My 40th
This time it took a lot! A lot of time to decide, a lot of courage to muster and a lot of coaxing myself to embark on a solo trip. Might sound silly but what's life without meaningful rituals that you create for yourself? 30th in Hongkong, Cheung Chau Island on the South China Sea, to be precise. 35th at South China Sea again at An Bang Beach in Hoi An, Vietnam. So this year I decided on Muscat on the Sea of Oman to spend my 40th. It took 3 months of planning and methodical step-wise execution because I had forgotten what travelling alone feels like! There was a point in time around end of December, when I started dreading the trip and enumerating everything that can go wrong...almost building up a case against travelling solo. But then I identified that it was just anxiety and by the time it was mid-January I felt elated thinking about the upcoming trip and was excited to research videos online to build the framework of an itinerary. Life continuously threw challenges at me...