WEAVING MY PRESENT WITH MY PAST- The Cinderella Moment!

This is about the six months I spent in India last year. It was my home coming in a way as I was away for a good six years..! I don't know if it was lucky or unlucky; its quite hard to decide considering that a lot of things happened during those six months in India; but it was a soulful journey....

I was weaving my present with my past! There are not many adjectives to describe the experience but the closest choice would be -' resonant'!Long six years just spiralled into oblivion when I first set foot back there...it was just pure bliss! The sights, sounds and smells that were hidden away somewhere deep in my mind , all came back. I cast a glimpse out of the window as the wheels of the flight touched the ground and there was a buzz of adrenaline just sitting there...watching the lushness speeding past me as we were taxiing around the runaway!

I knew it...this was the moment I had long waited for, but just quite never happened the way I wanted ...but nevertheless having that moment a touch or step away from me was exhilarating!

You know its funny; when I was on my flight going to UK in 2000 one of the first things that sent up bubbles of excitement inside my head was how wonderful it would feel to return home after graduation, smelling of sweet success all over! Not just that, I even had this mental image of me landing in a pinstripe power suit and when I walked past peoples jaws dropped in awe!Ah, the teenage dream bubbles, they busted easy as it didn't take me long to figure out that success doesnt really have to be dressed in a power suit and isn't always awe inspiring! So ' Pop' went the bubbles!

But despite having realized all that, despite having all the little big things life threw my way; despite having problems that made me realize I may well not see my country for a long time yet, I kept dreaming and that still remained the moment I would give anything for, the moment when I will feel I have made my family proud, the moment my parents would whisper' thats my daughter!'; despite all , that remained my Cinderella moment!