Winds of Change

Call me fanciful, but when big changes come about in life, you can actually feel it. Everything that's part of the surroundings and 'there' suddenly seems unfamiliar and everything seems like you're looking at it and feeling it differently.

For a Taurean who's vehemently opposed to change, I seem to turn my world upside down too damn often. Don't for a minute imagine I like it. I don't. I hate it. But its usually for practical reasons like my job. Or AD's job. Better opportunities, better lifestyle. When I was little, it was my father's job. The reasons are so many and so varied, but the result is always the same. Build, break down, uproot, build....and so the pattern follows. Its made me the person I am so I honestly cannot complain that its adversely affected my life. But in moments of whimsy, I often wish for a life where I was born in one set of walls, grew up in those same walls and had strong ties to one particular place for the rest of my life. I always wished for a home where I could walk in, point to a corner and tell the husband "when i was 6, that's the place where I....". Or the even more dramatic, "This is the home my husband and I made from the day we got married." But I've sworn to count my blessings and appreciate what I have and not stress about the handful of things that are not in my control. I've also sworn to reawaken my sense of adventure, sense of wonder at new experiences and appreciation that I've been forced to live a hugely full life where my natural instinct would have restricted me to being happy as an ant who believes its ant hill is the sum total of the world.

So, what do I have to look forward to -

1. Getting out of Bombay. BIG plus that. I wont say I'll never come back here again because the last time I said that I was back here in less than a year and a half.

2. Winters in Delhi. It makes my soul happy just thinking about it

3. Exploring Old Delhi. I've always wanted to do this especially since it reminds me of Old City in Hyderabad

4. Being back with our friends. AD and I cant wait to go back and reconnect with our friends. Phones and chat are one thing. Its another thing to just kick back and be in their presence.

5. Weekend trips outside the city. Please don't try to tell me that Bombay has Karjat, Lonavla, Matheran, Alibaug etc etc etc. They don't even compare. Its a myth that Bombay people keep reinforcing to make themselves feel better about their pitiful options!

6. Butter chicken. 'Nuff said

7. Delhi is the city of my heart. This South Indian who's lived all over the country has found the one city in this whole country that I can see myself grow old. That's major.

So...Delhi...we're baaaaaccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!