The Feel Good Place

 I have a picture of this some 2 years old girl, wearing an over sized jacket, standing on a chair, in middle of a bridge, with the magnificent Macchapuchrre mountain in the background. My mother finds that picture to be very cute. I can’t really say about the girl but I find that place to be extremely beautiful. And even after so many years and many uncountable visits, and numerous pictures taken with the same darling Machhapuchre on the backdrop, the place still feels anew and refreshing to me.

Pokhara, is a kind of a place which can never bore you.  And it is the combination that I love, bestowed with so much beauty from the nature and the cool, fun atmosphere; where else in Nepal can you find that ??  Even when you are not in your brightest moods, a walk round the Fewa lake can refresh, worst of the moods swings.

This is a place, where I have various memories, of people I love, and respect, of friends and family. From celebrating friend’s birthday, dancing the night out, singing out loud in the wee hours of the night in the open streets, cutting one’s birthday cake, meditating inside the cave, getting totally wet in the rain, cycling, boating, hiking, and things more special than all of this, Pokhara has given me memories to cherish for life.  And no matter how many times I come here, it  feels as much beautiful as well as different. Walking on the streets of the Lakeside, on the late hours of evening, is a fun thing to do, no matter how many times you’ve done it…even if there is nothing new left to see, or no shop left where you haven’t window shopped. The feel, the ambiance of the place, is just so amazing. I always wonder how can this place be so happening and full of life, but  yet peaceful. 

Yes, it has got a little crowded over all these years, and at times you wish there were not as many people around, in the beautiful natural surrounding that you are at. And I might be just over- saying the good things about this place that I love. But, there is something about this place, something amazing probably indescribable, it just makes you feel good. I wonder if people who actually live here also experience the “feel good” thing. But I certainly do. Even when am occupied with work throughout the time that am here and can’t really go around visiting places, just sipping the morning tea with Fewa taal in the view feels to be a great privilege. Fewa with its vastness can never bore you, its kind of a thing of which you can never have enough of.

  There are so many things that have been done here and yet there is so much more to do, so many more places to visit and experience. Whenever, I come here, I feel like I have gained something new. This is a place which has given me love, and also a place which has helped me heal. I have felt the beauty of it, smiled with it, experienced it closely, but yet there so much more to do, more to feel.  And though I have been there uncountable times, I would go back to this place again, and again and again and again, (and again………..) and experience Pokhara again and just feel good.