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Regular travel, irregular circumstances

 I prefer traveling in train over bus and car, for it has washroom in it. I usually travel in train. Traveling in train 🚉 has become a routine for me. Everything is pre-planned. I plan every minute as to how I spend my time. If it's night journey not much planning is needed. Just food, bedsheet and pillow. If it's a day journey, elaborate planning is needed to make the most out of the Journey. If going to new places plan is simple, Lookout the window for beautiful unexplored places, capture pictures, Share photos on social media and talk to co-passengers. While traveling to familiar places it becomes monotonous. Hence, detailed planning is required. Plan is set in motion on the basis of number of hours ⏳ to travel. Binge watching, listening to music, reading a book 📙 or writing the blog. If the Journey is long, say for 2 days all of the above activities can be accommodated. I was traveling from my native to Bangalore. Since the Journey was familiar. I had planned on binge wat

TRAIN A FREEDOM SYMBOL

Parents are usually very protective about their child, especially those parents who believe in ‘Hum Do Hamare Doh'. I was one such child. My parents nurtured me in very protective environment. I can compare my life with that of Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha). Just like Siddhartha's father, my father nurtured me in captive environment. Within the Comforts (limits) of our little palace (home). I don’t remember going out alone, not without my parents. They were too busy with work and therefore, rarely there was any family outing.  A strong desire started emerging within me to travel and to explore the world. I was like the frog in a small pond. Unaware of seas & the bigger Oceans. Too afraid to explore and to fragile to be free. My father loosened my leash bit by bit. Finally, their came a time, when I was supposed to go out of pond (village) and move to sea (city).   My first travel alone was in train. Ever since train appears to me as a symbol of freedom. My dream was