What will be your response when you got a transfer to a place and when you are mentally prepared to go you came to know that before going to that place you have to go somewhere else for few days? This was my condition when I got a transfer from Rajkot to Gurgaon. I was prepared for it then one fine day I got a call that says that I will have to join to Bombay on a fix date. Just next day I got a call that there is some emergency project is going in Bangalore so first go there. I ask when??? They said tomorrow.
I booked my flight from Bhopal to Bangalore through Mumbai and reached Bangalore.
I know many people just hate to travel. In fact this is a basic human tendency to resist change whether it’s in terms of city, atmosphere, food, people and your loved ones. People like to live in their own “comfort zone”, at their places, with “their kind” of people. And it’s true that why should we change something but contrary to common belief I like changes, I like travelling. Somewhere deep inside me lives a traveler, who likes to explore this world. I have wasted half of my life in getting a so called “decent” job and now when I got it, I want to live for myself.
Now I am going away from topic, i was talking about travelling. I really like travelling. I like the word “musafir” and like to listens all the songs based around such situation. I believe that every city, every temple, every structure and culture has a story to tell. There are many places where you can feel nature speaking. I always keep my laptop bag and a travel bag ready. In India, every 3-4 mile their is a different language, after every 4-5 mile there is different taste of water and at every 20-30 miles there is a different culture.
Why I like travelling this much, because apart from the fact that it gives me chance to explore the world but it also suits my nature. I don’t like to have attachments. It’s not that I don’t love people or I don’t have friends but I just don’t like to miss any one or anything. I don’t miss my family too. I know it sounds weird but that how I am (good or bad). Travelling gives me chance to meet new people, to witness new tradition. I always welcome changes. I know they are quite disturbing particularly when you are not willing to have one but they always bring something out of you. I remember in an interview Mr amitabh Bachchan said that “mann ka ho jaye to achcha ,na ho to aur achcha”…what a line…
One more reason I like to travel or like changes is that in my whole life time I made many friends, which came from different part of country and scattered back to different places. With all this travelling I get a chance to meet old friends. Whenever I get a chance to go to a place, first I will check who is their or which place I can visit or is there anything in
that place for which it is famous. I make it a habit that when I visit a place I try my best to have regional breakfast, lunch and dinner. Earlier I was in Gujarat, before that I was in MP and now I am in Karnataka and there is considerable difference between eating habits of peoples. Since I have to travel frequently (sometimes due to my job and sometimes due to my nature) so I made certain rules for myself:(1) Don’t be afraid to talk to strangers.
(2) When you are talking to a new person, try to take more detail about the place he belongs i.e. stories, famous peoples, myths.
(3) Always keep a camera with you so that you can keep some memories with you.
(4) Always check the sunrise and sunset of every place. This is to be said that sunrise and sun set of every place has some uniqueness.
(5) Always take regional breakfasts and lunch.
(6) Always visit the local temples (though god is same around the world but his face are different).
Things you can find in my luggage:
A laptop with photon (so that I can be connected to the world), A charger, A bed sheet, A diary, A novel and a phone full of songs and enough balance.
And yes toilet soap also.
For me the true life is to go one place to another, meet different kind of people, witness the small moments of life.
I believe that a man is living truly only when he is helping without expectation, talking without language barriers, he is doing something not because he has to do this but because he wants to do this.
It took 5 schools for me to complete my pre-college education. I was student in 2 colleges and teacher in two colleges. I visit to different cities earlier for job related interviews and now for company related meetings. I have visited many places and found many things very interesting. Despite having all the barriers of language, culture and rituals, basic problems and basic reasons to be happy are same. Doesn’t matter whether its Maharashtra or Karnataka, Parents always hold the hand of their children while crossing the road. Doesn’t matter whether its Gujarat or Kerala, initial few seats are reserved for ladies. This is the beauty of life isn’t it?
I love all such small things. I noticed all this by being a silent observer. My hobby of travelling gave me a lot of satisfaction and entirely a new way to look at the world.
There may be people who will not go for the words as satisfaction, joy, and pleasure and they may ask what I have got actually in life after all this travelling and so called “banjara” life so let me tell those people that now i have friends in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mohali, Rajkot, Ambala, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Pune and Mumbai . I have lots of home away from my home.
Let me give you an example of real life. When I was Rajkot I met a girl in a library who was good in gujarati and bad in hindi while I was good in hindi and worst in gujartai and now we are friends despite having a strong language barrier and lack of contents.
I understand one thing that it’s not the language through which you can communicate but the expression. If you are not taking risk, believe me you are losing a big part of life. If you will not talk to stranger, you will not loss anything but if you will talk you may get a friend and that’s the only thing which matters. Isn’t it?
I like to end the blog with few lines of a song which really justifies the journey of life:
Jindgi ka safar ajanabi ajanabi,
Sanso ki rah gujar ajnabi ajnabi,
Na mujhe hai khabar na tujhe hai khabar,
Chal rahe hum magar ajnabi,
Har najara har ishara naya naya hai,
Kaun jane hai sabera kahan,
Jarra jarra lamha lamha naya naya hai,
Kaun jane h basera h kahan,
Har shahar har dagar ajnabi ajnabi,
Na tujhe hai khabar na mujhe hai khabar,
Chal rahe hum magar ajnabi…
Allah hafiz…..
Epilogue:
Life is not just about having a good education, a decent job and marriage. In fact all these things are part of life not the whole life. Life is to laugh uncontrollably, to hold no grievance, to forgive yourself for all mistakes you did in past. Life is not about passing every moment in fact it’s about living every moment (there is a huge difference between the two).
Look at the things as if you are last time watching it, meet people in way a way as if tomorrow you will die and things will be different.
PS: (1) If you had seen the movie “up in the air” then put me in place of George clooney’s character and you will understand the soul of blog.
(2) This blog is sponsored by Yatra .com, which helps me find my buses, trains and flights.
