Sunaina Serna Ahluwalia

Starting the walk and looking forward to the beautiful sights and sounds Thich Nhat Han once famously said, “Let your walk be your meditation.” and I couldn’t agree more. I have always been a ‘walker’ and for the last 6 years, have walked a minimum of 10 thousand steps every day. There has however, been one exception, the time that I underwent a major surgery last September and wasn’t able to do my 10 k steps for about 2 weeks.

It all began with the phone clock not being adjusted to the new time zone. And turned into a delightfully memorable early morning walk in Paris. On our first morning in Paris some time back, I had set the alarm for 6  AM as we were planning a day trip to Versailles. As it happened, the alarm rang and call it years of discipline,  I promptly woke up, had my tea and a quick shower. Jacques dividing the dough and getting ready to pop the baguettes into the oven.

Ever since people began to communicate with each other, “Tell me a story” has been a request of both children and adults. For there is something absolutely fascinating about sitting around and listening to words which come out of someone else’s mouth and trying to put picture associations to those same words.