sunday in the park with the family
I was away in London and Paris with my family for 4 days last week.
It was an impromtu decision of a sort for the whole family to fly into London and meet up with my dad who was flying in from New York.
And since it coincided with the school holidays, we just seized this rare moment when all of us are together, booked our flight tickets, packed our bags and jet off to London last Saturday.
I must admit that the days running up to the holidays were pretty nerve-racking; searching for the lowest-priced Eurostar tickets to Paris, digesting the extensive travel guides to London and Paris, drawing up impossibly packed itineraries to satisfy the whims of every member of my family and planning another equally thorough backup intinerary.
And even though these things are not exactly rocket science, they were by no means easy to complete - especially if it fell only on one individual to do it.
But presevere we did and I am glad that everything turned out relatively well and went smoothly during the whole trip.
I think the one thing that struck me about this particular trip was how it was a learning experience for all of us - learning how to adapt and adjust to life abroad with its fair share of restrictions, nuances and idiosyncracies, learning how to strech yourself to the limit when the burden of responsibility fell upon your shoulders, learning to compromise and make peace with delays, mistakes and unforeseen circumstances, learning how to convincingly lead others and to not isolate them.
At this point, one is forgiven to wonder - with all the lessons mentioned above - whether this trip is a 'lawatan sambil belajar' with clearly defined goals or simply another carefree family outing.
I would like to think that it was a bit of both; it was a chance for all of us to hang out and come together as a family and experience new experiences abroad. But the trip also gave us an opportunity to reflect and attain some kind of a world view of the things around us.
That said, the greatest things one could bring back from such trips are all-embracing, internationalized mindset and a broader expectations of the world besides the warm memories of a time well spent with each other that will remain etched in our minds forever.
I mean, there's no better way to understand and put into visible perspective the cocoon we've been living in than to come out of it and see it with your own eyes.
On a personal note, it is indeed heartwarming for me to be able to show to my family the sights, the sounds and the smells of the places I roamed, sauntered and been to almost every day in London.
I mean, at least now they have an idea of how it feels like for me whenever I passed through the international departure gates at KLIA.
After all, isn't an experience shared an experience gained?
Coupled that with the ones you love and it becomes truly priceless.
It was an impromtu decision of a sort for the whole family to fly into London and meet up with my dad who was flying in from New York.And since it coincided with the school holidays, we just seized this rare moment when all of us are together, booked our flight tickets, packed our bags and jet off to London last Saturday.
I must admit that the days running up to the holidays were pretty nerve-racking; searching for the lowest-priced Eurostar tickets to Paris, digesting the extensive travel guides to London and Paris, drawing up impossibly packed itineraries to satisfy the whims of every member of my family and planning another equally thorough backup intinerary.
And even though these things are not exactly rocket science, they were by no means easy to complete - especially if it fell only on one individual to do it.
But presevere we did and I am glad that everything turned out relatively well and went smoothly during the whole trip.
I think the one thing that struck me about this particular trip was how it was a learning experience for all of us - learning how to adapt and adjust to life abroad with its fair share of restrictions, nuances and idiosyncracies, learning how to strech yourself to the limit when the burden of responsibility fell upon your shoulders, learning to compromise and make peace with delays, mistakes and unforeseen circumstances, learning how to convincingly lead others and to not isolate them.
At this point, one is forgiven to wonder - with all the lessons mentioned above - whether this trip is a 'lawatan sambil belajar' with clearly defined goals or simply another carefree family outing.
I would like to think that it was a bit of both; it was a chance for all of us to hang out and come together as a family and experience new experiences abroad. But the trip also gave us an opportunity to reflect and attain some kind of a world view of the things around us.
That said, the greatest things one could bring back from such trips are all-embracing, internationalized mindset and a broader expectations of the world besides the warm memories of a time well spent with each other that will remain etched in our minds forever.
I mean, there's no better way to understand and put into visible perspective the cocoon we've been living in than to come out of it and see it with your own eyes.
On a personal note, it is indeed heartwarming for me to be able to show to my family the sights, the sounds and the smells of the places I roamed, sauntered and been to almost every day in London.
I mean, at least now they have an idea of how it feels like for me whenever I passed through the international departure gates at KLIA.
After all, isn't an experience shared an experience gained?
Coupled that with the ones you love and it becomes truly priceless.
posted by wanaimran at
4:33 AM
2 Comments:
Greetings WMA,
"If any of you loves someone, let you tell him that " sayings of Prophet (p.b.u.h).
You have just express your feelings of good will to each other by being and spending time together. Not forgetting the strengthening of family bonding.
No money, diamonds, gold, in the world can buy the time spent. Like you said, it is priceless. But, maybe black gold can....
No, no, just kidding! Definitely, its priceless. Period.
Ayah baru baca blogspot aimran ini..same sentiments bagi ayah..even though the burden of planning all these felled on u..it was brilliantly done..thank you very2 much..those priceless moments will be treasured by me always and forever..
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