Travel Diaries
The purpose of our lives is to be happy — Dalai Lama That’s why I’m Ever Smiling. Now let me narrate One of my TravelDairy pages… Me having traveled extensively over the years, I’ve sat next to all kinds of people. But, by far my most interesting encounter was with a 10-year-old girl, who sat next to me on a 3-hour flight from Coimbatore to Delhi in 2018. She was traveling with her parents; apparently, there’d been an issue with their tickets, and they were forced to sit separately — her mom and dad sat somewhere at the back of the plane, and the little girl sat next to me upfront. I didn’t notice her at first; the moment the plane lifted, and leveled off, I dug out my laptop and started to edit some pictures to upload it in social media. After about 20 mins, I felt a tap on my arm and turned to her. She said: “Hello” I replied: “Hello”. “What are you doing?” I was taken aback at first, but I smiled and replied: “J...