Tag: Travel

Thoughts Train..

Samir Saxena1 Comment
Looking outside the glass window
Zooming past the warm silhouette of the night..
A lonely lamp post
A shadow of a ghost..
A swaying tree
A man walking in glee..
A few plastic bags
A girl in rags..
A solitary traveller
A hippie reveller..
I turn back to the book in my hand
And let my soaring imagination land..
I listen to the end of Led Zapplin putting up a stairway
Next up is Bon Jovi screaming how Frankie said he did it his way..
I stop my ipod, put the book to my chest in a warm hug
And listen intently to this train’s chug chug..

P.S. Random lines that came to my mind and put them down during one of my train journeys from Bombay to Delhi..

Arrears of Hard work..finally redeemed!!

Samir Saxena6 Comments
 It took grueling 7 years 4 months and 2 days for me to decide to finally redeem the arrears of hard work. I quote Aristotle here “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

So true. Repeated hard work at the mundane 9 to 5, made me habitually wonder “Am I moving towards achieving excellence at what I am doing?” I couldn’t search myself for the answer. Doing the same thing day-in and day-out, should have convinced me to say YES to that. But I couldn’t.

I needed something to look deeper inside me, move me from within, make me think, question myself more than questioning around, explore and go back to what I absolutely loved doing while I was in college, and when my horizons expanded: Motorcycling.

They say “Motorcycle not only moves the body, but the soul”. I thought, time has come to fulfill the awaited dream. Time to buy my own Royal Enfield. With the value of money going down day by day, it wasn’t easy to make up my mind financially to buy such an expensive coalition of art and technology. But I managed.

27th May, 2010: I finally got delivery of my Thunderbird Twinspark. Heavens know it, I was the happiest soul at that moment.

I know this post is coming pretty late, when I already have done quite a few soul searching rides on my Thunderbird. But then, as my blog’s name suggests, I was profusely confused to decide whether to put this here or not. Well then, you know the answer. देर आये दुरुस्त आये!!!