Nilgiri

A walk to inner fears.

Devika Dileep
3 min readSep 24, 2023

Travel journal

This is a story. Story of a beautiful journey ,That ended with a lot of memories , which made a lot of transitions among five girls. I know sometimes it does not even make a sense to you. you may wonder about what's the big deal in it. but , this is the story of a self made trip which gave me disastrous realizations.

it was a random day , we discussed about going somewhere during our holidays. there were 5 among us. me , mufe , sneha , sooph and ju a space which i can describe as “my own”. It was a girls trip. random suggestions came for destinations and I was completely sure that this trip is not goanna happen, so I also gave random suggestions like Ooty, Kodai and all, the families of us are really strict and I was damn sure they are not goanna give us permission. like drawing random lines on water, I was pretty sure that these all are a waste of time. the suggestion of going to Ooty got accepted by the majority and we decided to go there.

then we all started planning ,where to stay how to travel and so on, it was fun to make plans that never goanna happen I thought,

and the plan was like this. we have a train at evening from Shornur to Coimbatore. catch that, reaching Coimbatore at night. getting bus from Coimbatore to Ooty , reaching Ooty, staying 2 days at Ooty and return. perfect plan. Things went wrong when Mufee booked the return tickets for all of us. Then , i got sure that something is gonna happen. I am zen percent sure that my parents will kill me when the got known about this plan. five girls ,alone at night! straight to Ooty, thought of telling the truth to them fear strucked me. But the thought of having a journey with my most comfortable non judging company, without any fears, any restrictions gave me courage. I was sure I will not get this exposure for my life time and I know that this will be a life changing event in all senses, whatever goanna to happen. I decided to go without telling my parents. most of us were like that. me and Mufee was in hostel, Sneha in Trivandrum ,Ju go for iv during the entire trip.

it seems to be funny, but it was a bit hard for me. to tell lie , but I need experiences , I need a change , I need a better me. next money came to be a matter. we decided to go with what we have,

the day came. it was the last day of our exam , all of us were thrilled highly excited, fear was also there and we completed the exam as soon as possible and headed straight to railway station. it was a memu train we catched , the train was mostly empty not much rush , my heartbeat started to increase slightly because of the realization of it is going to happen. the train started to move slowly…. there came green fields, rivers, people ,empty grounds . we reached coimbatore at about 6 o clock.

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Devika Dileep
Devika Dileep

Written by Devika Dileep

You are a seeker, an adventurer in your mind. Interested in the power of the woman, in a womans deep strength and creativity. becoming this women.

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