Travelling...A Rediscovery of home

A journey in which you forget about the reality and start fantasizing the complete paradigm. As a traveler you find yourself a lot more ambitious and curious. Ambitious, I want to see this and curious, what I will be seeing next. Every time when you leave your home to visit a new place you look for something extraordinary in ordinary. You look for pastures greener, water lot deeper, history a lot more gratifying, world a lot more real or perhaps a lot more natural and many more. It happens as if you are living in a dream and you want to enjoy every single bit of it before you wake up and go to your daily routine that you are already accustomed with. Often when I plan to travel, there are many questions that hover in me. Some of them are what kind of people are there, what they speak, how they live and probably the most important one what they eat. At that point in time yes it showcases that I am excited but it is a kind of excitement in ambivalence with a share of nervousness that what exactly am I supposed to get.

Before finalizing I go on to surf different pages on the internet. I see places nearby to the destination I am planning to and when I am done with it a small curve is there on my face. A feeling that sometimes can only be felt and can never be reflected.

Last night I went to a coffee shop near salt lake I was sitting and enjoying a lonely planet one young girl probably 9 years old came in and asked me you like travelling Dada and I said yes dear very much. She said same here. I had a smile on my face. She questioned what is travelling to you. I took a pause what shall I answer to this young beauty and I replied it's a feeling which I can't describe. It not only the journey that I went through it's the life I discovered and believe me you dear the more I explore the more I fall in love with this country. I said this because this country has probably the best amalgamation of culture, people, food, climate and nature. I would have had said something different if any elder had asked me but maybe this lovely princess needed a more honest one than a theoretical.

I feel lucky that my last journey was to the extremely enduring Kashmir valley. I really do. Forget about all of the tensions I went through. That was a memorable one and I believe after that journey that no place has a lesser charm. Every single place has something special in store for us. It simply developed a sense in my mind that every place or every moment I will face I will cherish it. I have been unsuccessful in my life but sometime learning is the best way to become successful and I believe me travelling hold the best suitable idea to get motivated and fight. At least it will refresh you for once so that you can give a fresh start again. We as a human are so small and this world is so much unexplored. When you think and think a lot you see that the whole country itself is our home and we haven't explored our home yet. Funny isn't it? So each of our trips is actually rediscovering our own beautiful home.

When you complete your journey it's not only restricted to the happiness and the satisfaction you get it's more about rediscovering yourself, your notions and your rules. You get a more realistic understanding of your own identity. Of course home is a place which defines a comfort zone for you and hence it is extremely important to get out of it and envisage to all the glorified beauty this motherland has in store for us. When you look at the journey you see no compromise in comparison with what we do in our normal itinerary of life. In the complete journey yes you negotiate with the time and the amount you spend but you want to extract the maximum out of it.

Lastly, there is no other land which provides this brilliant contrast of beautification right from the great Himalayas in the north to the Indian Oceans in the south. A great fusion of so many things. A great blend of so many rediscoveries yet to be witnessed. Let's explore let's travel.