Don't you hanker for a break from it all?

You need to get away - from yourself (no kidding). Just unbutton your skin and step out of yourself and escape into the outer world, even if its only for a day or even an hour!

More often than not, it's our own thoughts and perceptions that drive us crazy.  So get away from them - and don't worry about what you think of  you. 

Don't be you. Be some one else, someone new, someone you dont know, someone who will be coloured in time. 

Make that trip and dont forget to leave behind that streak in you that thinks too much. 

Life is much more fun when you live it - without terms and conditions.

Go native

All the places you've dreamt of visiting, when you finally get there - would you choose to stand apart and look on - or go native and be a part of the scene? I've done both - and the latter is infinitely more satisfying!
It was Bali - so warm and welcoming, so peaceful and happy that lured me to go native! So my attire was the local lungi and the brightly coloured shirt - and like the native Hindus - my bindi was made of grains of rice.
Oooh I was Balinese now - and wanted to do all thing Bali. I was on the sea shoe at dawn watching the people surfing. not the western tourists with their upmarket boards - but the Balinese with roughly hewn planks and flat coconut branches! Some were good - others were learning. But they all were having fun!
"Come come, we will teach you", they invited. Tempted as I was, I declined - cursing myself for not taking my swimming classes more seriously.
I promised myself that Iwould be proficient enough to enjoy the seas when I travelled next. A notion only made stronger by Zindagi na milegi dobara! Not that I would sky dive or even worse - participate in a bull run! Not quite as bull headed - as yet!