Life is Beautiful

So I came to a new country last week to settle for a year. The office remains almost same as in India, a little less facilities may be e.g. no free coffee vending machines. Singapore it is. I was excited about this. I always wanted to settle into a new country on my own. I always wanted to see the life abroad.  I was super excited.  I was earning and saving decent in India and had a higher paying job offer, and many close friends there. I had a fully setup beautiful home to stay and a familiar and friendly flatmate, who was at times, a great company.  I had everything figured out in India I felt, I knew of great shopping destinations offline and online. I had a huge collection of dresses and shoes and handbags and you name anything. I was in love with my possessions. I had my family nearby.  But I wanted to come out of my comfort zone and experience a new dimension of life. I was always curious about how people in other country stay.  So I gave up my comfortabl...

Sometimes  I go back in time, when you were a titillating sensation. When I was so lost in present , I could not think about consequences, which could be bright or dark or a mixture. I just loved the present. I liked you, I wanted you, I was missing you sitting right beside you. I wanted to be in present, I wanted to follow my heart, without thinking of past and future. The present moment was the only truth I knew. But then reality struck, an ugly painting of past, future and present. Or maybe reality was still present, but the virtual reality of past made my present gloomy. Maybe past overshadowed my present. My heart was intertwined among past, present and future. Today I realize present was always simple and beautiful. Thought of separating from the past, apprehensions of future made my present complex. My present did not fit in my past and apprehensive future. Past was gone, future was yet to come and I ruined my present. Maybe the best I could have done was live a...

So I wanted to meet my dearest college friend Soni. We were close in college and became closer at our first workplace. We were at the same location for training. Then we we moved to different companies and then different cities. So we had hardly met in last few years, yet the modern day technology kept us close through phones and social media. It was end of the year and both of us wanted a break from routine life. Besides sharing each others secret, we do share common interest in travelling. She lived in Gurgaon and I lived in Bangalore. We decided to meet in Goa on a 5 day trip. Goa where we could be lost in nature and attend late night parties too. It is overwhelming to meet a person so close , after such a long time, a person who has seen you grow and has grown with you. All of us have one friend who knows us in and out, who we trust with our darkest thoughts and actions, without the fear of being judged. Soni is that kind of friend, we resonate thoughts, it is like when we a...