A very good friend from Germany was visiting Chennai last week and I must admit that it was a fantastic, fun filled, happy experience introducing her to my family and getting her to feel the culture and traditions of South India. I was amazed by the compromises she would make to adjust with the situations that were extremely unfamiliar to her and under normal circumstances would have made a European rather uncomfortable. When we tried to help her be a European, her statement to get going was "I am in an Indian family now and I do exactly what you do" - and that humility I admired a lot.
Back to the title of this blog, she actually was on a world tour covering different countries, India being the last one. One of the days while we were having dinner, I raised this question about how she planned the world tour at such a young age. In fact I was intrigued to ask this as I found her facebook page filled with envious comments. It all triggered off at a birthday party few months back where she met a common friend who mentioned about something called as "Round the word tickets". Getting back home she googled to find some great deals and thought she must make it and put that down in her "Dream list". She tried her luck filling up the vacation form (6 weeks vacation) and got a pleasant surprise from her boss - "Approved". In the meanwhile, the bank loan that she had applied for the World tour got processed as well. It was all falling in place and suddenly she was feeling like Phileas Fogg of Around the world in eighty days. Unlike Mr. Fogg, she did not have to prove a point to anyone that she could cover the world within a specified time and of course she did not have a man servant like Passepartout travelling with her. Well, she is such a nice person that her friends around the world decided to be Passepartout's. I am happy I was one of them who helped in her a small way fulfill her dream.
To me, her first step was to google and write down this desire as a part of her "Dream list" and the dream came true in no time. I am not amazed by this because I find this happening all around me and I firmly believe that if you take the first step...everything else will fall in place - Whatever you dream to do.
Dream BIG and Take the FIRST STEP!
Deilight yourself first to delight people around you. Most importantly make your choice NOW!
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