imagine

May 10, 2016UncategorizedChildren, daddy, dads, dadsndaughters, daughter, daughterdiaries, destinations, energy, Growth, imagine, instapassport, kids, Learning, Love, Metaphor, mindset, pool, startup, swim, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust, work, workethic

To splash around is great fun. To splash around doesn’t get you a great distance. But its good fun nevertheless.

There are those for whom life is a series of splashes. And there are the others who cover a long distance with minimal splash.

A stroke here. A stroke there. A dive now. A glide underwater. A few bubbles that show progress. And then the head shows up on the other side of the pool.

The little miss isn’t interested. She wants to splash.

There is a time and place for everything. A time to splash. And another to swim. In a kids world, the fun is in the splash.
Yes, in a kid’s world.

(at Bangkok, Thailand)

May 7, 2016Uncategorizedairplane, blogger, Blogging, Children, compassion, dadsanddaughters, daughter, daughterdiaries, destinations, empathy, family, flight, heights, imagination, imagine, instapassport, instatravel, kids, kindness, Love, mankind, oneness, socks, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust

The little miss and her imagination gives me new flight.

She plants her legs on the airplane window and states with great excitement “Papa my legs are touching the sky”. Her smile and shriek of joy lights up the plane. Or at least parts close to where we are seated.

I wonder how many of you will lay claim to the big blue sky. If you ever do so, remember there is a young lady who planted her feet up there first 🙂

May 1, 2016Uncategorizedblogger, Blogging, Children, destinations, Growth, imagine, instapassport, instatravel, kids, Learning, Love, Metaphor, mimdset, passion, Pattaya, startup, Thailand, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust

If you seek to grow, watch your children. In their curiosity, in their seeking, in their sense of play they teach us so much.

In seeing them at happy effortless play with kids with different skin colours, I learn that it is human to reach out and relate.

It is when I see them jump with joy at the sight of everyday occurrences (‘Yeahhhah, the Sun is back") needles me in the direction of wonder and joy.

And when they discard their shoes to walk barefeet, I learn the joys of feeling the earth. It teaches me a thing or two about staying grounded.

Watch kids. They can teach you a heap.

Try.

(at Pattaya, Thailand)

April 29, 2016Uncategorizedair, blogger, Blogging, compassion, destinations, empathy, flight, heights, imagination, imagine, instapassport, instatravel, kindness, mankind, oneness, river, startup, Travel, traveladdict, travelblogger, travelinsights, traveller, traveltheworld, wanderlust

Heights. There is something about heights that fascinates. And teaches.

From up in the sky, the mighty river against the massive Sun is but a thread under a bulb. The massive cliff, a half eaten cookie. Giant houses morph into tiny squares.

Boundaries don’t exist! The map is not the territory. There is no end to the sky and Earth doesnt ‘start’ anywhere. They just merge. Everything is one!

Perhaps that is a good perspective to have as we grapple with our lives and work. To view everything as just a part of a large ‘oneness’. To view ourselves too. As connected beings.

Suddenly everything becomes easy. Kindness. Love. Compassion. Brotherhood. Affection. It is a a lovely emotion to hold tight to.

Take to the skies. Perhaps, in your mind. Go on. Close your eyes.

Fly.