hmm 16th jan. my first post for the new year.
my very first day in 2011 didnt start that well
i was given a group assignment where we had to spend 30 hours in an orphanage or ngo.
on my way there... my jeans tore from a very embarrassing place.. my good luck i had a jacket to wrap around my waist.
i went there and i told sister that my jeans tore so she asked neha ( an underprivileged girl with an amputated leg) to give me something to wear. she had a purple floral over sized salwar kameez which would hopefully fit me and which it eventually did. it was half eaten by rats but thats what people donated. i reached home in the very same salwar kameez. i was supposed to go to meet my relatives with my mom but couldn't because i reachedhome late which was apparently 3 o clock in the afternoon and it takes 2 hours to reach their place. so i planned to go ahead with my sisters who were already out early morning because all of them had gone to rajmachi and malshej ghat and they clicked a lot of pictures( i am jealous).
they had planned to crash at a friends place in vasai. i reached vasai where we were supposed to reunite :P.i carried all my stuff which i would require for the next day as i had to visit it again and they were still on their way to vasai and were an hour away. they told me to wait at a gurudwara which was nearby the station. i dont clearly remember the name but it was above yes bank. now i couldn't wait outside a gurudwara in an unknown area at 9 o clock in the night now could i? i wanted to enter but i did not have a scarf or a dupatta to cover my head. after 15 minutes i realized that the salwar kameez i had worn in the morning was still there with me. i took out the purple dupatta covered my head and off i went. i sat in the darbar. not a single soul over there. i was all alone in the wide darbar and it was PEACEFUL! i went to self retrospection for another half an hour. i analysed my last year and what i had done wrong and what should i plan to do this year. the feeling was magnetic... i was in a trance... i felt a spiritual vibration.. and later my phones vibration..
they were waiting for me outside. we drove off but the gurudwara is still fresh in my mind. later that night we partied!. we danced, we ate, we had hukka and we drank! and i dozed off! all o them were partying till late but i couldnt help myself from dozing off. i got up early in the morning as i had to reach the ashram. took a fast train from vasai reached home.. took a shower and rushed to the ashram. and we started our day as usual.
i look back to that day and i know it was quite an adventurous day.. not a perfect start though.... but that experience made me value my life even more. made me crib a little less :P there are so many minor details about life that we overlook but they are the source of our true happiness....
i felt complete and true and pure that day! nothing better to kick start my new year!
i dont know who said this but he/she did! "happiness lies in the details!"
well although belated but happy new year!
next post will be about my birthday which was on 8th jan :P
