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Comfortably numb...

Yet again a long gap... and this time not a nice one at all!!

Had my laptop bag stolen in rome which had my passport, cards, license etc in it - and went thru a whole lot of chaos.. which honestly seems much tougher in retrospect... at that point maybe was just too numb to realize how big a trouble loosing these documents can be...

anyways.. am still in the comfortably numb state of mind more or less.. at times questioning the reason behind the kind of daily life we lead, at times being thankful for the routine itself!
was upset at one time about not being able to travel for a long while, and yet thankful for the same too!! (its been a month since i stepped out of delhi!!!! unheard of for a long long while)

maybe travel is what keeps these feelings of boredom with routine at bay...
but it cant be the reason to do what you do... or can it?

as i said before - comfortably numb... thats all there is to this...

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