Alive..

Disclaimer: Long Blog post coming up.. :-)

When do we feel alive? Isn’t our life one of routine.. Wake up.. Brush.. Eat.. Go to work/school.. Come back.. Browse/tv/play.. spend some time with loved ones..eat..sleep. And repeat till we take a vacation and shake this up a bit.

There are some people who I’ve been with from time to time who always made me feel ‘alive’. And its only now that I understand what this word means to me.. Monday night, we watched 3 idiots – a great Hindi movie after a sumptuous dinner. Mom and I were up late(as usual) chatting when we felt we should probably take a drive. It was the 5th – Birthday of a close friend of mine in Bangalore. We decided to go! 330kms.. Found a few blogs on road trip guides, took all our insurance papers, fruits and we were all set at 330AM in the morning!

We had a lovely drive, surprised her, had a wonderful day, rested well, ate well and drove back. All in all..a great weekend that made me feel ‘alive’.

That’s when I understood the meaning of ‘alive’. To me, it meant leaving the rational thinking left brain and exercising the creative right… Doing the unpredictable..just once a while.

And guess what? A few people were left unimpressed by this ‘madness’. Reminded me of the quote.. When you do what people don’t expect you to do, they generally get upset..

Oh, and yes, I feel alive and am all set to go back to the routine. There’s immense joy in a structured life as well after all! :-)