A happy window

This blog is about incidentally getting introduced to things that you never thought you would do. Here's a story. I wouldn't say I'm an artistic person, not at all, but I do believe that each one of us, has a bit of creativity that we all have the potential to express. And then all of a sudden, here I was; I started clicking pictures. As a heads up, I'm not even a good photographer. But I do enjoy the experience of clicking photos. I started noticing patterns I'd never noticed before.  I did not realize how important clicking a moment had become to me. So much so, that when I was in Chicago the other day, felt like-20 degrees celcius and I could see a frame, a beautiful pattern of buildings before me, and I had to capture it. In madness, I took my gloves off, and in freezing weather, with numb fingertips, I clicked away. I had to share the experience I had just seen, symmetry, asymmetry, perfection, flaws, everything. And weirdly, I had ZERO passion for seei

In the past few weeks, I've experienced unsettling newness. New people. New house. New country. New culture. New friends. I guess, we as humans are wired to believe that any newness makes you feel unsettled and slightly all over the place. We think that stepping out of our comfort zone is going to land us in an uncomfortable situation. We think 'building a life' takes time. I believe that the human mind tricks us into thinking these things.  Somehow when I got to Chicago, I didn't feel unsettled. Didn't feel alone. Only felt excitement.  Sometimes, the idea of 'adapting' to a new place and new situations is actually easier than it seems. Yes, I said easier. You might disagree. Say that to yourself again. Its only the fear in your mind that makes it seem harder.  What I'm trying to say is, newness doesn't take time to become old. Newness doesn't take time to become old. Newness doesn't take time to become old. Newness can

Travelling sets you free. In an odd way, you escape your world to venture into another. You try to see how life is lived in other spheres, of how people like you and unlike you, live differently. Sometimes, travelling also is a way of finding silence. Some quiet from all the chaos that refuses to leave your mind. It makes you introspect, as you suddenly see the world from an 'outsider' perspective, rather than living it everyday. I was lucky enough to experience and thoroughly feel the waves of these emotions in me while traveling through God's Own Country: Kerala, India. This blog is my attempt to take you through every inch of emotion I felt through my trip in Kerala :) I landed in Cochin. All I saw was a calming sea of green while landing. The window of my Spicejet aeroplane was filled with dancing little droplets of rain. Was I really in God's Own Country? Cochin airport From hereon, started my journey to Chithirapuram, a small town jus

Have you ever looked at a goodbye like an experience that gives you a strange unknown feeling of freedom under your feet? That time, when all you know is what you're going to do the next second and nothing after that. I thought, when a cloud of extreme freedom hit my soul, I would be directionless, panic stricken, hassled and troubled, because I would be out of my comfort zone. I haven't really rested or taken a significant break. But I surprised myself. When the morning of my goodbye arrived, I felt nothing. Not that I want to sound like a cold heartless soul, but I didn't. Why? Because I didn't have an ounce of doubt, that the people I was saying goodbye to will always stay with me: in the form of ideals that they have given to me. They never really go away. They never do. So what's there to feel sad about? Choose to understand that the situations around you will keep changing, whether you like it or not. All you can do, is swirl around those situa