No Dream too big.No Distance too long.

“I’m sitting here in the boring room
It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I’m wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I’m hanging around
……
But nothing ever happens and I wonder why

……“( Fools Garden – Lemon Tree)

I was dying of boredom until when my friend came out with a crazy plan. A Walk to the Beach 

Well, is it that crazy to walk to the beach? Not really!!! Unless the beach is 15 Km from your house and the city has already slept.

Map to show what is so crazy about my Walk to the beach

                                              

                                                  Chennai City Map 

It was a journey that started from one end of the city and ended at the other. I expected it to be a long, demanding and colorless a march.

 

As myself and Deepak and also John came out of my house I rushed backed to my room .I had left my mobile back there, Mobile Phone has been my latest crush.

And as soon as we started we had confusion over the route which we were to go. There were too many routes to decide on. Finally, we decided to take the shortest route to the seafront and started walking. Deepak and I were already hooked to our mobile phones. But since it was already late the replies started drying, so had to put the mobile back into my pocket. And when I looked at the time, only then I realized we had walked for an hour now and the distance we covered was just 2 odd KM. Second thoughts began to pop up. Time speeding like the Hare Distance slogging like the Tortoise .But we know who won the race 

We decided to accelerate our pace. To make things less boring John started narrating his college stories. This guy has studied in 4 colleges, discontinued from most. A dozen Schools. A brief introduction about his college life was all it took for us to cover 3Km.Totally, we had now covered 5 Km, so we decided to do our first pit stop at a small Petty Shop and we started again .

 

But again hunger was slowed our pace. Johns college incidents were exciting  enough to cover  another 2Km in no  time .Now having covered half the distance we decided to stop for dinner at hotel near my college, I recommended the place as which was our favorite hangout during my college days.

 

And we started again, as we walked amidst the traffic bypassing the signals. We were filled with joy that had no bounds. The silly reason, At least for once we weren’t caught up in traffic. John wasn’t finished yet. His life has been a non-stop roller coaster ride.

 

I have been talking about John all the while that I forgot to tell about Deepak. He is one of the funniest persons I had ever met, etc. I have loads to tell about him which I will do later. His role in this blog. Well, He is the one who gave the idea and of course kept us entertained us with his humor.

People in general walk for two reasons
1. A leisure Activity
 2 .Mode of transport

I don’t fit in either of these. I was thinking why was I walking? Who knew? I was walking for the sake of walking.

 

At last we reached Gemini Flyover, the hottest spot in Chennai for traffic. It was some 10 Km from my house.<br>

When I looked back at the distance I had traveled .I couldn’t believe that   I had traveled so far. It brought within me a sense of gratification.  But, I had a long distance ahead so turned back and started walking. We had reached the last stretch of road that will take us to the beach. It was a quite a long road. It was so near yet so far. We kept walking on and on for more than 30 minutes .At last we could smell salty air. We could see the horizon where the ocean and the sky met. It was a great feeling to the see the beach at last after 3 painstaking hours of walking.

 

I had started walking with no motive but when I reached the beach I had within me a sense of achievement. I felt that if we wanted do something; we can do it no matter what. It was the moment I realized

No Dream Too Big .No Distance Too Long