Travel and Happiness

World is a book and those who do not travel READ ONLY ONE PAGE - Augustine of Hippo

What a Quote!!!! Yes, if we have not travelled, we truly have read only 1 page and for all you know it might just be a blank page before the actually writing begins in the book!!!!

What is the “plan” for weekend or how was your weekend is the most common question we cannot escape, on Friday evening or Monday morning. This is the very evidence that people want to do something different on the days off from their routine.

All the time I hear that question I so wish I could say I travelled. Yes, “Every time” I hear that question, I so wish I can say, yes, I travelled, travelled yet again this weekend.

People say Happiness is a state of mind… How true!! My mind find happiness literally in different states J

Though I love travelling, I haven’t travelled too much but I want to travel all the time. Given a chance I would love to travel throughout the year and make sure I have put a tick mark against every place in the globe. I love the below picture in specific because it find it so apt picture to my thoughts. By plane, by train, by boat à Actually it doesn’t matter as long as I can travel!!!!!

Why people like travelling is a question that makes me think quite a lot of time. I have also heard varied responses like to get a break, to know various cultures, to meet different people, to see new things, adventure, entertainment, refreshment, freedom, to taste cuisines, passion, to handle new challenges, for photography, to relieve oneself from stress and problems, to learn how different we are than few others in different region, to enjoy local specialties’, for leaning new experiences etc.

But, I ask myself the same question again, why do I like to travel? Both my mind and heart synchronize at the same time and echo the same words – simply because I love to build memories. Yes, I love travelling to build memories. I love to travel with my family, where, what and when doesn’t matter as long as I am travelling and am with my family. Few years down the line, when we sit back and think or look at the photos of our travel and vacation, it surely will bring a smile on all of our faces. Nothing gives more happiness than flipping through the good memories.

Happiness is when you have good memories built with your loved ones in different locations of the world there by saying, we belong to this world!

A world with no illness

It was a pleasant day in summer. It was summer, but the rain previous night had made it a very pleasant weather. My mind and heart was joyous because of the good weather.

To admire this weather to the fullest I picked my cup of tea and sat in my favorite place in the house to get the view of the nature and sipped the cup of tea slowly with newspaper in laid in front of me. 

Unfortunately, newspapers really don’t give you good news any more. They give you news which put your mood off. It mentioned of people dying of illness, fever, cholera etc.

My imagination went wide and I started imaging the world when every single person is healthy forever and he or she never gets sick. There is no concept in the world as not being well. Everyone is in the best of their health and there are no health issues to anyone starting from new born to the oldest person in the world.

What would happen if this imagination of mine comes true? To begin with, there will be no patients, which is a good part. There would be no pharmacist or chemist. There would be no laboratories inventing new medicines. There would be no rats killed anymore in these labs to test the medicines invented. There would be no lobby of medicines. Paracetamol which is worth only few paisa would be available for the original cost as against 10 INR which is the current price and would be sold as Paracetamol only instead of Crocin or with any other brand name. There would be no doctors and the existing doctors would fight & search for patients. If at all they find a patient, then there would be a mini world war amongst these doctors for the single patient who is sick and alive J… Ha, I am still loving this thought. All good and fine so far, but, imagine, what will happen to our planned sick leave J that will be gone too J

Sick leave brought me back to my real world out of my imaginary world and I winded up my imagination of healthier world thinking about when to apply planned sick leave next J