My best travel story goes back to our before lockdown days when we were in Krabi for our annual holiday. Sounds like an annual ritual. Isn’t it? We got back and for days I walked like a penguin with both my legs and my hands spread apart. The reason, I went kayaking with my family in Krabi. Normally I don’t participate in such silly activities but since the whole family was going, I too got excited. Didn’t realize, the DOMS the next day would be so bad that I would be walking, sitting, getting up, and even craping like a pregnant woman. In fact, on the first day, except for my face, everything hurts badly. I was so stiff that I actually must have looked like a walking mannequin on the roads. I, in fact, applaud my courage to walk back to the hotel in that condition. Imagine, what if my family had to carry me back. How would have we looked? My Miyan holding me by my upper body and my son holding my legs. Both of them carrying me with their right hands. Something like how you see a store’s staff carrying the mannequins.
Coming back to the point. Being unfit or having a bump is not always bad. The whole of my journey back home, I got very special treatment. Right from the hotel staff to the airline staff, everybody treated me with utmost care and love. They all assumed that I was pregnant and probably in my second trimester. Hence, did a gateway walk. The cabby offered to hold my bag, held my hand, and helped me inside the cab. I am visualizing what if the poor guy had to push me inside. I was so stiff. The hotel staff bid me goodbye and wished me good luck. One of their girls even complimented me for my glow, which in my opinion was my TAN. Maybe I looked like a ‘glowing eggplant’ to her. The ground staff offered a wheelchair at the airport and the air hostess an extra pillow and some lime juice, just in case, I felt puckish. Overall, not a bad outcome of having a bump even after nineteen years of my having delivered a child. Of not having exercised ever in spite of my parents telling me for my whole life. Of never eaten anything healthy. Of course, this simply means that I am physically unfit and that I most definitely am.
Now, the moral of the story. Either get for an exercise regime NOW or don’t get carried away into these mad sports even if your whole family does. When I think now, staying back would have been a better option.
However, even if you do, then keep these activities for your last day so that your whole holiday doesn’t go for a toss and you enjoy those extra perks way back home. Like I did.
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Somali Bammi
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