Saturday, December 16, 2006

Speechless...Sleepless...Thoughtless...

I am about to leave Normal for my beloved home, aamchi Mumbai and people I have befriended for the last 22 years ! 2 hours later I will board the Charter bus for Chicago and sleep is the last thing on my mind right now...

My mind has been wandering around the streets which have seen me grow from a tiny 5yr old kid to a 21yr old about-to-explore-the-world type of a person. I have virtually walked around the whole area thanks to the amazing Wikimapia ( Wiki + Google Maps) I have been pre-living all the moments I will come across when I will strut down those memory lanes and its been a roller coaster process. Words fail me when I have to think about how it is going to be ...but 1 thing's for sure, its going to the best trip of my life.

There have been many times when I have been up at this time ( 4.37am) for assignments, work and also at times due to pure lack of sleep. There have been times I have left my home in Normal for the bus to go to Chicago and catch a flight..but nothing comes even close to what the magnitude and importance of this venture...

498 days it has taken for this feeling to come upon me and this journey has been a true odyssey. 22 years of life, friends, ups and down. This moment has captured it all...in all its true majesty..

All I can think right now is to not think about anything ..just absorb every moment as it comes ..and live it up larger than life itself...

Life doesnt get any rosier than this...

Its time to Think Mumbai, Dream Mumbai and Live Mumbai ...

Instant remembrance of one of my favorite songs...
My folks, my friends, my sweetheart and all those eagerly waiting for me ..."Here I am...on the road again...there i am...up on the stage....here i go ...being star again ..there i go ..Turn the Page !" ...

Truly its time to Turn the Page and live out the past in the present...

2 comments:

Pallavi P said...

hey kd dis is beautiful..dis is exactly wat evrybody coming home aftr 1.5 yrs of studies n in usa must hv felt...

Victim Of Desire said...

good one...i went after 2.5 years..guess the line of my song will change to 'turn two pages' :)..