It is an awesome feeling to turn off all the alarms on your phone and go to the bed without thinking of the next day being a Monday. Yessss, I have finally overcome my Monday blues obviously because I don't have to go to work. So as soon as I hit the bed, I was asleep like a baby with no worries. Next day morning, I finished with my last minute packing and felt no anxiety to travel. Weird right? May be I already found my inner peace. ;p
Finally got into a taxi and left for the airport. The drive from my place to the airport takes almost the same time I will take to get to Delhi or Chandigarh from Mumbai. It is a long drive with crazy Mumbai traffic but thankfully people don't honk that often so it is a peaceful ride. Life in Mumbai is fast, everyone is running either to work or to get their chores going. Looking at all these people, I was thinking thank God I am off for a while. I really need a break to feel what it is like to breath, to do nothing and live for a while. I feel fresh as the morning dew, as energetic as a young cub who plans to go hunting all by himself. I want to explore a new place, a new culture, do some random things, and obviously shoppppp. So I decided to go and visit my BFF staying in Mandi (Himachal) to bask in nature's glory.
The excitement and the delight of meeting old friends is beyond description. The funny thing is you might be meeting them after a year or so but the discussion starts from where you had left it last time. Same feelings, same tempo, same energy and that same carefree attitude, as if you are young again. It's like you are time travelling in a time machine and we are back in 2007. It's funny how we cherish small things in life and laugh and joke over them for the rest of our lives. I guess that's what friendship is about.
A 12 hours long journey to reach Mandi was tiring for sure but the company made it easy. The journey was smooth till Chandigarh and then the adventure of the ghats started. Scary turns, traffic from both the sides was crazy, but fun. Thankfully our bus had proper heating so it was warm and we could almost sleep through the whole night. Finally, early morning we reached Mandi and I could smell the freshness in the air. Everything was dark and cold, very cold........ And I was shivering. We took an auto to get home and the ride was chilling and freezing. There was nothing more than a hot cup of tea and a warm bed to recover from the cold wave...............
To be continued......
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