Vacation musings!

Having gone Trans-Atlantic alone and with just a week to lose my teen status... here are some random musings!

When you are sitting in a flight wide awake with some 10 hours to reach your destination, with not-so-interesting in-flight music and movies, mild nausea, an impending threat of missing your connecting flight, a snoring and boring person next to you and absolutely nothing to do... you know how lonely you can feel..

After this, when you step out of the flight and rush out to be greeted by your family... you know what relief is...

When you get hugged by your sibling whom you've missed fighting and conspiring with for the past 2 weeks (who'd never hug you under normal circumstances!) you'll know how it feels to smile and cry at the same time!

When you step into Disney World... you'll see yourself transforming into a kid... involuntarily maybe but certainly!

When you fall asleep in a van with your favorite music playing, after a great day in a park and three siblings already sleeping in your lap and shoulder... you'll get to experience the warmth of true content!

When you see the mechanical life of people in the US, you do thank your Gods for giving you the time to enjoy the small pleasures in life..

When you are in the Maid of the Mist boat in Niagara, in the middle of the Horseshoe Falls... You experience one of the amazing wonders of Nature to the fullest!

When you look out of the window in your plane and enjoy the eagle's view of the city/town... you do tend to feel that you are at the top of the world (figuratively and literally!)

Whenever a souvenir catches your eye, the person whom you want to give it to also flashes in your mind!

When you see how different and indifferent a kid you loved has grown, you feel cold even at 90 degrees Fahrenheit!

When you go in a convertible at night in Manhattan downtown.. you get a picture of what the future world might be!

When you travel in the upper open deck of the tourist bus, you get the 4-D experience of NY in you

To beat this, all you have to do is take a subway train!

You get sick of pizzas and fries after a week of eating nothing but them!

When you land in Chennai after just 3 weeks of being out of the country, you'll find that dirt and garbage strewn here and there will irritate you..

When you get back to your house, you'll get this sense-of-belonging... Yeah! I realized there is no place I'd feel this comfortable!