New Year's Day Like Never Before

Since I belong to a category that finds in the antonym of party animal, usually New Year's Eve & the Day are lived in solitude and wishing friends over social media and messengers. Year End 2015 was a welcoming change, as I had decided to spend time and catching up with one of my school friend. During my grades seven to nine, he was the only friend with whom I have loathed around and spent the maximum of my time with. 

Fortunately, we have been in touch with each other all through these years, although we haven't met for the past ten years or more. 

Come New Year's Eve and I arrived at his place and his current buddy was as surprised as we were about being in touch with someone for ten years although not having met each other. Now, that's what we do with whom we care for and value to remain in our lives for rest of the years. We had proved time & distance has significance in the way friendships evolve between friends. :) :)

The usual planner & executionist me, decided to be laid back about any decisions for the next two days. My friend took me to a hill nearby and we decided to trek. The hill has two spots, one a temple, where it is believed Lord Muruga, the fire born of Lord Shiva married Valli, the daughter of tribe of Nambirajan. My friend was narrating me stories of the event of the marriage. I was able to recollect my nostalgia of the dance drama where I was part of the cast crew back in the same school we studied. 

Next to the temple, there's a path less taken and less unkown to the hill top where there's an ashram and the peak of the rock hill. Walking barefoot (typically unusual of me), all the way up the hill, wading through flora & fauna (only monkeys visible) of the forest. Never have I ever believed in my life that I might wander through a forest and climb a hill top laden with rocks. 

Trust me, there's no better feeling than proving yourself wrong by doing things that you've always feared to do. It was totally different experience doing all this. 

On our way back, we waded through an agricultural land and I felt the tenderness of the fresh grass that will soon be ripe and reaped with paddy to feed a thousand hungry stomachs. The grass was so soft that even the new born baby would be hard on a comparision, such was the tenderness of the grass. A feeling, I've never ever had before. 

To sum it, it's been a New Year's Day, Like Never Before; but would love the thought of having it again.