Friends that travel together, stay together.

Friends that travel together stay together

I’ve read many a times that travel makes you awesome and the time to be awesome is NOW! After enjoying so many holidays and vacations in my life; either with my parents and siblings when I was young or with my family after I got married; be it with my children and husband or in-laws or with my co-sis’s or the one-nighters with my friends in the organizations….of which I have been a part of many, ……the list is simply endless! 

The twisting part in the holiday came when I went to Goa with all my girl friends and it would be needless to say……..that was the bestest holiday I ever had in my entire span of 47 years.

Goa was not a new destination for any of us, but the beautiful times we had, when we went out to that favored, panoramic, bustling city in November 2017, gave us a new high and we could see all our happy hormones getting activated and charged-up fully. My cousin’s splendid villa in North Goa, where we, a bunch of 8 fun-filled, like-minded girls stayed, enjoyed our 3 day trip which was full of funny incidents. Laughing out all the time, doing the things we have never done before helped create a special bond amongst us. Wearing what not, posing for pictures, getting our first photo-shoot done, starting the day by wine, going to all the happening places, seeing and drooling over the young, energetic crowd, eating home-made parathas and upma, going all the way in different directions to look for Toni’s wine and puchkas without potatoes, borrowing things from each other, doing agreeable yet stupid stuff beside the pool and talking sweet little nothings, late night outings made the trip very-very special. The casino trips were much awaited and getting an entry to one of the gambling dens absolutely free was like an icing added to our already delicious cake. Some of us, including yours truly, learnt the knack of black jack in this trip only.

Everybody was just pure themselves. No show-offs, no vague extravaganza! If one friend would say, “No, we’ll not do this today but do it tomorrow (owing to the fact that Wednesdays were ladies night outings major discount); the entire flock would obey to that so called command. 

It was a pure bliss, the memories of which still make us giggle with joy.

After Goa happened to us, many of my other friends, not really friends but I would say my acquaintances, used to ask me that how could I manage to make such a group of friends that look alike and more than that are so much like minded? “Are these your husbands’ friends’ wives?” to which I used to reply, “No the husbands are friends because we gel well”.

Finding a friend is a good fortune and keeping them intact is really a blessing and God blesses only His few Chosen Ones. Not everyone can be as lucky as we are! 

Touchwood! Somehow, when we meet each other, we think, “What! You too! I thought I was the only one out here!”

Our friendship ultimately makes us who we are. 

Whenever I meet them, I see a new energized self!

In short, in you, I find a second self!

Raising a toast to our friendship!