Last few days in Dehra- An Ode to the city

The last time I wrote a blog post was on my first visit to Dehradun. My post gives a good enough idea on how much attached I am to this place. Now comes the climax to my wonderful stay here in this place.

But first, let me rewind few events over the past year or more. After staying in Dehradun for eight months, we were called back to Shimla. Again a city I had earlier written about. But this time, I had experienced Dehradun and my heart was already longing to go back. After staying for over two months at Shimla and in between having an intensive Himalayan Darshan (which deserves another blog post), we got our place of posting. And thanks to the Supreme Being listening to my prayers, I got the opportunity to come back to Dehradun.

And now I come back to the city which is dearer to me than my own home. The same room with the same view. I wake up to the chirping of birds in the morning, sit in the balcony and let the breeze calm me down, or listen to drizzle as and when it pours.

This place has always been amazing but this time I owe a lot to it. This is the first place where I initiated my footsteps as an officer. This is the place wherein I learnt to be happy sitting in a single room studying for four months continuously. This is the place which makes me smile by just standing every morning in the balcony and seeing all the lush green trees around me. For four months from September to December, all I had for company was a room and the view of mountains and forests from it. This place made me contemplate my life choices and what happiness meant to me. Even today, it made me think whether I actually want to leave this place. Words will never be enough to describe my gratitude for this place.

This blog post is an ode to this place, which has taught me the meaning of love. And I will always carry it in my heart, remembering it during good and bad times, the values it taught me. My journey in this place might end in two weeks, but my ardent hope of coming back to Dehradun will always be present.