Stranger at a airport

by Jayshree Jha (India)

A leap into the unknown India

Sometimes fairy tales happen but with an unexpected twist That's how my travel journey started I was actually sitting in the lounge area in banglore airport when I met a stranger he was sitting next to me and we were there waiting there for a long time. So after a while we started talking and we actually hit it off..it was a good start we had almost same answers to everything it was like talking to a mirror...quite frankly it was a nice feeling and turn out we both had the same flight back to pune. We exchanged number as he was leaving for dubai I never thought he will call or text bcoz we had only known each other for like 3 hrs . Cut to 3 months later ... For the past 3 months it was all good we were pen friends so when he came back to india he made sure he would come down to meet me ..we went to lonavala for the first time together it was fun I actually started my travel journey from there after few days he had a flight to catch and didn't go back and we booked a zoomcar and went to panchgani for the weekend , we bonded we drank we went in various treks met a bunch of strangers..it was all in good fun . We stayed in zostel panchgani Turns out 2 days later he came back again he asked me to come down he was accompanied by a friend of his ...they told they were taking me for brkfast and I will be dropped by my house after that but apparently there is no food available in pune so I was taken to panchgani ... I stayed ! drank ! treked ! Did a tonnes of bornfire ! We had some epic nights And we ended up buying clothes from the market near by bcoz as u know I didn't carry anything so apparently I stayed there for about 2 months we used to help out in zostel ...we stayed free of cost ..in those 2 months we made some epic memories some of them are pretty amazing and some are horrifying as u can't always make good decision while u r drunk .. But at the end after 6 months of constantly coming back and forth from pune to panchgani we All kind of fell apart ... But it was a nice time that I spent there in the mountains with sky full of stars and friends that meant a lot and to all endless nights of drunk bornfire I found my love to travel so after that I started travelling with a lot of off beat places that showed me even more love and thought me to love and respect my self so at the end .. these people were all strangers at a point of time but a single leap of faith brought me one step more close to finding what exactly my heart desires ... For me after an year of this travelling has turn out to me as a beautiful yet insane addiction to be at peace It was such an unexpected surprise that happened that will stay with me for a life time .. Now I have my own travel page with few random followers across the globe with a wish to one day visit all the places in the world and living my life just in a better version of this beautiful fairy tale of full of surprises and twist with strangers who. Turns out to be a family