They say travel gives u perspective ,atleast i get it. Having watched the movie highway,i boarded the comfortable shivneri bus from Pune to Mumbai.I felt like a part of the movie after having fought my anxieties and demons the very same day,the movie opened the pores of my brain (abstract,ofcourse!).The director is one free soul,his movies are never bound by limits of conventionalism.Surreal yet so real. Weird yet so relatable.Isnt this what we all desire?Pure unadultered freedom uncorrupted by worldly limitations.His movies sure haunt my brain.Coming back to the travel,i was already riding high on the rush i got after the movie(it could be samosa-diet coke,but iam reasonably sure it was the movie).Funnily or interestingly,of all the Batman's and Spidermans ,one character that i could truly relate to is a girl.The bus was extremely comfortable and less than half filled.The AC complemented the outside rain and further added to the poetic rush.The bus reached outskirts of pune and developer machine studded suburbs started appearing.Huge cranes against the mountains of khandala gave a deserted look.One building stood among sugarcane fields.just one building representing how innocence of the earth is corrupted by corporate bug and competition.Much like our lives,ruining our pure selves for the sake of success which is hardly a success now that i think.Yes u earn money,but is it really what we desired?Further into the road,i saw a bullock cart and a apartment building side by side.Never had i seen such simplicity and monstrous technology existing in such close vicinity.How oblivious is that simplicity of technology.Such serene wilderness corrupted by endless advertisements of Rahuls and modis and upcoming flats.Interestingly one ad for LAMCON read www.Iamcon.com. The name itself read "Iam con".Further greeted by the wilderness around lonavla and khandala,i just wanted to soak in the calm and freshness and never let go.why do i need a destination or an agenda or a dream,why cant i just live through.we work hard to reach a dream and then harder to sustain it but when do we live it.This whole concept of life seems like one big contradiction to me.Whuy should i do something to keep up with world,why cant i just live and keep up with me.Much like the protagonist in the movie,i wanted no aspirations ,no destinations,just mindless travel with no reason.Why do i need a reason to please myself.I seemed to agree with some ad in which aamir khan says,kabhi kisi anjaan station pe utar ke dekho ( Feel alive,just unboard at some unknown station).I might have gone overboard but this travel sure led me to rethink my priorities. Doing things just because they need to be done is not my cup of tea,I do things i want to do.I might feel trapped but its never too late.Bikers on the world class highway among wilderness gave me a complex. What bliss it must be to bike on this road in this weather.Finally the suburbs started prevailing again and welcome to the big bad mumbai. This dream of a travel may have dawned,but this poetic rush is yet to subside. Some may compare it to a little kids sugar rush,but hey ,we used to love that. Life as we know it can wait for this one hell of joyride. As i unboard the bus,joy is perhaps the most misunderstood entity.Its trivial,its within us.
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