The Moment

"I am pretty sure Google Maps led us here mentioning this cafe which serves great coffee and now we are at the same junction that we crossed an hour ago, and I am famished," stopping midway, I confessed, annoyed.

It had been two hours since we were looking for a place to relax, suggested by Google, in this unknown city where we were for our escape from our mundane routine.

The junction was quiet with one or two people around us. We squatted on a deserted beach nearby. He brought two sandwiches and two cups of coffee from a vendor in sight and watched me anxiously sipping my coffee.

"Well, where do we proceed now?", I asked gulping my sandwich hurriedly.

"What's wrong with this place?", he enquired.

"We had really wanted to visit that cafe if you remember."

"And we have been getting uselessly laborious and stressed to find it for the past two hours which nullifies our motive to relax in this city. We are here to escape our paced routine. What is the point if we end up running to catch our breaths just to find a place again?", he said, relaxed.

I looked around. It was a peaceful place. We were relishing our taste buds, there wasn't any crowd and we were in no hurry on that beautiful winter night with dazzling yellow and white lights above the only tree behind us, a building with old lighted neon sign and music from somewhere afar.

The light breeze created patterns of waves from the aromatic vapors arising from our coffee cups as if conveying a secret message, while swaying the branches of the tree, making lights shimmer through the shade.

It was exactly the place I would have wanted to be in. Yet it took a moment to find it.

I realized that is precisely how technology hinders our judgment of our own desires. We want something, we hit the Search button and end up with seemingly infinite results and we rely on them, rather we get swayed away with them, believing that this is what we really want overshadowing the actual imagination painted in our minds and it always ruins the possibilities of getting out in the unknown and finding the unique traces that we as humans can live up to.

Perhaps, that is the case with everything these days, living in a race running for the rose-tinted glasses the world provides us with and then forgetting our real desires.

As children, we had our individually unique imaginations and we lived to add more to them being unaffected by our experiences. But then we grew up.

"So how do we find this place tomorrow? I don't think we will land up here by chance again", I joked as we got up to leave after spending what seemed like an eternity there.

"Let's count on coming across another one for tomorrow then", he laughed.