Monday 20 July 2009

Life as a migrating bird

The moment I write the title of this blog I know I am suggesting more than I intend. No, I am just a petty housewife tied to my husband and roaming from one country to another at the will of his employer.I have no career of my own.And I deliberately chose this life...though when I chose it I didnt guess much.

I have always been fond of travelling.Cant stay at one place for two years at a stretch.When I had to,I felt the air turn heavy,and my wings dying to stretch....Perhaps I inherited this from my father.He is a man who travelled through North India with only 15 rupees in his pocket.But I'll tell that story another day.

As a child I have travelled through many parts of India with him.

When I married my boyfriend in 2002(after six years of struggle together),I have never ever thought of travelling outside India.It was a hard earned marriage and the ultimate achievement at that point of time for us.I had no desire left for anything else, not even for travel.

And there I was in 2003,sitting on a terrace overlooking Alpes across Lac Leman(Lake Geneva) in my apartment in Swiss riviera,hoping that this dream stays a little longer.

And from then I have been travelling through and living in many countries,mostly European nations....

And after all these years, today a thought occured to me:"Why dont I write down something of this strange life of mine?"