First time in Europe, and I had a movie playing in my head: golden light, cobbled lanes, a violin somewhere, everything dreamy and perfectly in order. That movie lasted about forty minutes in Rome. The real thing turned out to be better.
These quotes have resonated with me over time, serving as reminders and guidance for personal growth and decision-making.
This is a long-overdue travelogue post. This is a sequel to the post titled “THE ONE WITH THE HOBO, THE TREE MAN, THE HUNGRY HOG, MR. VERTIGO AND THE HEADMASTER” which I published on WordPress in early 2017. I thought I lost my draft notes from the trip, but recently found it when I was looking through one of my notes applications. Posting it verbatim.
Long long ago, one day we (Kevin, Sreevin and I) decided to go on an unplanned trip to Hyderabad. And so unplanned it was! Even though the vivid memories of that trip had faded away from my mind, I can still turn the pages back and read about the whole journey thanks to the travelogue I had written about that trip.
A word or an action from your past can trigger a chain of events that will define the course of your life many years later.
A story of lost love, lost hope, lost happiness and lost life.
“What if I can desert this body and dissolve with the wind. Flow along with it absorbing all that the world carries with it: all the love, the commotions, the chaos, the hatred, the care, everything. Can it make me feel complete ever again?”
SET RAIL TO HYDERABAD.. Me, Sreevin and Kevin, 7 October 2010. 14:00, Thrissur railway station: our mothers came to bid us goodbye, and an unplanned trip began.