When you move to a different place you are given a chance to start a new life, give yourself a new personality and reinvent yourself. Speaks my mentor at work. I nod.
What do you do if you come across as the same old person you were in the old place? I ask him.
It means you are not new anymore in the new place. And old habits die hard. He tells me.
Damn! Am I stuck to being an over-cautious, easily-scared, fussing over “what will he/she think” type of person for the rest of my life! Worse still, I needed to travel more than 12,000 miles to this snow field just to know this! Ridiculous. I mean absolute waste of everything.
Anyways, all is not lost. On our trip to Disneyland, I was tricked into riding a roller-coaster* and I not only survived to tell the tale but also timidly rode a couple of mini roller-coasters. My folks who gave up trying to convince me to do something adventurous will rejoice in my achievement.
*For people who are wondering how can somebody be tricked into riding a roller-coaster- I was not drunk. This monster was hidden in a big building with a fancy name – not revealing what it actually was! And the lovely people who knew it feigned ignorance. Not spoiling the actual details of the ride for anybody who may end up visiting Disneyland.
3 comments:
Old habits die hard :) because they want to test our determination.
And ,dare I say , that you actually njoyed all those scary rides :D
Not bad you got on the roller coaster. I remember the fun time we had with getting you on the Giant wheel in Hyd
Sounds fun! Cured of the fear of roller-coasters ?
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