When Time Slowed Down for a Day♥️.

       Hello, first of all, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas🎄, as I'm writing this at 12 a.m.

Today I’m going to talk about what happened two days back. So my school best friend and I have known each other since class 11. During our first year, we went for a proper outing. After that, very rarely did we get to meet each other, as our ways were different. Living on the next street, yet we meet only twice or thrice in a year. That too would go as a chit-chat and yummy food session, but not really a proper outing.

But for the last six months, despite chaos, we get to meet often, as we are travelling on the same path. So finally, after such a gap, we planned an outing. It’s not as you think, like Pondicherry or Kerala. But to Egmore, and that itself is a win for us 😁.

Let me try to pen our one-day experience in Valluvar Kottam and Egmore Museum.

    

The same us

The same energy

The same laughter 

On our way to

Valluvar Kottam

Really?

Firstly, to visit the movie set

Then to see the Kottam

Two hours of time travel

Into the 60s world

Without any expense,

But returned with

Endless memories,

Endless jokes,

Endless moments,

With limited phone storage.


Pottery uncle there said,

Few things can’t be relived again,

So use the chances.

He was right

In life

And friendship as well.


Then,

We were mesmerized,

Witnessing

The monument,

The Valluvar statue,

The stone-built ther/chariot,

Engraved with athigarams (verses),

And the reception of people

Towards the legend,

And his contribution.


Then what?

No rest for either mouth or legs,

Talking and walking

Till the next destination.

Awestruck for a moment,

Not because of pain,

But after the vision of the museum.

Time seemed to pause within those walls.

Red buildings

Transported us into artifacts,

Captured by rich bibliosmia.

We were flies,

Buzzing around

In the calm silence.


In between all this-

fascination and happy smiles,

People at the platform

Made me feel sad

And realised the

'Privileges', 

And the 'right moment'

We are blessed with.

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