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Posted on: Nov 21, '08

Off track and barefoot!

How often do you do something you did as a kid? Yeah, ok even if it means playing chor police... Last weekend I had gone to Lonavala for a jammin session. It was a night of playing music till morning and alcohol too. Hee hee. Anyway, I was kinda Old Monked out.

At 6:30 in the morning, when you are already high on music and Old Monk, you just feel like stretching out your arms and wishing the sky would embrace you. I walked on dew drop-kissed grass. Then it hit me, something I had been wanting to do for a long time. Walk barefoot like I used to when we were kids. Back then you could be running barefoot for hours on uneven and pebbled surface but your feet didn't hurt.

So, I decided to do it that morning. I stepped out alone, in an unknown place. Barely two minutes later, one dude who had come for the jammin session drove up and asked me to hop in. I thought it would be rude not to, so we went for a short drive and the guy said he was actually leaving but he saw me walking alone and saw a strange guy looking at me strangely, so he got worried.

We drove a bit and found a beautiful little white temple made of marble. It feels divine to walk barefoot on cool marble. Behind the temple was a garden with benches with mushroom-shaped shades. We sat there for a bit, staring at nothing. Yeah, we made some conversation too, but that wasn't important. The hills were important. The sunrise was important. The trees were important.

We went back and 10 mins after that two of my friends felt like going for a walk, so I stepped out again with them. Then they decided to sit somewhere on a kattaa and talk, but I carried on. Then another friend followed with his guitar. We walked to the temple again. Sat in the sunlight for a while talking about this and that.

It was a good 15 minutes walk... barefoot. We walked more and reached a barren land, that had small yellow flower and shrubs in bits and parts... and in between the black rocks, beige land and yellow flowers was a 10-foot small hillock. We got atop that. We stared at the hills again, felt the breeze against our skin, trying to ignore the !dea signboard on a bridge. Then my friend played the guitar and sang.

My other two friends joined us. One of them dozed off sitting on a rock. The other friend and I just lay there on the black rock, letting sunrays fall on us. It felt beautiful to be sun-kissed all over.

Then we walked back. Those 30 minutes of barefoot walk took me right back to when we were young.

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flirtmanGEM said:
Staying close to nature always feels good.

Childhood days are lost cause either we live in the past or future and never in the present to appreciate the real us, things and people around us. Even when we are watching a beautiful flower, we are thinking of some work or someone that is more important.

So, once in a while staying close to nature and at the same time, in the present makes you really feel awesome.

November 26, '08

notjustart said:

True! Such moments occur not too often and we all cherish thenm for the life time! I too miss on those walks I used to take on the beach or in the garden on the lawn!

November 24, '08

tenjade_destiny said:
Isn’t it interesting how great things happen when we get back down to something we used to love and missed doing it, all these days, loved it nova

November 23, '08

MyZoneCAN said:
Dhaval,
It sounds more like reliving "late teens"! A vivid account....I must say!!

November 22, '08

King-Bulls-Ring said:
Well, Nova, u seemed to have opened a Pand's Box.!!! It looks there is gonna be a looong list of what-you-can-do - that-you-did - as-a-kid stuff...
Can I ask something - When was the last time you laughed Wthout inhibitions.. blasting and blaring laugh.. continuous for more than 30 minutes? until yout chins ache and eyes flooded with tears?
sounds easy..? not really.. write another blog on that. Will ya?
Hugs and hugs...

Live like a child... thats how Angels live...

November 22, '08

Garret2000 said:
Fab walk..

Great time you had..

We all forget the simple essence of life and get lost in the maze of nothingness..

Great eyeopener..

Lovely post..

Kudos

Cheers
Garret

November 22, '08

chithrajust said:
---------you should try eating cotton candy and playing on the wooden rocking horse------you'll got RIHGT back to your childhood-------

November 22, '08

sazzyme said:
u gota be kidding me nova..u were all 'monked'out,and in that state

u made a decision -that of walking barefoot-and u telling me u remembered that in the morning!!

maaaan i tell ya...they dont make it like they used to anymore

just kiddin

hey ur pal dozed off! lol...darn hugs ok...for going back to being a kid..however flash-in-the-pan kinda it been...
u still did it..

November 21, '08

eternalessencefoever said:
lol@old monked!!!

Its amazin how we tend to foget to do that lil crazy stuff that made us so happy!!

Be it walking barefeet
playing in the rain
catching butterflies
bicycling...

Grt to know that u were sunkissed!!

November 21, '08

ladyinred17 said:
Old monked....lol!!

Sunkissed morn,
lingering dawn
sparkling dew drops in the lawn
barefoot....
mingled and became one with the stillness around
felt the droplets
smelt the freshess
savoured the moments
a stranger
quiet moments
silent serene
.............

old monked or not.....what a lovely day.....stillness in time......

November 21, '08

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