This is about our being a part of this year’s republic day parade…an experience I’ll relish for a long time…what experience….well…read on….the title is not aligned with the theme though…like most bollywood movies
We reached with a little difficulty… …we din know head or tail on how to reach…no google maps....no gps… and if that wasn’t enuf our overconfident autodriver took us straight to president’s estate… :P
As soon as we entered our block on Raj path, everybody got busy with cleaning their respective chairs. The ceremony started on time with the arrival of the president at 9:57AM. Fortunately/unfortunately I was sitting beside Tyagi J who did exhibit why his dream company was/is/will be Lockheed Martin…we had discussions ranging from the 21 gun salute to which regiment’s band was better to which regiment had better uniforms to watching on TV vs being a part of this to discussing the state jhakis (I still feel THAT rowing looked natural :P) to the motorcycle stunts to fly past! We had good enuf info on anything n everything…not more than what we cud (or at least I cud) retain…at the end of it, I was…hungry…thirsty…felt chilly but was super duper delighted…
When I returned, I did not have the keys of our flat and my cell was in…I wanted to call up n shout out my experience…to let know there was no LeT attack…to reply some missed calls which might have been…to check mails…(not that anything important happens every single minute of my life)instead I thot…wasn’t the day beautiful more bcoz none of us had our idiot boxes n cells with us…we talked…discussed…enjoyed …as silly a thing as eating papad n getting lost…super experience which I was talking about earlier here!
Somehow when I see oldies around me…ranging from cynics to some who feel contented to those which crib to some who’ve excelled…to some who travel extensively for fun…to some who lead by example…to some who gossip…..to some who’re highly respected….I try portraying exactly what kind of life I wanna have which will culminate into some of these which I may admire…I don have an answer obviously…I plan long term only for interviews else looking even beyond a horizon of 6 months is out of my capability…but one thing I do crave for…to not let the ecstasy of these small things in life to wither away ever...to feel surprised over surprises…to feel happy over goodies & free gifts…to cherish unplanned happenings no matter how much they screw me…to click photos for social n/w sites only…to see new releases back-2-back…to sit on the beach side n be able to discover a new sound of the waves every single time! Hope that’s not too much to ask for!
