A friend asked me recently, “Which place would you love to get away to?”
I gave it a thought and took a long pause before answering.
Finally, instead of saying my answer out loud, I wrote it on a piece of paper: “Nowhere.”
She was perplexed and thought I was joking, but I guess the seriousness on my face made her know I wasn’t kidding. Still confused, she asked, “Nowhere?!”
“Sahas, you don’t want to go anywhere on a getaway vacation?”
“Perception, my friend,” I replied.
Now, she was super uncertain, what the hell was this guy even saying? 🤯
I explained, “When I wrote “Nowhere” on a piece of paper, you thought I didn’t want to go anywhere. On the contrary, what I actually meant was “now-here”, not “no-where.”
“I do not want to be at any place without being present and in the moment. Reality is now. It’s here. Why do I want a get away from it?”
You guessed right! She did a facepalm and went away. 🙈
The point is, we get so much consumed by what we want to listen to that we forget words sometimes-often, actually-have a…
