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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...

JOY OF DONATING

Humans can help each other in a way other animals can’t, that’s what makes us human.Yet, humans are most ungrateful and unsatisfied creatures. Humans are by nature greedy. It’s this greed that harms us the most.   Have you ever wondered why are we not satisfied with what we have? Lean ones are unhappy, fat ones are unhappy, pretty ones are unhappy, handsome ones are also unhappy. That makes it a lot many unhappy individuals. They are unhappy mainly because they compare themselves with others. The moment they stop comparing, will be their happiest moment.            That’s not it, even if you stop comparing, people around you will not stop. Hey, look at that fatty over there! How does he even walk with such huge body or OMG! Look at that fellow! He will definitely be blown away with wind. I belong to the latter category. Have you ever experienced any such comments?  I’ve got many such comments. To tackle such situation...

SMILE IN SUPERMARKET

Peace of mind is very important for every individual. Don’t worry I’m not gonna talk of peace of mind that Sadhu’s and Rishi’s try to achieve by fasting and meditation. I was only talking of maintaining tranquility. How to you make peace with yourself? Frankly speaking, I don’t know of it yet. However, I do know how to keep peace of mind for short period. What’s the secret recipe for peace and tranquility? Here is a little secret! There is no universally accepted recipe. It varies as every person is unique and their interest varies too. What’s best for you? Only you can decide that. Always find time for the things that make you happy  Here is what most people do: A. Travel – Seeing places calms you mind. Remember, job will fill your pocket and adventure will fill your soul  B. Eating Outside – Food is best way to calm your mind. Food tastes better when you eat with ones you love. So spent some time with family. Go out for a picnic. C. Talk or Listen ...

SMILE IN TRAIN 2.0 (An astonishing filmy journey)

India is famous for three things all over the world. It’s Spicy cuisine, Cultural and ethnic diversity, and Bollywood. Bollywood is in our DNA by default. Every person in India is influenced by cinema one or the other way. Javed Aktar once said, “At some stage in life every Indian must have dreamt of working in Cinema”. I absolutely agree with this. Do you? We love  ❤️  our Cinema. Be it Romcom movies of the North or action packed movies of the South. Soulful music of the East or exquisite dance of the West. We just love cinema because they sell to us our dreams and fantasy’s.             Bollywood and Trains have this intimate connection. I was travelling from South India all the way to north India in train. As I boarded Sampark Kranti Express, which is as fast as Rajdani Express. All sorts of memories of Bollywood movies in connection to train start flashing in my mind in a loop.  It all began w...

SMILE IN TRAIN

There comes a time in life where you’ve worked or studied for a very long time and all you need is tiny little break or a vacation. You certainly can’t go alone. Can you? Therefore, you make plans. Plant a seed of vacation in your friends head. That friend will share it to his friends and the news spreads like wildfire. In no time, there will be a dozen of friends, who are ready to come. In addition, another dozen who are interested, nevertheless not able to decide. Then goes lots of convincing.  Next stage is to plan trip and book hotels this is the most crucial stage. First place to make the list will be Goa, then, comes suggestion for other places. Here many will disagree, argue and quit. Slowly the plan dies. Now you start feeling sad. This vacation wasted as well like the ones before it. Suddenly, you get a call on the other end your friend say “Let’s Go” doesn’t matter to me who’s coming or not coming, as long as your there. Then, few others follow. Just like that,...

A SMILE @ MALL

I'm known for being late, as much as I hate being late, I'm never on time, especially when it’s about meeting my best friend. I don't like to make people wait. Therefore, I always try being there half an hour ahead. Most of the time I'm on time or before the scheduled time. I don't how? Yet, for some reason, I'll be late most of the time when I have to meet my bestie. She wanted to go shopping for trip she was planning from long time. She invited me to help her decide. It's always good to have second opinion by your side while you shop. Preferably from someone of opposite gender. Like always, I tried being on time. Surprisingly she was late this time. Instead of her waiting for me, I was waiting for her, strange as it feels. I was finally on time, hurray...! I decided to wait for her inside mall where she wanted to shop. As I entered mall, I saw lots of temporary shops setup right in the middle of mall. Looked like some eatery, as I came close I got to kno...

A SMILE IN METRO

Who doesn't love weekends! Everyone just waits for weekends. For some weekends are the time to have fun and for some, its time to relax. Have you ever thought, what makes weekends so special? Holiday! Free time ! Its WEEKDAYS. Think about it. If there were no weekdays, where you work or study on hectic schedule. Would your weekends be still as enjoyable and as relaxing? May be. But I can assure you, weekdays and weekends go hand in hand. Weekends wouldn't be enjoyable without weekdays and Weekdays would be miserable without weekends. So from next time stop complaining about weekdays and learn to enjoy it. My weekend had just started, I wanted it to be as relaxing as possible. But unfortunately I had work to do. Working on weekends is such a  Drag! That is when I got a call from friend asking for a reconvene. I was in Dilemma between work and meeting friend. What would you  do in such situation? I decided to meet friend and postpone the work, I'm sure many o...