Sun Kissed...

Horoscopes or rather horrorscopes ( as I call them) do tell interesting stuff at times. I don't blindly believe what these have to offer but I always enjoy a well written horoscope. Time and again, I have seen that some of the predictions do come true while many don't.

For past few weeks, travel was featuring a lot in my horoscope and that too with a recomendation to travel to a destination with a water body. I kept wondering how is that going to happen since my gang wasn't planning a vacation nor was any official trip lined up.

And then suddenly out of no where came this opportunity around 3 days back. A dear one had to visit Haridwar to pick up some stuff for an impending prayer session at his home and he was looking for partners in crime. The moment I got to know, I said "I'm in" and thus began the one day long memorable trip to Haridwar.

The drive that started at 0430 hours in the wee hours of Saturday and culminated around 2200 hours same day was memorable, refreshing, cleansing and it did put my flailing heart at ease. The drive through the sceninc beauty peeping from the blanket of fog took away all the sleep that was lurking in my eyes as I had not slept in the last 24 hours.

Haridwar greeted us in its full fervour. We were surprised to see scores of people from all parts of the world thronging to Har Ki Pauri and there was barely any space to walk. Someone told us that Maha Shivratri had brought them all together.

We found it impossible to get the ingredients and thus we decided to drive up further and there standing majestically, Rishikesh welcomed us. After the streneous 3 hours that we sent procuring what we had been looking for, it was time to unwind and let loose.

We searched for a ghat which wasn't overflowing with people and sat down to soak our aching feet.While my buddy went ahead and got busy with his staple dip, I had different plans.

I choose a beautiful rock in the middle of the river to sit upon, perched upon it, dipped my aching limbs, put on my shades and let my hair loose.

As the sunny rays and the warm wind untangled my thoughts and my brown strands, I felt myself relaxing. I closed my eyes and let life flash through in front of my eyes. I let the thoughts wander, without holding them back or questioning them for cropping up.

As I stood up many minutes later and started walking near the shoreline, I felt the sunrays reaching out to me. I looked up at the glowing sun and opened my arms to soak in all the light and energy.

I got sun kissed....

It was one hell of a hectic day but had many beautiful moments. Be it the drive through the bed of the fog... or the car traversing through green wilds... or the colors that greeted us at our destination... or the scores of bodies that surprised us... or the swarm of beautiful butterflies that danced around us... or the monkeys that rushed towards us when we offered food...or the walk down the stairs leading to the ghats and last but definitely not the least...the tryst with the sun.

My favourite moment?

Undoubtedly...when I got sun kissed.

Will definitely go there back soon to enjoy the reverie yet again...