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No Whispering Winds for Me!

Posted on July 7, 2014April 22, 2021

A few days back I was reading a beach scene somewhere (don’t ask me where or I may get beaten or ridiculed or maybe both) which left me wondering, why don’t I think like that, I mean ever? It was a sun kissed beach with sparkling blue waters, verdant shade and idyllic beauty. Or some such thing, a step just short of paradise. I too have been to a lot of beaches (much less than I would actually like to go to, though) but the word sun kissed never even passed through my brain. What to do? There are no whispering winds for me either!

The wind was whispering among the trees: Now I must be deaf, stone deaf for I never heard the whispering wind among the trees. If there is a storm and a loud crash, I can hear it alright. But what is this whispering business that completely refuses to reveal itself to me and yet it is heard by so many? Rustling of leaves, I still understand, cool breeze I have felt on particularly hot days but this whispering bit is completely beyond me. Maybe they whisper in Spanish, hence I don’t understand!

narrow bylanes
Narrow Lanes #lumia1020

The narrow lanes that took us back in time: Well, the narrow lanes look like narrow lanes to me. If I peer even harder they still look like narrow lanes to me and nothing else. I like them, don’t get me wrong, particularly, if they are the type where motor vehicles are prohibited, because then it is a pleasure to walk there. But not sure about back in time stuff! Back in time I actually lived in a big spacious house, and I now live on a narrow street. Maybe that is why they don’t take me back in time. And what is the point if they remind me of the present, no one likes living in the present anyway!

waves
Soft Crash of Waves? #lumia1020

Soft crash of waves against the sands: Really, when you go to a beach, do you listen to the soft crash of waves against the sand? Once again for me this goes back to the first category, I must be deaf. When I go to the beach I see lot of water, blue water, unless it is Maldives. There one can actually see many shades of blue. I like walking on the sand when the waves are mild (or softly crashing if you prefer) as it only gets my feet wet and not my camera! They can crash anyway only against the sand as usually there is nothing else to crash against! They can crash against the rocks too but rocks are not conducive to walking. And if you can’t walk along the beach, well what is the point of being on a beach?

Everest-Base-Camp-Nepal
Tear Inducing Scenery! #canon550D

The scenery moved me to tears: I have to admit I was once almost moved to tears. It was when I reached the Everest Base Camp. But I suspect that it had much more to do with the exhaustion of walking for a few hours at 5000 meters and above than with the scenery. I was in awe of the place for sure as what was the end point for me, was the starting point for the Everest climbers. Real climbers start their trip from where city dwellers like me walk back! But it was moving me ‘almost’ to tears for all the wrong reasons, chiefly because I was not too fit and it was a royal pain to reach there!

art
Art #lumia1020

The painting was a symbol of happiness/agony: But more than anything else it is the museums and art that confuses me the most. I can see people standing in front of a painting with a look of rapture all over their face. The same painting would like a crumbly bunch of flowers to me! But if they say it was a symbol of happiness then it must be. Even more confusing are those random black dots that are a symbol of agony, to me they look like, well random black dots.

Now I am sure there is something wrong with me and not with the whispering winds and softly crashing waves and the like. But then if the winds don’t whisper to me, they don’t whisper to me. Yet it does not diminish my love for travel in any way. They can go and do their whispering someplace else. Now if only I would know what it was that kept me hooked to traveling, I would be able to express it so much better! Till then you have to suffer posts like these.

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26 thoughts on “No Whispering Winds for Me!”

  1. Tushar says:
    July 7, 2014 at 9:35 pm

    A regular traveler also need Holidays?
    No writing, No clicking of pictures and No post?
    Is this the best or one of the best solution?
    I don’t know but maybe Yes the answer.
    Agree or disagree?

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:09 pm

      Tushar the idea is appealing but I don’t think I can say yes to it, at least not yet.

      Reply
  2. Maniparna Sengupta Majumder says:
    July 7, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    I like the ‘suffering’ which your posts offer… 😀

    Reaching the base camp is also a feat…all the photographs are so lovely..I like the ” Narrow Lanes” most… 🙂

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:09 pm

      Thank you Maniparna 😀 I have the kindest people reading my blog.

      Reply
  3. Lady Fi says:
    July 7, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    Had to laugh at your words. Lovely shots!

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:08 pm

      Thank you Lady Fi.

      Reply
  4. Renuka says:
    July 8, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    As usual, wonderful pictures. I particularly liked that alley shot.

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    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:08 pm

      Thank you Renuka.

      Reply
  5. Seeta says:
    July 8, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    That had me in splits … ummm ‘soft’ splits maybe? 😛 😛

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    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:07 pm

      Thank you Seeta 😀 😀

      Reply
  6. Bikram says:
    July 8, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    wowow you reached the base camp .. you know this is on my bucket list one day god willing I would love to go there and probably try climbing toooo ..

    beautiful pictures

    Bikram

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:05 pm

      Bikram I have no training as a climber but after the trek I seriously thought for a while if I should do a course and then decided it was not for me.

      Reply
  7. sindhoooo says:
    July 8, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    Ha haa 😀 Had a good laugh reading your words… 😀 About the artworks, even I don’t really understand the modern art… As you said, they look completely different to me too 🙂 🙂 Besides this, I fell for the beautiful clicks Mridula… 🙂

    Regards,
    Sindhu
    Tantu
    The Arts & Me

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:05 pm

      Thank you so much Sindhu 😀

      Reply
  8. Nilesh says:
    July 8, 2014 at 4:46 pm

    funny post :). also first picture is awesome. which is this place ?

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:04 pm

      Nilesh 😀 that is Kerala Backwaters.

      Reply
  9. Hemu says:
    July 8, 2014 at 5:08 pm

    Narrow Lanes, a moniker of those good old days 🙂

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:04 pm

      I think so too 😀

      Reply
  10. ilakshee says:
    July 8, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    We will continue to ‘suffer’ quite happily provided you bring on more travel tales. 🙂

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:03 pm

      Thank you Ilakshee 😀

      Reply
  11. Chaitali Patel says:
    July 8, 2014 at 9:17 pm

    Ha ha.. I like your sense of humor and honesty!

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:03 pm

      Thank you Chaitali. 😀

      Reply
  12. Tinker bell says:
    July 8, 2014 at 9:32 pm

    Wow!

    I love travelling… And I loved your post!

    :-))

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:02 pm

      Thank you, if you have a blog do let me know about it.

      Reply
  13. Manish Kumar says:
    July 8, 2014 at 11:14 pm

    Hmmm u haven’t heard whispering winds.. no problem let’s go a step further

    कंघी रखके दाँतों में
    आवाज़ किया करती है हवा
    कुछ फटी फटी.. झीनी झीनी
    बालिग होते लड़कों की तरह 🙂

    It all depends how u perceive the nature around u & how u relate those sight & sounds to mundane things. Btw why should u bother? That’s the work of a poet not a travel writer . Is n’t it ?

    Reply
    1. Mridula says:
      July 9, 2014 at 11:02 pm

      And Manish honestly said I am no poet at all! I anyway wrote this tongue in cheek 😀

      Reply

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I did my Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur. I worked full time in academics till 2015! I quit my job as a professor, thinking I will take a break for one year, which turned into five.

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