{"id":516,"date":"2016-06-03T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.wordpress.com\/?p=516"},"modified":"2016-06-03T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:07:40","slug":"something-daring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Something Daring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Its funny that my 100th post should be about the prompt \u00a0Adventure<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

I am not this physically active type. Not an athlete and extremely out of shape. So if there is a tremendous trek involved in any journey I would think a lot. That too when I was under seizure meds, I altogether avoided travelling anywhere.<\/p>\n

But then not all adventures need to involve a travel or physically exhausting experience. For me a recent adventure was to board a bus in order to go to a friend’s place. She lived a good 20 km away from my place. I didn’t want to spend a lot on cab. So I took a share auto to reach the nearest bus stop. When the bus came I saw that it was way too crowded and didn’t step in. But it was getting hotter by the minute and I had to get to her place for lunch. So I got into the next bus after a wait of 20 minutes. Finding a seat by the window I sat down and asked the conductor to inform me when I arrive at my destination.<\/p>\n

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I have been scared to board another bus again in my life. I have been molested enough on buses to come back home and collapse from crying. Although I was spending half my salary on taxi fares, I preferred them over emotionally exhausting public transports. Now I am no daring heroine from Indian cinema who would slap or raise her voice against her molester. The only thing a person like me could do is stand as far away as possible from that guy and hope he will leave me alone.<\/p>\n

When I got off the bus and walked to my friend’s place I felt like I had achieved something so big that I almost cried from the happiness. Its not a big deal for many of you. But for me, that 45 min bus journey proved that I can somehow get over my fears and live my life happily.<\/p>\n

One need not jump off a cliff or walk into the forest to feel the adrenaline rush. Sometimes overcoming your own anxiety is the real adventure everyone has to take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Its funny that my 100th post should be about the prompt \u00a0Adventure\u00a0. I am not this physically active type. Not an athlete and extremely out of shape. So if there is a tremendous trek involved in any journey I would think a lot. That too when I was under seizure meds, I altogether avoided travelling…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,250,251,745,1002],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inner-musings","tag-adventure","tag-daily-post","tag-daily-prompt","tag-prompt","tag-weekly"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":13,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aratrikaspeaks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}