vacation

The life you live will be enrich with every journey you made.

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in. One success is inherited, and the the next one is earned. While the last one is self-sought, self-served, and happens on its own terms.

You must dare to make new voyages.

Every travel is a blessed adventure.

To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do so much that the idea of a long vacation looks boring - that's living.

He plunged into the foliage, and was swept into a humid, wet world of towering trees, animal chirps and thick ferns. After a few steps, he turned, and could barely make out the village. He walked a few more steps. He could see nothing now except for the thick trees and long ferns and grasses that surrounded him. He was enveloped into the confined space between trees, surrounded by the jungle heat and staccato chirps. He turned in the direction of the village, but could only see thick, dense trees. Hoping his sense of direction had not been muddled, he turned back around to the direction of the alleged ocean, and kept walking.Now the calls he heard sounded more and more strange. How far had he walked by now? The jungle, or rain forest, whatever it was, did not relent, and he kept on weaving into narrow gaps between the sturdy ferns and towering trees, pressing onwards. This continued for a seemingly oppressive amount of time, and he began to doubt his decision. To come to this place. To take a chance with his life, which was going in the right direction. Why couldn__ he be happy with the normal and mundane, he cursed, scolding his own stubbornness

His cell-phone rang. Dominic fumbled for it on the nightstand next to the couch, the dim lights not helping his endeavour. He had piercing, generic, banal fluorescent lights on his face all the time at work and at University, it was so bad it made him loathe even natural sunlight. Lucky this apartment__ living room light had a dimmer. He flipped open his phone and said hello. __ey Dom, how you doin_?_ a voice boomed. It was Ben. They proceeded to talk about the upcoming exams, which were deceptively close as it was week 10 at the moment. Yes, they would be alright. Yes, they would meet up afterwards. No, he hadn__ studied more than Ben had. As he clapped the phone closed after the genial conversation reached its natural nadir, he had forgotten most of what had been said

Every travel is blessed adventure.

Every voyage is a new glorious experience.

Relax and renew your mind.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

I blinked and the images were gone. But I remembered how the laugh and the howl and the splash would ripple and echo in the stillness of our lake, and I wondered if ripples and echoes like those ever fully die away, if somewhere in the woods my father's joyful yelps still bounced quietly off the trees. Silly thought, but there you go.

In every voyage, be fully present.

We fail to enjoy the sacred moment, when we overwork.

It all started with one of those days--one of those muggy, first-of-the-summer-vacation days when everyone older and everyone younger knew what to do, but everyone in between was lost.

If Indian weddings for Indian people are the furthest from __un,_ trips to India for Indian people are the furthest from __acation._ When I told my friends about the upcoming trip, everyone purred about what a great time I__ have, told me to take a lot of photos, told me to eat everything. But if you__e going to India to see your family, you__e not going to relax, you__e not going to have a nice time. No, you__e going so you can touch the very last of your bloodline, to say hello to the new ones and goodbye to the older ones, since who knows when you__l visit again. You are working.

Go forward and explore many great lands.