We, the babes, ( look at the audacity of calling ourselves that) just got back from our trip this monday and
we had a really awesome trip.
Keep guessing the location, that we went to, which I plan to
reveal shortly. ( just to keep you all, my readers wondering!!)
But before I put together the experiences of the wandering
souls, I wanted to tell you all why it is important for the girls to getaway in
the first place.
- Bonding – Not that we
girls need to get away someplace to do this, but when you live
together for few days, there is an intimacy that we get to experience
which beats every other short get together's. We get to know
the sleep cycles, fitness schedules – didn’t help coz we never even gave
fitness a thought during the holidays, eating habits, bargaining skills,
technical capabilities with gadgets, posing skills, organizing abilities
and why, we even know each other’s weird potty behaviors and menstrual
cycles. Over all these, we really bonded over small talk, deep
conversations and mindless prattles.
- Laugh for no reason –
Each of us have varying range of laughter – the loud gurgling
laughter that is mine, Sudha’s Guffaw, Rosy’s belly laughter and the
modest of all, Jay’s chuckle. We can see something together and
laugh heartily in our own special ways, and you see laughter is the best
medicine.
- Get away from real life
for a short while – All the 4 of us play different roles in our personal
and professional lives like every other woman around the world and its our
second nature to multitask and play these roles to a T. There are
also times these roles overwhelm us and we may not even show it out to the
others including family. The Girls trip is a perfect getaway to
forget all our roles briefly and just hang out with the soul sisters just
to rejuvenate each other in order to get back to reality and live it all
up to the expectations of the loved ones.
- Do mindless stuff
- Yes Yes Yes. This is the perfect opportunity for us mothers
not to worry about being role models to our little ones and big ones, and
do stuff which suits our whims. Like for example, taking pictures,
plonking on the middle of the road. Having a conversation over a
bottle of homemade brew of wine, or just laugh our heart out listening to
stories.
- Understand how much we
mean to each other - yeah we know, we mean a lot to each
other. But there are moments in a trip, which will make this
evident and the love shines through. Like for example, when we
met Rosy at the airport we were jumping in a huddle, screaming our heads
off, our guide was kind of taken aback. Nyugen our guide had a few
intimate questions to us after she saw us do that. There are also
incidents which showcased our love for each other and I will let the girls
do separate blogs on this.
- The girls are worth it –
for all the hard work we put round the clock all around the year at our
workplaces and at our homes, we deserve this break and we need to do this
at least every year, if not more frequently. The memories we create are a
little gift to ourselves and fuels us to go through life unabated, and
keeps us looking forward to the next one to come.
- Feel empowered – When
you prove to yourself that you are capable of some new learning and new
ways of working things out, empowerment is on its way. Travelling
with a bunch of girls and doing it in a poised way, gaining knowledge
about other cultures, going around this universe makes you realize, how
small and insignificant one is. And that is empowerment in itself.
While the girls getaways are common, we still have people around us who
cannot do it for various reasons, and there also ones who can do it and
the simple verdict is travel, and especially travelling with girl gangs
makes you feel empowered. Just the sheer act of surviving a new
place, new culture around unknown country men gives that empowerment.
- Enjoy the nature -
Ah, how I can I ever explain this. Nature is intrinsically
adorable and there is mother nature who will surprise you venerably
with her astoundingly vibrant beauty. The more you enjoy
nature the more you want to be one with her. Atleast this
time, the girls were mesmerized by the voluptuous natural beauty of the
location we chose, offered us and we are still in a daze. Good
enough reason to get away with girls.
- Talk about absolutely
anything and anyone – Uninhibitedly chatter away about work place
friends, our children, our other friends, our spouses, our dreams, our
fears and this list is endless.
- Root for each other –
The best of the things that happens in a girls trip is how we highlight
the positives of each person, from our physical appearance to our talents,
our interests in life, accomplishments, our cooking, organizing, tactical
abilities in every conversations that we have. It could simply be how well someone can
pose for a stunning photograph at the right angle to highlight the right
curvatures or probably the ability to manage all the photographs in a
cloud platform, without making a hefty payment for storage 😊
So, my
question remains.
Which location
do you think we chose this time.
Post
script :
For the first
timers here, we, the group of 4 ladies, who call ourselves, babes, purely because
we are narcissistic, went earlier to Banglok in the year 2017 and then to Bali
in 2018.
