What are you working on? And how are you working on whatever you are working on?
The Albert Victor Bridge in Madurai was built in 1886 and was supposed to last a 100 years! It’s still standing. Being of value and use to the day. Long after the engineers went back and the river ran dry.
Good work solves problems. Great work solves problems, through time as well. The option to do both exists all the time. The choices are ours to make.
(at Madurai, India)
It’s practically illegal to visit San Francisco and not post a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. Or so it seems, judging by the questions when you don’t! 
But beyond its stunning presence, this bridge is a lesson in persistence. Built in 1937, it didn’t just appear overnight. It took over a decade of battling opposition—financial worries, engineering doubts, even fears that it would ruin the bay’s beauty.
Today, those objections feel almost absurd, drowned out by its practical and symbolic value.
Because here’s the thing—the awesome doesn’t get built overnight. And most importantly, it doesn’t look awesome when it’s still in the mind.
So, what are you building? Keep going. The world may not see it yet, but one day, they’ll wonder how it ever wasn’t there.
There are bridges. And then there are bridges like the Bay Bridge—a quiet giant, standing tall, strong, and purposeful.
With two layers of traffic, it has carried the weight of San Francisco’s rhythm since the 1930s—even before the much-photographed Golden Gate Bridge. Yet, it doesn’t seek attention. It simply delivers.
Its stature doesn’t come from fame, but from function. It serves, connects, and holds up the flow of a city that never slows down.
The Bay Bridge is one to be absorbed—not just by the eye, but by all it represents beyond what is seen.
The trouble with grand moments in life is that they come unannounced. Just like that. Suddenly. Many a time you don’t even realise how grand a moment is until its passed.
That is perhaps one more reason why we ought to treat each moment as a precious moment. Each interaction as important and every minute with joyous energy.
While the most immediate arc is what is visible, every arc must be passed to cross the bridge. Viewed together, it’s a pretty picture.
Live it grand!
(at San Francisco Bay Bridge)
Locks of Love.
The couple literally lock up (their love) and throw the key into the river.
It is an irony, isn’t it, to see locks standing in for love. But the redemption, if it were, is with the keys thrown into the river. Perhaps snared by it for safekeeping. In full flow.
After all what good is love if it cannot flow? And what good is flow if it cannot breach?
I wrote about it here : https://www.kaviarasu.com/2015/04/locks-of-love/
#Love #LocksofLove #LoveLocks #Travel #travelblogger #Europe #river #bridge #EU #sights #Signs #symbols #culture #people (at Brugge, Belgium)
Locks of Love.
The couple literally lock up (their love) and throw the key into the river.
It is an irony, isn’t it, to see locks standing in for love. But the redemption, if it were, is with the keys thrown into the river. Perhaps snared by it for safekeeping. In full flow.
After all what good is love if it cannot flow? And what good is flow if it cannot breach?
I wrote about it here : https://www.kaviarasu.com/2015/04/locks-of-love/
#Love #LocksofLove #LoveLocks #Travel #travelblogger #Europe #river #bridge #EU #sights #Signs #symbols #culture #people (at Brugge, Belgium)
The balustrade on the bridge over the River Sienne on Paris, has seen much river flow beneath it. So much so, that it barely warms up to the Sun making its appearance in the horizon.
The Sun isn’t making an appearance for the Sienne either. Some sort of a magical coincidence.
The average traveller in me revels at such coincidences as we pack our bags one more time today.
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