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One of the most beautiful messages, a message I have always believed in. Enjoy the journey. Because destination is just a pause point, before the next journey starts. But journey has beautiful moments, failures, life lessons so much that when you reach each destination you become a new person. Something goes from you, but something also comes to you.
No journey is small, no journey is unimportant. Even the daily journey from home to office can be interesting if you observe.
My craze with window seat is always associated with this need to enjoy the journey. When in train I love to see the change in landscape, the longest I have taken so far will be from Trivandrum to Calcutta. From the greenery of Kerala, through the windmills of TN, barren space of AP to the bustle of Westbengal, how the nature had changed its color. I enjoyed standing in the world's longest platform Kharagpur, sun rise of Darjeeling, to standing at India- China border at Natulla Pass, to enjoying the architecture and beauty of Konark, that journey is still fresh in my mind.
So has been lot of my other journeys. I love to travel whether it is Waynad in Kerala or Taj Mahal of Agra or Gate way of India Mumbai or to shopping in T-Nagar Chennai or Commercial street Banglore, to have tea in Thattukada in Kerala, matka chai from a chaiwallah in Mathura, Chat of Calcutta, Badam milk in Adayar Ananda Bhavan and Dosa of Saravana Bhavan. Travel teaches you lot.
From food, to culture, to language, to experience it opens your mind, it open your perception. I have never missed a single tour from school, college or office and have never missed a chance even for a simple walk from home to nearby park.
And journeys become more beautiful when you have your dear and near ones, especially with your husband. It is not just the travel to places, but it is also a journey of discovering each other. With each new incident new facet emerges, with each tiff new understanding emerges, you both grow as individuals learning, challenging each other and enjoying each other's company.
Yes your ability to enjoy the journey will decide your destination, because if you keep too much focus on destination you will lose the precious moments of the journey and you will be tired when you reach destination and you will not have it in you to take another journey. Dont do it.
And understand that love story is also a journey. A journey of discovery of 2 people and it becomes beautiful only when challenges come and the couple overcome it with their love and understanding.
My friends always used to tease me on this aspect. They used to tell " Mera Dil nahi hai" reason I will sleep in front of the so called super hit movies Ishq, Aashiqui, Dil etc.. I will mock. Where is the heroine getting black saree, are wood cutters the tribe made of run away couple. Then when my friends were crying watching Devdas, I really wanted to sleep. I was like " Kaisa aadmi hai, khud mar gaya, us bhi jeene nahi diya". Is drinking alchohol and dying solution to all problems.
Then comes Mills and Boons love story books. I have tried reading. But max I could do was 42 pages, I felt sleepy.
But was it really " Mera Dil nahi hai". No. I loved certain type of love stories mostly Tamil from Mounam Samatham, Melle Thurantha Katakku, Kadal Kottai, Thullatha manavum thullum, Jhillonu oru Kadal, Alaipayuthe, Roja, Vinnaithandi varuvaya. Hindi only 2 movies so far DDLJ and Jab we Met.
So what was common in these movies. They were not perfect. They depicted journeys. The conflict of people and instead of running away how love made them face the conflict and come out successful. The movies that showed the ultimate transforming power of love, its endurance and not the lust.
So are our mythology stories whether Ramayana, Whether Shiv-Parvati, Whether Mahabharata it all teaches us the power of love, its endurance, the journey in which true love is discovered and that's why they are still evergreen.
