For the trip of a lifetime

This is something that I penned down around the late summer of 2005. It was born out of a feeling of escapism as it becomes clear.. but somehow I think it was also a resurfacing of a strong hidden desire which is a direct offspring of a different side of my personality, a more carefree, wild and adventurous one. The me who is unafraid of changes, effortlessly melds into new surroundings, abandons inhibitions for the sake of thrilling and astounding new discoveries and goes on journeys of self discovery, both within and without. She doesn't have a name and in that nameless-ness she can be anyone!

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I'm suddenly feeling the strain of regular life. I have everything I could want or need yet somehow, somewhere... an unrealized dream lurks within me.

I want to go away to someplace far away, someplace exotic, where people do not know me, live under a more mellow sunshine... Its a dream... a simple life. To wash away the grime of a mundane existence.

the door to new possibilities

A forbidden romance maybe. I want to have a new name, a new existence.

Marseilles would be nice or perhaps Florence or maybe Cuba. I need to belong to someplace else for sometime; to somebody else... have a new past. Live a forbidden life... walk with someone else... wear something new and different... dance to an unknown unheard music. Live with someone else. Taste different food.

I want to indulge in every indigenous pleasure that life has to offer.

Is it possible to borrow a stranger's life for a week? Walk on a different soil, barefoot... eat wild berries... be true to life and its possibilities. Be a different person. I want to live the unknown passions. I have to travel... I will someday. And it will be a new life... strange, mystic and full of surprises.

It will be an Adventure! and I will go!!