Yayavar mode on - Again

My family is really into Astrology and zodiac signs etc. All the family members have their janam patri listing the prophecy and predictions about our lives.
Personally I am a bit confused about its veracity, but I don't dismiss it completely either. It does make for a casual fun read as it mostly says only good things about you. I also believe that people writing daily horoscope has a serious psychological writing talent as majority of people relate with it. Obviously, there is some scientific logic behind this which is maybe too obscure for us right now.
Anyways one of the predictions made about me was that I will be traveling a lot both in India and abroad in my future life. For a typical Punjabi family for whom greener pastures in Canada and Australia are always alluring. This was no big deal. 
I had memories of long travel since a very young age. My father was in army, so we use to shift the house after every 3-4 years. Majority of my childhood memories at that time are from cantonment in Goa where I did my schooling from 2nd to 5th. As our native village is in Punjab. We used to travel from Goa to Punjab in train in every summer break. It was a three-day journey which involves changing of train too. It is a whole world taking long duration train journeys in India. After my father retirement We settled in Chandigarh which was a biggest city near my village. We were living in south end of Chandigarh and my school was in north end of Chandigarh even though it is a very small city. So, on daily basis I used to take school bus from one part of city to another and later I covered the same distance on cycle at the end of school and beginning of college.
As I have no intention of writing my autobiography here, we can conclude in a nutshell that I have been traveling most of my life one way or another. However last few years have been very interesting in this regard. I come to Gurugram (then it was called Gurgaon or Gurgawan in local colloquial terms) in 2011, the decision was primary because my company was in Gurugram only. In 2014, my company shifted to Connaught place, Delhi. My office commute increased by around 1 hour in morning and evening each. The only solace was that I was travelling by metro, so it was not so taxing. But even this relief was also short-lived.  In 2016 I changed my job to a company based in Greater Noida (I live in Gurugram by the way). Initially I had some training and was deputed in Malaysia, but I came to India in last quarter of 2016. Then onwards for 3.5 years till the time I left my job I was commuting from my home to office which is around 80km one way. That too in peak office hours in Delhi traffic. It seems my biggest achievement in that company is not the exposure and knowledge I gained but rather the feat of surviving this mad traffic for 4-5 hours on daily basis  I could write blog post on this topic.
Like any other job; there have been good days as well as bad days in my previous job, the bad days could be due to extra work on hand, some inadvertent mistake by me or it’s just that I was not feeling well. But whatever the reason maybe, the long car drives back home used to become a struggle on those days. In the hindsight, this daily suffer in Hindi and English, my boss who was like a big banyan tree and the recent perception by top boss in my previous company that I am up to no good was instrumental reasons behind my leaving that company.
Though I am saved from daily office commute in my current job as I am working from home only. Business travel or official travel is much more here. Most of the places are new for me where I have not travelled much in my previous jobs. Thus, slowly, and gradually I am trying to rekindle my love for traveling. This life has its own charm and I have always liked it. Spending time at airport or hotels, living out of suitcase, trying new local cuisines while on travel, as a sign of current times, getting RT PCR done or evading quarantine at airports exit. I have always been enamoured by people who are well travelled and well read. Now I am trying to inculcate the habits in myself.
However travel is much more than moving from point A to B. Its having your me time which can be used for introspection, testing your discipline and willpower,  getting exposed to new experiences, Meditation bundled into one.

PS : In our society, the janam patri also serves important purpose in match making as it's used to match planetary alignment between prospective bride and groom but that is a topic of another post.
PPS : Yayawar is an Hindi work which means travellers or more accurately someone who is addicted to wander lust. I read it in a story in college some 15-16 years back, but I stayed with me. Strangely one of the other stories that I remember was titled “Neelkant ka Safar”.