Travel Diaries - Wanderlust!

I took a small break from writing, and now I am back with my new write-up. 

This topic is now obsolete and almost like a dream, a flight-of-fancy. We are not sure when can we get back to the normal life style that each one of us was enjoying. The biggest happiness in one's life these days is to wake up alive in the morning. If you have a home to live, food to eat and family members to care for you, consider yourself as the luckiest person in this world. 

I personally love to travel, explore new places and taste different kinds of food. I have travelled a lot within the country, and each time I have travelled I have had an amazing experience. I mostly like to visit hill stations and places where there is lot of greenery. It is important have those memories captured in the mind and cherish it through out our life. 

I am suffering from wanderlust! 🙂

Travelling before marriage and after marriage is two different kinds of experiences. Was fortunate to have had surrounded myself with like-minded people. When you are single, you will have freedom to travel with your friends unless you belong to an orthodox family where you are not allowed to travel with friends. Especially, socializing with a group of friends who has an equal number of boys and girls is prohibited. We should try to travel as much as possible when we are single. 

Never miss an opportunity to explore new places or visit your favourite spots when you can afford it. Few cannot afford it as they cannot afford it economically, and a few cannot afford it as they cannot take time out of their busy schedule. If you can afford it either way, then don't hesitate to utilise this privilege. There is no point in earning so much if we are not enjoying the amount of money. We are not meant to pay EMIs all our life. And finally when we get some time to enjoy it, we would have lost our health. 

There are three types of couples :

1. Couples who love to travel - Both have similar travel interest and the level of excitement and enthusiasm for travelling is same.

2. Couples in which either husband or wife doesn't like to travel - It becomes stressful to the one who likes to travel to make up his/her mind to travel. It may lead to fights. Until the one who has no interest to travel gets convinced, another would have lost interest and patience. The one who is interested in travelling finds ways to travel and ends up planning trips with friends. 

3. Couples who don't like to step out of their house - They don't like to travel and mingle with anyone. Love to stay at home all the time where they would have hanged a 'DO NOT DISTURB' board virtually. Like to follow eat, sleep, irritate other people in the house, get irritated by other people in the house and sleep pattern. Only god knows what they will be doing all the time inside their house. Pandemic or normal situation, their attitude of staying inside the home remains the same. They were and are quarantined for life irrespective of the need of doing so. It doesn't even make any difference to other people around them whether they are at home or not. 

I would say we should plan trips frequently. At Least twice a year. We should save some money just to travel around the world or atleast near places. If you are unmarried, then never miss an opportunity to travel with your friends whenever a trip is planned. Do not think much. Just go, enjoy and explore yourself. Just see how you feel when you set yourself free and have some 'ME' time. Try different type of local food and enrol yourselves for some adventure.

Most of us cannot afford to get some time off from our mechanical life. We work on weekends if the workload is more. Work more than 9 hours a day at the office, and we will have to manage household chores also. Now that we are not going to the office and most of us wor k from home, we end up working more than 12+ hours, which includes office and household chores. We stick to the computer due to back-to-back meetings. Most of us need to deliver our work with stringent deadlines.

It is absolutely essential to dedicate some time to have 'WE' time with family. Feel free to take off from work when you are stressed out. Do not wait for holidays or some specific time to schedule the trip. Take off and travel when you need it the most. Travelling fresh'n ups the mind. We may get into unnecessary fights with family and get irritated with small things. All these things can be avoided if we take break from work often to freshen up the mind. This is the time you can play and enjoy your favorite songs in the car, sip a hot cup of tea in local tea stalls, do some shopping etc.

We need not necessarily travel from one city to another or one state to another state. We don't have to spend a huge amount of money to travel. One can plan a long drive. Drive within 100 kms. Just enjoy the cool breeze and come back home. It feels so good when you do this. Most of the times, instant travelling works out. Just pack your bags and keep moving. These days finding hotels and arranging everything which is required to travel is easy. With the Google map it's easier to reach the destination.  

It is added advantage if you have good group of friends, like-minded neighbours, colleagues, school friends, college friends etc. It is always good to have company while travelling. We can enjoy more if the bandwidth matches. Taking kids out often makes them explore the world in early age. They will learn new things, learn about nature, new culture, food habits etc.

This pandemic situation has thought us many lessons of life. Whatever we are planning to do it, do it right away is possible. If you have little money, health, family and friends then this is the moment to live your life. 

First thing that everybody should do after this pandemic ends is to learn to live the life to its fullest. Do not waste your precious time waiting for something good to happen instead create one such happy moment. Start being happy right away! Nothing else is worth it! Go create your own album of memories! What are you waiting for ????

Stay safe! Stay happy! Enjoy your life to its fullest!

See you in my next blog.