The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul...

We all have desires, some small and some big, and for me, I have way too many! Ocassionally I am humble, but my real self comes retorting and things are back to where they were! To me, desire is the juice of life. It courses through you like a river, carving its way through the soil of your psyche. While I wait in the Arrivals area of London Heathrow, I am writing this today as one of my long longed for desire is coming true! Mum and Dad - the avid travellers, they took us for nice holidays more often than not.  It was almost every summer holidays that we visited some amazing part of India and the few others to the grand parents. It wasn't until I stepped into IT, that I thought visiting a foreign country was possible for people like us. It was around the same time that the craze loomed in the upper middle class part of the Indian society to visit the Far East countries for holiday  and the filthy rich one's to the Europe! To us it was still a distant dream! We decided to make our honeymoon a special one and hence decided to travel to a foreign land. Though the realization of that desire robbed us of all our savings at that juncture, and so yeah, in more than just one way, our honeymoon was indeed a special one! It was then, that a new desire crept in my heart! I wanted to gift my parents their first abroad travel! I offered them a trip to one of the far-east countires as there annniversary present, but they politely refused. It is very typical of parents in India to refuse any expensive form of gift from their daughters. The day I stepped in England and was awe-inspired by its beauty, I decided that this is country they will visit soon. I knew my desire is going to be fulfilled soon. It took much longer than I expected, but it has finally happened!  They are making there first abroad travel and moreover to the country my Dad always admired! Being a History student, he has the thirst to see and abrorb the beauty of this historic country. I have carefully planned each day of there stay in this country and want to make this a memorable experience for them! I longed for all this and much more, in some corner of my tired heart....