Saturday, May 23, 2009

Travel does not bring me exuberant happiness, I don’t find myself smiling when I am alone on a road away from home. It is perhaps a bit like Forrest Gump, who only knew that he had to run, not the why. I went on the trips I did because I wanted to go away from where I was desperately. In Darjeeling, I did not think. I think one can accept that one will not be exuberantly happy to travel, but that one will need to go away again and again, to be on the move. Perhaps it is peace for an unquiet mind in this. And reconfirming faith in oneself, in one’s ability to stand up for one’s happiness, to push one’s limits a bit for it.
I wish it is always like this. I wish to travel more and more, for longer periods each time.
When you return home, you think you are such a different person, you will certainly handle the world differently. But everything remains the same, agonizingly. You don’t find more strength to deal with your hell, you want to go away from it even more desperately.
About Darjeeling, there isn’t much to write, great food, very crowded.. I was very quiet, I hardly spoke and the slight cold makes talking something from an even rarer realm. The quiet is a very even state of the mind. I want to go away again and again.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

accha bujhlam, tumi holey flaneur. tai karur shathe kotha bolo na.

ar escapist o, tai you undertake journeys to realise that the destination is not your aim, but the journey is.

olidhar said...

oi dekh bechara dibbo janena toke panjakola kore jakhon kauke ghurte hoy takhon kemon picnic hoy tar. and shuttup already. i so suddenly and so insanely miss the trip we were to have taken, 4. bhaab, it will soon be ten years that have spent planning it.

olidhar said...

that WE have spent planning it

At a loss for a blogger handle said...

enh, why escapist? ami toh jetei chai, notun jinish dekhte chai, and i do enjoy it, but it seems on a cerebral level, not a feel it in my fingers, feel it in my toes way.
also, enjoy it more in retrospect.

@ OLI
besh korechhish ghurechhish. amar tor shathe thakte khub bhalo lagey. and ouais ouais, oi mythical trip niye amra onek kichhu bolte pari.