It was a late Saturday evening
and our last few sentences went like this:
“We are not really saying goodbye
are we?”
“Hmm I don’t feel like going
clubbing again today”
“So we are saying goodbye then..”
Quick embrace..
The 1000 steps journey to
Backstagee Inn from Hemingway was all that was needed to put things into
perspective.
I came for this holiday with very
little preparation. Hotels, activities and tourist spots we all planned at the
very end ..
I had very little time to digest
what this holiday was about to be..i knew very little about Phuket, about the
culture and even about travelling alone for the first time..all I knew during
the limited time I had to prepare for this trip was..i had to do this..to
travel by myself for the first time..
Unprepared and without
expectations, I set out for the holiday.
Many a times the idea of
travelling alone was presented to me directly and indirectly from friends and internet.
I always thought what’s with all the fuss and dramatization of having to travel
alone.. I mean a holiday is still a holiday alone or not.
Now, having had the first hand
experience of, the journey is somewhat different from what I have read about.
Personally it feels like silencing
the noise in an overly crowded room where each individual is trying to get
their opinions across.
One guy says you should do it
this way, it is the best for you and across the room, the other guy says screw
that, he knows nothing about what hes saying..you should do it like this…only
to find another person showing his ideas down your throat…
So what do you do? Who do you
listen to when you don’t know yourself what you want?
You should pause and hit the mute
button. Some peace and quiet to figure it all out..the choices are out there,
you just need some peace and quiet to decide.
To think, to breathe and to
decide. Sometimes we learn a lot more by observing without the excessive crowd
and noise.
I do admit that this trip has not
changed me to a Dalai Lama..but I also know that I am neither a Dalai Nothing..
I still haven’t got it all
figured out..but hey Greek was not built in 1 day also a Greek god was not made
in one day (Greek God, Lick Lick).
I am glad that I have already
laid the first stone.
During this trip there was no
pretence, no obligations and no expectations to satisfy anyone’s needs and
desires but mine.
The journey before the 1000 steps
started on the afternoon I landed in Phuket.
Bzztttt..bzzttt..just checked in
at Aquarius…barely reached my room on the third floor and my phone already
started to vibrate incessantly..
How exciting…i had a big broad
smile on my face. I must be irresistible to the Thais and tourists….just
imagine the moment I connected to the internet and the messages came pouring
in…
Well well, booking a hotel in
paradise complex was a right decision afterall..feeling excited and to an
extent, sexcited I put my phone on the tv…
It was one of those moments… when
you know what the vibration means tonnes of at Grindr and Jack’d the moment you
check into the hotel..
I was euphoric…had a little
hardon..but of course I would to not let it get to me.
I went like… yeah yeah I know im
busy now..will check later when I’m free..kinda playing hard to get..
3 minutes, my will power lasted…screw
unpacking and resting..i grabbed my phone in 1 quick motion… there were 326
messages on my phone…WOW!
But neither were from Grindr and
Jack’d…they were from Whatsapp… Damn you Whatsapp groups…!!! L
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