I TOOK A DAY OFF.....

..and I had the best day. I got up and had my coffee while sitting on the deck looking out over the yard and at the gardens.

 

So anyway I decide I am putting on my casuals, no deadlines, nothing I am just staying here with my memmories for the day.( for me this is a real treat with my job it is hard to take a day off).

 

I hadn't planned on it, but yesterday for the first time all year I didn't do any work. I've never been the type of person to call-in sick for a "mental health" day, but that's exactly what I did yesterday with my work.

 

Years ago, my friends and I used to clamor in a local tea café and discuss everything from relationships to work. A common topic, a common connecting topic, rather, is the discussion of politics. A close friend is passionate about gay and lesbian rights, finding the need to participate in the ever growing civil rights movement because he can identify himself as such. Another friend talks of her personal experiences as a Muslim in Gujarath.

I have been missing all this, so i rushed to my local tea cafe only to find it closed for he has moved to gulf for a better living. I moved to my friend's house who was passionate about gay rights only to see shamiana spread before his house, next sunday he is getting married.(No more a Gay!!)

I decided not to go further, I returned back home and started blogging.

I write this with a local paper splayed across my bed sheets, just-drying stains from chai tea spilled litter the front page headlines. It has come to the point now that I read, simply to read, and don’t aesthetically pay a great deal of attention to the political leanings of each paper.

But still I feel this break was needed.Its raining, and I feel rejuvenated after my day off.

 

This morning I have the blogging machine cranked-up and I've got posts flowing out of my finger tips.

 

I took a day off from the world today ....Just to relax and sit by the bay;It felt so good to take a breather, or two,And my thoughts, of course, drifted toward you.....

So all those out there.... take a day off..look around... May be you would find someone waiting for you, someone who is yours ... Like I did today .... Well details of that not now.:P