Finally Goa

After being away for more than a year, I was finally back on Annual leave. I had missed a lot over the last year……events which I had promised myself I would never miss….but circumstances and situations are such that we don’t always have a say on what we do.

As I walked out of that small cringy place they call an airport (I’m talking about the so called Pune International Airport) I had my first glimpse of my friends. My dotsy and son’n’law was standing there…(...long story behind these acronyms) It was then that I truly felt I was back where I belonged. Over the next few hours I met my other friends and that very night we left for Goa.

Ever since my dotsy and I were in college we had always planned this trip, but due to time and money (since our pocket money never seemed enough to support Goa) our plans never materialized…till now that is.

All 7 of us were now working and we all had our busy and hectic schedules to keep but we all managed to take this time off. We were all excited, about going to Goa and above all about being together after such a long time.

Its been more than 2 weeks now since we have come back from Goa, but some how we are still not totally out of that mood. Goa was much more than just a holiday or a long yearned trip. That week made me and some others realize what we truly have together…

A year back we were a bunch of friends waiting to grow up. I used to feel that we will all grow up one day and we will all have our own lives to live and we would all walk a different road. Today I see we have all grown up and we are still together. We do have our own lives but we have managed to stay on the same road. We have matured in our own ways and with this maturity we have come closer together.

Today although we have all grown up and have settled into our own lives, most of us are still bachelors and once we get married things are bound to change again. Maybe we would be less connected then and maybe we will walk a different road then….i don’t know….no one does.

‘Finally Goa’ is not about Goa or about the good times we had in Pune. It is my way of expressing that in some way it was only the beginning. Life will change and we will all be located in different parts of this world…UK, New Zealand, Israel…..and the list will go on. 'Finally Goa' is a place that will remind us that we always have a place to come back too…and that place isn’t Goa….it’s any place where we can all be together.