Remembering the flight to Frankfurt...
travelling alone ... I was really looking forward to the journey... for me flights are like "No man's land" in time... no rules applicable on meandering thoughts!

however suddenly i realized that the person sitting next to me was asking a question...bit half-heartedly yet wanting to be polite , i tried to understand what is being said to me ..

"Have you travelled to Finland?" I was definitely intrigued ..did not see such a question coming ..I have never been to Finland and honestly had never thought of travelling prior to that day...

I said "No" ...his the answer was even more intriguing that the initial question "Who travels to Finland, except me"

My fellow passenger was a software guy with NOKIA- young, very thin and tall ...his legs were barely contained in the seating space...and were fidgeting continuously...anxious almost to find out who all travel to Finland..

I said I am travelling to Frankfurt for a conference for 5 days ...he asked if my visa was for five days ...i said yes..."lucky you, my visa for Finland expires in 12 days , do you think it will get extended" i was bit taken aback and was not sure of the appropriate answer...so just waited for his next thought...

"I am getting married if my visa gets extended, I will miss my wedding"

suddenly the entire context came flooding in....i remembered the narrow time windows we have faced ....and my wishes went out to him.... i hoped that the authorities find some technical error for not extending the visa..

so is the life of today's professionals in India - a life we cannot live without, yet sometime we have no clue about it !!!

I hope wherever he is ...he is happily married :) and someday i can visit FINLAND...a land which made wedding look nearly impossible ...

picture by me, Imagining Finland, photograph taken Ness, Scotland