Go alone

by my recent experience of visit to chennai

ya ya i wanna brag that i visited chennai

by the way saravana coffee is the best coffee in the whole world .. i would fight anyone who says its not

but no one would!!!!!!

one thing i want to mention that i was alone
totally alone
i had no contacts in chennai ,on the way or anywhere near chennai

i asked a friend to join.. but i got some reasons which are not important

so where was i
yes i was alone

but i wasn't sad

being alone made me talk to people in the train

people who didn't know hindi marathi
people i might never see again :(


and many a times talking to people out of your daily circle increases your thinking bandwidth

you get to know new things

you get to make contacts


and did i mention you get to learn a lot

a lot

what i have gained by not having any so called friends in chennai is a lot

because if i did i would have spent an awful lot of time chatting with them or i would have discussed how the speaker from Australia pronounced 'the' and giggled with them

here i did all of that too

but with people i knew from a hour ago

and here i knew one thing for sure

these were people like me .. sharing the same set of interests

to whom words like citation and cryptography don't seem hostile alien or boring


these are people i must be calling friends

truly


so

if you want to grow
if you want to learn
if you want to meet new people make friends


Go on the next trip alone

you will return with more than just memories




:)

-Nilesh J Sakpal