To start my story of the place wud mean goin way back in time.... our first visit was probably around wen i was a toddler myself... obviously i dnt remember much from it...
But we frequented the place so often... ( it being our fav weekend getaway...) it soon became so much etched in my mind tht.... it feels so much at home...every turn...every bend...every tiny little tea stalls on the way....the whole ride itself s the reward..! the fact tht it jus takes a coupla hours to transform ur environs from the usual busybody day... to this most serene wilderness!! the memory of my foursome family....the laughter... the silly fears.. the excitement to spot the wayside wildlife...(elephants r known to be awestrikin if u ask me) it was like the easy little trip to our own Fantasy land...
I truly believe tht my love... passion.. for Nature cropped up slowly n deeply from these expeditions takin deep roots in the young mind... its like a part of me...any memory of my childhood s related to these numerous trips... certainly happy times!!! its hard to wipe out the smile once i start dweLling in those times!!
But it so happened tht wen i was around 10 yrs old or so... my dad got transferred pretty outta the state...We then darent think we were ever gonna make it back... at least certainl;y not for anytime soon!!
Years went by.. n the place jus got pushed to the back alleys of our memory lane...!! we did wish from time to time..wat fun it d be to get back carefree to those days!! but left it jus remained a whim...
Soon time came by for me to enter col.....i took up the medical field...it was the marking for bigger things of course...but some things even bigger than expected were lying hidden in wait for me..... for all of us... mom was diagnosed with Ca breast... followed an year of surgeries n chemo n radiotherapy.... im not goin into any further details....coz thts not wat i wanna blog abt exactly in this page.... anyway she made it out wonderfully after it all....n then followed 4 yrs of pure bliss... n dad even got transferred back to our old place.... things wer gleamin golden in our horizon.... jus wen we were settlin back comfortably, God Revealed He already had different plans for us... That one day changed our lives without even a bit of warning.... n we tumbled thro 8 most horrific months of our lives....which finally culminated in Amma passing on...
In Kerala...among hindus, we have a custom after a person passes on.... his or her offspring must perform certain ritual "Bali" as we call it... for each month for the next 12 months at certain temples known for undertakin this ritual... it so happened tht our favorite place was one known for such proceedings...
Never in our dreams wud we ever have thot this wud be the reason Fate wud give us, to visit our ex-Wonderland....but it did!!!
But we frequented the place so often... ( it being our fav weekend getaway...) it soon became so much etched in my mind tht.... it feels so much at home...every turn...every bend...every tiny little tea stalls on the way....the whole ride itself s the reward..! the fact tht it jus takes a coupla hours to transform ur environs from the usual busybody day... to this most serene wilderness!! the memory of my foursome family....the laughter... the silly fears.. the excitement to spot the wayside wildlife...(elephants r known to be awestrikin if u ask me) it was like the easy little trip to our own Fantasy land...
I truly believe tht my love... passion.. for Nature cropped up slowly n deeply from these expeditions takin deep roots in the young mind... its like a part of me...any memory of my childhood s related to these numerous trips... certainly happy times!!! its hard to wipe out the smile once i start dweLling in those times!!
But it so happened tht wen i was around 10 yrs old or so... my dad got transferred pretty outta the state...We then darent think we were ever gonna make it back... at least certainl;y not for anytime soon!!
Years went by.. n the place jus got pushed to the back alleys of our memory lane...!! we did wish from time to time..wat fun it d be to get back carefree to those days!! but left it jus remained a whim...
Soon time came by for me to enter col.....i took up the medical field...it was the marking for bigger things of course...but some things even bigger than expected were lying hidden in wait for me..... for all of us... mom was diagnosed with Ca breast... followed an year of surgeries n chemo n radiotherapy.... im not goin into any further details....coz thts not wat i wanna blog abt exactly in this page.... anyway she made it out wonderfully after it all....n then followed 4 yrs of pure bliss... n dad even got transferred back to our old place.... things wer gleamin golden in our horizon.... jus wen we were settlin back comfortably, God Revealed He already had different plans for us... That one day changed our lives without even a bit of warning.... n we tumbled thro 8 most horrific months of our lives....which finally culminated in Amma passing on...
In Kerala...among hindus, we have a custom after a person passes on.... his or her offspring must perform certain ritual "Bali" as we call it... for each month for the next 12 months at certain temples known for undertakin this ritual... it so happened tht our favorite place was one known for such proceedings...
Never in our dreams wud we ever have thot this wud be the reason Fate wud give us, to visit our ex-Wonderland....but it did!!!
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