Wondering Clouds

"Flight no. 6E 0429 the boarding is about to begin proceed to gate 23E." Ohw so that is my flight, it is time to head to the gate but where is it ??? This was my first journey alone but not my first visit to the airport and I simply couldn't find the gate (yeah well funny ya!) ah! there is the arrow to the gate and it is downstairs (sometimes the brain behaves strangely panics at petty things !) and in the next 15 minutes I was on the flight (A long Que + a bus ride + finding the seat ). Yay!!! It is real, my solo trip to Mumbai is happening and for the next few days it will be like mai aur meri tanhaiyee to be less dramatic in the bliss of solitude! After the take off, it was the usual people sleeping, eating, chatting and I also saw a few people binge watching series (ya I did peep into peoples phones, I was just killing my curiosity if the series would interest me!)"Please fasten your seat belts we expect turbulence because of the heavy rain." I said to myse...

It is still three hours to my flight but taking no chances with my past experiences of always being late, I just could not afford to miss this one! Mornings are not my best friend but today I had this strange energy, in no time I was on my way to the airport.  There we reached. Ma and bro came to see me off. It is going to happen finally I told myself. Bidding them adieu I walked towards the entrance phew I heaved I had never ever been all by myself ever in my life and now I will be alone for the rest of the week. It felt like I'm leaving something behind, there is something missing teary I was and I was like will I be able to survive even a day and suddenly the emotion took a total 360 turn and I went into all frantic mode " I have to collect the boarding pass!" and and what about the security check of my luggage ah! this bags heavy I would have to do everything myself! Without much a do I straightway went ahead to collect my boarding pass from one of those fancy auto...