The story of a “Happening” life!

In the middle of some conversation that I was having with one of my friends, she said “Why don’t you ask your husband to relocate to Delhi, your life will be much more happening there!” Is it?? I wondered!

Fortunately I have stayed in many cities across the country and I have visited many countries outside India as well, so I have a decent level of understanding as to how different cultures are, and how things work in places other than my own hometown. Visiting any place for a week or two for tourism is one aspect of any city and working or studying there and following a daily routine there is another aspect of it. When do we call a city or our lives “happening”? As per the modern mans dictionary I suppose it’s when you slog like a donkey in your weekdays but your weekends are all about dance and booze! When you cook lunch and dinners on the weekdays at your own house, but your weekends are full of pizzas and other junk! Or maybe when weekdays are all about routine and boring work and buying vegetables, and your weekends are all about hanging out with friends to relieve all the stress you piled up for the whole week! But how about me! I mean my husband being a medico doesn’t even have a WEEKEND! Its work for him every damn day ! Is my life over ?? Will I live everyday like a weekday?? Will I never have a “Happening” life??

Living only on the weekends isn’t actually living a happening life! Living life in a city with more number of pubs and night hangouts doesn’t define what life you are living either, and neither does the fact that for how many days you visit a pizza store or a disc in a month.

Being completely with the person you are with, making memories in which ever circumstances you are, and living life each day and not just on the weekends is what actually makes your life happening! You see you can’t rely on pubs, pizzas, the city you are in or on the fact that weather the DJ plays the right track for the party or not to make your life happening! You have to make things happen for a “happening life!” ;)

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