finally sinking in...

“Geography is such an interesting subject”, she thought. Although it sounds quite boring when Ma’am reads it out from the school textbook. The maps seem dry and lifeless, little black lines drawn on poor quality paper. No fun at all. On the other hand, when you watch Lonely Planet on Discovery, its a whole new ball game. Even their maps are better, the squiggly lines actually move and trace the path of the adventurers. She liked calling them that- adventurers, gave a romantic touch to traveling.
School was over for the rest of the day and she was sitting in her room doing her geography homework. She brought out the atlas her father had presented to her and checked out Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and other such regions of the South-East. These places are ‘real’ she told herself. These lines on the map actually are landmasses full of people. People working in farms, fields, going to offices, schools, building schools, fighting, quarrelling, laughing, sleeping (with each other, she sheepishly added). And they are all present on the same planet. I share my planet with them.
And as she allowed her thoughts to just meander through her mind, little did she know, she would be lucky to visit some of these places one day!