On the move

Literally, that's how it has been the last few months. First we had our long holiday to Europe. Then I went to Jharsuguda for a course. Then we went on a holiday with family to Sikkim. Next was another course at Lanjigarh. Next week I am in Bangalore and then later this month, again at Jharsuguda for yet another course.
All these trips come with a huge list of to-dos. Especially when you are travelling with two young kids. Even with my husband, there's so much to do! Paris was just so much of walking and visiting, meuseums, galleries, shopping etc etc.
Luzern, on the other hand was so lovely. The perfect place to unwind, and try the world's best fondue!
But why do I love the trips that I take alone sooooo much, that a village in Orissa, literally in the middle of nowhere, becomes the perfect getaway. Well, technically speaking it was not a holiday...I was there to take a course, APEX programme for Vedanta, but for all purposes, it was. I was within myself, completely. I went for long endless walks and woke up early for sadhna. I saw the clouds floating by and kissing the hilltops and also managed to review the documents for office. I savoured the idly for breakfast and diligently allowed myself to go deep into each day's content and reflect on what it meant to my life. It was a time where work also felt the same as holidaying because there was no difference. I was just so...myself!!
There are possibly few times when I find myself perfectly in place in the world. Where I fit in, so perfectly, doing exactly that little bit that I am supposed to do. No sense of ambition to achieve more drives me, no sense of futility at what I could have but did not achieve.
After a long time, I had given myself completely to the phenomenon of conducting a course, because that is what it is, a phenomenon, where my role fits in oh! so perfectly. The phenomenon is the transformation in the participants and me being a witness to something very profound. Truly, it is these moments that make life worth living.