Anticipation

Have you ever wondered how you feel meeting someone you've never met before, eating something you've never eaten before, or going to visit a place you've never seen? That feeling is right now sitting in the pit of my stomach and raising all sorts of emotions.

Tomorrow will be my first visit to San Diego, the beach city I've heard about so much. I've heard about the beauty of its beaches and the effervescent adulation about its great weather. And more than that, I've heard about its Gas Lamp district.

Not seeing something before creates a rise in expectation. Often, some places are able to meet those expectations. That creates a desire to go back to that place again, and repeat the experience. I hope San Diego turns out to be the same, a place I'd want to repeatedly go back to.

Separate from the San Diego visit, another experience I'm looking forward to is the cruise on a ship I'm going to take from San Diego. I've never been on a ship until now. In India, I'd been on ferries on the Brahmaputra (the only male river in India, they say) while crossing from one ghat to the other. Then, in Goa, a great tourist destination, I'd been on a motor boat from Anjuna beach to Baga beach. And there had been scattered instances of being on a raft during a flash flood in Dibrugarh , or on a row boat while crossing the Ganges at Rishikesh.

How ould it be to be in a 10-story ship, with thousands of people? And how would it feel to be in the ocean, with water only all around, and no land. Fo someone who had never seen the sea for the majority of her life, it is amazing that I am now surrounded by ocean, and make excursions like these off and on. Earlier it was all land, now it is all water. What an irony! But I like the variety that life has to offer. It enrishes me.