my shoes on the rack and waited for Aditi. I heard a thud, a man had fainted just behind us. It was hard to make out what really happened, just then Aditi made her move and the next thing I saw, she was near the guy checking his pulse and I knew the oath that every doctor takes has already overpowered here. I closed in along with her. The lad must be in his early thirties or say late twenties, how does it matter really  “Please! Make way... I am a doctor. Let me take a look at him!” I heard her loud noise and all the calculation about the age of this lad went out the window. she started with the pulse, to be frank he seemed too normal to me, j...

I don’t travel abroad on a daily basis so I was excited and I am sure I didn't know how to hide it. Gaurav and I had planned it for like ages now. He would be boarding the same flight from Bangalore. I had reached Delhi airport before time, it was an achievement for me. I have never reached airports on time. As I checked in the lady printed the boarding pass after some enquiry and gave a small blue paper to be filled up for immigration. I being a thorough professional when it comes to traveling had checked all the necessary documents to be carried. Just then my phone rang “ oye, did u reach”.  “Yes, do u think I would miss it for my life?” I replied “Ur history speaks for you, anyways board the flight and ping me” “Roger, dude” and I left that slip on the desk itself unknowingly. In a hurry I made my way to the immigration line, it was not a line, I would say it was liiiiiiine. I was just wondering is the whole of India planning a trip today, simultaneously ch...