"Its like a rain on your wedding day... its a free ride when you have already paid" - Alanis Morisette.
Well... I don't get to experience the ironies of life so much really. Been really very fortunate to keep sailing and stay afloat without hitting an iceberg even when probably navigating myself directionless in the polar regions of the world. Then struck an experience which to be honest, I might probably keep looking back at and laughing out aloud..!
I am a big time car buff. Every other time, I used to keep renting cars and go out driving almost every weekend. Having toured all states in the northeast of the USA except Maine (that would be for the next visit, whenever that is!!), the last thing that I was expecting was a day to come when I would be buying my own car and drive it for less than a 100 miles in a span of 3 weeks time and give it off on grounds of taking more rest..!!
It was a good old manual Subaru Forrester. I cherished its "all-in-one" kind of a build. It was like the Egyptian Sphinx - It had the windows of a convertible (there was no frame), the look of a SUV and the ride of a car.
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Some people talk of taking rest and doing nothing as the easiest thing. I would ever wonder if that is as simple as it sounds. It was a humbling experience I must admit, when I had to spend close to ten days just taking absolute rest - doing nothing, in a very literal sense! For me, the concept of rest has always been synonymous with probably lying down an reading a book or newspaper, listening to a song, taking a relaxed walk along the lanes in a park etc and never about doing nothing and just lying.
