Fluid Verve

Pause, Look Back

More the life accelerates, more I enjoy pausing it. Not that I don’t like the fast paced life, on the contrary I quite enjoy the thrill of being on the speedway. But, I refuse to be pushed around in the mad rush. I prefer hopping in and out of it at my own will. I need my time out right when I want it, my time to stare out of the window and do nothing. Except, perhaps sip a cup of coffee like I am doing right now while sitting in this café near my office. I’ve been lazing around for more than an hour now but I still don’t feel like going back to work. The view of the park and the busy market is not what I am seeing. I am looking through this window into the memories of sitting at the window seat at Gesmo Restaurant in Leh and feasting on Pasta, Pizza Margherita, and Momos. What scrumptious food you get there! Not to forget the Watermelon juice which you never get there but is still publicized as the day’s special! There wasn’t a single time that I visited Gesmo and didn’t trouble the server Kumar Thapa, asking him to either bring the proclaimed nectar or erase its name from the chalkboard announcing the day’s specials. Every time he would come up with an innovative excuse, perhaps he was clever enough to know that I used to kid him just to kill time. Upon my last visit he came up to our table and before even presenting the menu he told me that he had specially brought Watermelons for me from a distant market but they were all rotten by then as I didn’t drop by for so many days! Well! That was some good humored time in Leh and I am missing it badly.