Letter to the Unknown Reader Series 1 - Free spirit

Hello Dearest Reader,

Hope the week treated you well. The summer heat didn’t tandoor you the way my tropic is doing to me. At times I wonder if climate change will make it miserable for us bit by bit, just the way we rampaged and played with the patience of nature slowly over centuries of human civilisation. Long story short, summers in India and specially in the bursting-to-the-seams; cities are not the least pleasant. 

In such a weather a group of like minded women decided to unwind on a Friday night in one of the quaintly beautiful Japanese restaurants in Mumbai. Shifuku as the name goes didn’t disappoint us either with their food, music or ambiance. The sushis and the nigiris are to die for and the ever smiling mixologist did churn up some wonderful mocktails, for the non alcoholic me.

Here I was in the august company of women who had walked different stories of their lives with elan, grace and wit. Each out did the other in the way they managed their love, their career, their home, their passion and celebrated their true spirit in the most unique way, only they can do. 

I was curiously touched by the journey of one, who simplified it by saying, “ Left home at 19, had live-in relationship twice and by 28 I knew marriage was not for me”. We rolled with laughter as she wittily mentioned that she’s heading to the capital city to be next-door neighbours to her bestie of 20 years. The best friend is a lesbian and living life Queen size, without being buried under societal, parental and self manufactured expectations. Such wonderful free spirits that roamed the earth makes it worth the while to embrace the stories of such kinds as you interact. I was so taken with the courage, grit and the faith in creating her own destiny, I almost bowed down in reverence. I’m sure the path must not have been easy. And her journey though kaleidoscopic, was lonely at times.

To such wonderful women who owns up to the life they created and flaunts their destiny like a crown, we owe the paths that are created for generations that follows us. Not that one has to replicate the journey, but the courage and the spirit is worth embracing a million times over.

Cheers to such powerhouse women. May you come across such rebel queens in your life. May you be inspired and wish you creation of your own kind of kingdom. See you next week. Till then, enjoy the summers if you’re away from the tropics. And my readers who hug the tropics, let’s pray for the rains to bless our lives.

Always yours,

Pocket full of life