I don’t know if it’s the same thing, but till a couple of years ago- Iceland for me it was meeting Farhan Akhtar, and when I got close to meeting him I did not. Because then it would break the idea of Farhan I had in my head. Are we talking of the same things?
I'm really really amazed to read this today. Like what are the chances?! How can two entirely different people be obsessed with a completely random common thing!
The beginning of my story is obviously different but it narrows down to just the same end. I've been extremely desirous of going to Iceland for a veryy long time but haven't done a thing for it. Just waiting. And also saving up for the day i suddenly decide to go. I always wanted to go there w my boyfriend who i recently had a break up with. While breaking up i just said " Iceland chalna mere sath pls, it is the one thing I look forward to" to which the reply was "How do you manage to do this?" Haha!
Anyway, I'm really happy to have found this post today!
I want to breathe my last breath under the northern lights......
I want to write yet I don't want to.
I am someone who has so many crazy things going inside but when it's time to express... I'm like eh! Leave it, who cares.. but today I will.
I was 5 when I came to know that there's another world under my feet, my grandfather said if we could dig a hole straight from where I'm standing, we would reach the other part of the earth. I was fascinated, I asked him more. He told me about the stars, the planets and every time my cousins would visit me in sardiyo ki chuttiya they'd talk about the constellations and other celestial bodies (I would get angry because just like you, I could never find any of the constellations)... With time the outer space started becoming my dream world.
Once my grandfather got me a story book, it was of a boy who went to outer space on a rocket (ghodi jaise chadte hai waise hi rocket mein Chadh k wo mars k samne gaya) I promised to myself that one day I'll be like him....
When I grew older, reality hit me like a bullet train (maybe harder than that) i remember crying for days when I came to know outer space shit is expensive af... I wanted my dead body to float in the freezing darkness (but mujhe waha lejayega kaun)
I was in 6th standard I guess when I came to know about aurora borealis ..... I still remember jumping with joy after knowing that I can see it from Scandinavia
I made a silent promise to myself that day that one day I will go there.
When I was in 11th people from Norway came to our school.. it was some program related to education system in india.
They gave a nice talk....
Our principal asked us to ask questions to the panel (if we had any) only 2 of us (out of around 1000 students asked)
My question was "How's the education system in Norway? how different do you find Indian education system? What do you think we can do to make our system better?" They gave me a box of Belgian chocolates... I remember researching about Norway that day.
"Norway is one of the best places to experience the Northern Lights" the Google article read...
And that day I decided... Norway it is.
I have a small sticky notes pasted on my study table which reads "Sikkim to Norway. Northern lights are waiting for you"
In your case, you can plan a trip if you want... I'm too broke.
My dream is expensive lol.
But even when I will be financially independent and will have enough money to plan a trip to anywhere in the world... I'd go anywhere but Scandinavia. I'll lose the main purpose of living.
I don't want it to be an easy goal.
That's why, I want to breathe my last breath under the aurora borealis........
Ik no body will read this long reply but felt like writing it.
(Ps. Ignore all the grammatical mistakes cause hum angrez thodi na hai.. lol)
It is The universal studio for me. I Know it's a silly childish dream but Me and my mother are mad Harry Potter fans. when I was 11 or 12 years old I was telling my mother that,"Maa I want to go to Universal studios" and like a typical middle class mother she replied we need shit load of money for that. I didn't said anything, after that I made a promise to myself that one day I will take my mother to universal studios. How egoistic of me to think that I will take her because she couldn't go herself. I think it was just an escape. The kind of escape that we don't know from which thing or thought we are escaping. And because of that we see such dreams(atleast in my case) and when that moment will come when I will actually be able to go there with my mother I don't know why but I am really scared of that moment. I think because there will be no escape then.
"They were trying to change the culture of hiking in Himachal and Uttarakhand. "
What were they trying to change about it?
"If school teachers in India were smart, then they would not have been school teachers in India... They should be respected but they aren’t and yet they keep doing their jobs. A strange breed really."
So many people don't respect teachers and I am one of them I don't disrespect them as an individual I disrespect the Idea of teaching special here. I know it's important for the chain of society but the schools are not teaching anything that will help create a prominent individual in society. And the teachers know that very well still they are doing their job as a corporate majdoor would and I don't respect that and I completely agree with him.
I don’t know if it’s the same thing, but till a couple of years ago- Iceland for me it was meeting Farhan Akhtar, and when I got close to meeting him I did not. Because then it would break the idea of Farhan I had in my head. Are we talking of the same things?
Your writings calm my anxious soul thank you for writing.please continue doing this
I'm really really amazed to read this today. Like what are the chances?! How can two entirely different people be obsessed with a completely random common thing!
The beginning of my story is obviously different but it narrows down to just the same end. I've been extremely desirous of going to Iceland for a veryy long time but haven't done a thing for it. Just waiting. And also saving up for the day i suddenly decide to go. I always wanted to go there w my boyfriend who i recently had a break up with. While breaking up i just said " Iceland chalna mere sath pls, it is the one thing I look forward to" to which the reply was "How do you manage to do this?" Haha!
Anyway, I'm really happy to have found this post today!
Ser, this is beautiful :)
Aap awesome ho!
I want to breathe my last breath under the northern lights......
I want to write yet I don't want to.
I am someone who has so many crazy things going inside but when it's time to express... I'm like eh! Leave it, who cares.. but today I will.
I was 5 when I came to know that there's another world under my feet, my grandfather said if we could dig a hole straight from where I'm standing, we would reach the other part of the earth. I was fascinated, I asked him more. He told me about the stars, the planets and every time my cousins would visit me in sardiyo ki chuttiya they'd talk about the constellations and other celestial bodies (I would get angry because just like you, I could never find any of the constellations)... With time the outer space started becoming my dream world.
Once my grandfather got me a story book, it was of a boy who went to outer space on a rocket (ghodi jaise chadte hai waise hi rocket mein Chadh k wo mars k samne gaya) I promised to myself that one day I'll be like him....
When I grew older, reality hit me like a bullet train (maybe harder than that) i remember crying for days when I came to know outer space shit is expensive af... I wanted my dead body to float in the freezing darkness (but mujhe waha lejayega kaun)
I was in 6th standard I guess when I came to know about aurora borealis ..... I still remember jumping with joy after knowing that I can see it from Scandinavia
I made a silent promise to myself that day that one day I will go there.
When I was in 11th people from Norway came to our school.. it was some program related to education system in india.
They gave a nice talk....
Our principal asked us to ask questions to the panel (if we had any) only 2 of us (out of around 1000 students asked)
My question was "How's the education system in Norway? how different do you find Indian education system? What do you think we can do to make our system better?" They gave me a box of Belgian chocolates... I remember researching about Norway that day.
"Norway is one of the best places to experience the Northern Lights" the Google article read...
And that day I decided... Norway it is.
I have a small sticky notes pasted on my study table which reads "Sikkim to Norway. Northern lights are waiting for you"
In your case, you can plan a trip if you want... I'm too broke.
My dream is expensive lol.
But even when I will be financially independent and will have enough money to plan a trip to anywhere in the world... I'd go anywhere but Scandinavia. I'll lose the main purpose of living.
I don't want it to be an easy goal.
That's why, I want to breathe my last breath under the aurora borealis........
Ik no body will read this long reply but felt like writing it.
(Ps. Ignore all the grammatical mistakes cause hum angrez thodi na hai.. lol)
It is The universal studio for me. I Know it's a silly childish dream but Me and my mother are mad Harry Potter fans. when I was 11 or 12 years old I was telling my mother that,"Maa I want to go to Universal studios" and like a typical middle class mother she replied we need shit load of money for that. I didn't said anything, after that I made a promise to myself that one day I will take my mother to universal studios. How egoistic of me to think that I will take her because she couldn't go herself. I think it was just an escape. The kind of escape that we don't know from which thing or thought we are escaping. And because of that we see such dreams(atleast in my case) and when that moment will come when I will actually be able to go there with my mother I don't know why but I am really scared of that moment. I think because there will be no escape then.
Beautiful piece of writing
"They were trying to change the culture of hiking in Himachal and Uttarakhand. "
What were they trying to change about it?
"If school teachers in India were smart, then they would not have been school teachers in India... They should be respected but they aren’t and yet they keep doing their jobs. A strange breed really."
Who does not respect them and why?
So many people don't respect teachers and I am one of them I don't disrespect them as an individual I disrespect the Idea of teaching special here. I know it's important for the chain of society but the schools are not teaching anything that will help create a prominent individual in society. And the teachers know that very well still they are doing their job as a corporate majdoor would and I don't respect that and I completely agree with him.
what does that disrespect look like in the classroom? does it mean kids tell their teachers to f off or somethihng?
No they don't and they can't also. As far as I talk about myself I don't disrespect them I just can't wrapy head around the Idea of teaching.
What do you mean they "can't"? What happens if they do?
I am guessing you are not from India
I could feel that they were looking at me with concern. At this point I must have cracked a joke or something to release the tension.
Been there done that, brother.
Wow..