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Why travel to meet friends & family?

A deep topic for me. I've been pondering about this. This came in one of the lunch table discussions with my colleagues. One asked about the right vacation choice, where he had an option to stay back at his rented home near work or accompany the family to in-laws place near his hometown. Another person whom with I'd a chat himself was indicating that he has started visiting home often these days & he feels happy. Realized that I'd started written this post & kept it in the draft!

Why do we travel to meet one in person? 

Every single time I've thought about it. It reminds me of the visual I'd when I was waiting near the causality of Calicut Medical College when one of our dear friends passed away & the doctor crew was trying hard to pump up the heart! I could also imagine how my distant relative's brother passed away & he was carrying his body asking if someone could wake him up!

The breath is really valuable! There are times when you wish if someone would have taken a single breath. Even when a body is put inside a ventilator there is at the very least a hope!

Yes, the feeling which you get when you're with someone is because of a ton of things but for some reason, I feel the magic breath has is amazing. You could feel the other person from his rhythm of breath without even disclosing a ton. Even when you start at different rhythm both of you might end the discussion with a synchronized breathing rhythm. Someone told that every breath inhale is life and exhale is death so it could be that you both live and die together for some time. Sounds like time and time well spent together!

There are a lot of other aspects but breath alone stands out for me as that makes that in-person visit so intimate! Cease the moment & feel it when you meet the family and friends!