The Pensive

An yet another dining table conversation... Me in all my brooding avatar after discussing some events... Me : "Zaara don't be so attached to teachers or fella classmates. Years change and your sections also change. You must go with the flow!" Z : "But why should I not get attached. At times I may find a favorite person in the process, with whom I would love to talk more..." Me little surprised: "Ya, you will find such, but is there any recent favorite person!" Z: "Ya , my grade 3 teacher . I meet her in every snacks period!" Me : Really?! Z: Ya , I still meet her. We talk. One day she asked me , how's your grade 4 Zaara. I said , "Mam!Busy, suffocating mammm!" Me: wow, then?!😅 Z: She laughed and said, tell me about it Zaara and we chatted away. Me: So you guys talk like friends now then!? Z: Ya. She is not my class teacher, so we talk more now. Me: So you feel good then!? Z: Not just good maa! It feels fresh, a new feeling....l...

Off we go - I thought finally and was super excited even for our super short trip to Kerala ( Gods Own country it is called in India due to its divine locations, general calmness and the beauty). Due to some repeated health issues and other obstacles our different kinds of trips planned to Thailand, then to Bali etc did not get implemented. Cancelling all the foreign trip plans - we rounded on somewhere near - udupi ( TamilNadu) or Kerala in June - even they all got postponed or cancelled and so on... This summer threw me a curveball - some health issues turned chronic and demanded long treatment sessions. I ended up spending weeks indoors, barely touching my usual hobbies or even picking up the phone. Also I believe there is NONE to call to coz all are in their soup! I don't feel like calling friends when there is really no plan or nothing exciting happening. Just to mope, it doesn't feel right! Every one nowadays prefers to mope like a mop in a corner😜 Doing otherwise is a b...