Trip to Home!

Hello homies,

I have an amazing experience to share with you guys, few days back I visited my home in Chennai. Huh? Confusing? Don’t I live in Delhi? Am I not already at home for the past 6 months?

Surprisingly I am but I spent my childhood more in Chennai than in Delhi that I can remember. While I was spending those 8 years, I never thought I would miss it to the extent that I wouldn't mind booking a flight during the pandemic.

Five days of the trip and yet it didn’t feel enough, although every day felt like experiencing those 8 years of school life again.

Before I begin to take you through the trip, I’d like to share an observation I had in Delhi on the day of the flight before I departed.

(This was after we had clear sky)

I had booked a morning flight on 16th January, so that I could utilize the entire day but turns out my flight got delayed due to the bad weather (Fog in winters!!) (lesson learnt) (I felt like crying). I did notice something while my dad was driving through that fog, I mean you could barely see anything, not even the path.

For a minute, it occurred to me that our life is like driving in that fog. At times perhaps, you know the path you are taking, like you have it all planned (degree in three years, then job then settle) and sometimes you don’t (let me finish the degree first, we’ll see, what to do later), but what you don’t know for sure is that anything can be expected from life waiting ahead because you can’t see it anyhow as you know future is unpredictable.

In confusing times, you tend to start confirming with others by following their path and using their car’s headlight because the headlight of your car does not seem sufficient enough (My friend is planning to do master’s, maybe I’ll do that too until I figure out what’s next). However, that is not exactly the right path too because if the car you are following clashes, so does yours. Alert!!!

It is needed to drive and live with your senses. It is okay to go slow until the path further seems clear to you because driving without being able to see the path definitely can be very risky. Nevertheless, sometimes perhaps you got to take that calculated risk using your judgements to move forward. You could stop the car and wait until you are not ready to take the risk but that will only drive you nowhere, YOU MAY MISS THE FLIGHT, my friend!!

Well, I didn’t miss my flight because my dad was adamant and smart enough to drive through that fog although we could have hit the divider twice, as I told you, couldn’t see a thing and the results of the trip were amazing and I will share the details soon.

To be continued…..

PS: take that step, you have been waiting to take for a very long time….