Preserving each moment with an unforgettable story!
Every year on 15th of September, for the past few years, I have been updating my travel list as a recap to all the places I have been in the previous year. This is my way of keeping the count on. Here’s a little secret—all these didn’t start until May of 2016. So in this much time, the count looks decent. Isn’t it?
While we were still learning and unlearning about friendships and relationships, a sudden, new-age relationship emerged, which I’d like to call as Absentee Relationship – this again has a varied degree of customization among people.
On 30th September 2018, we started our five days of cruise trip to cover the Balearic Islands with one of the most popular cruise lines in the world, the Royal Caribbean International, in ‘Vision of the Seas’ from the Port of Barcelona.
Although I am not a fast learner when it comes to matters of life, what I have learned from this book is, it’s important to define personal policies. I already have one. This article is about winding my way to define the second one.
I was a very popular person when I was younger and delighted in making friends. In hindsight, I realize that my friendships were my world and frankly a much too important part of my identity.
We have found a new profession of defining how an intelligent person should think, how a sensible person should speak, or how a self-aware person should look. If my personal choices and actions differ from yours then I am not good enough because the benchmark has been set.
Learning this, with the help of angry people, has been my biggest quest in recent years. They are too many in number. In fact, I was one of them few years ago—not too violent but I knew my temper wasn’t pleasing either.
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore wrote Where the mind is without fear after the partition of Bengal, at the time when talks of declaring India as an independent nation were happening. This poem described his idea of a new India, an awakened one.
I wish I could take each of them and show them around like I have experienced everything till now. But I have a feeling they wouldn’t have liked that. They are happy with what they have.
“Hello! You there?”, suddenly a voice queried. It derailed me from the train of thoughts I was in. For a moment, I thought who could that be, who would want to look for a soulless body?
Moments to Stories 