Possession

8th September, 2024

Often is the foreign trip which sends me on a buying spree. The first few souvenir shops always fail to impress me but by the 10th, I am already falling for some aspects of their tackiness. It may be a matter of constant exposure that my resistance breaks down or maybe deep down, I am that souvenir hunting, selfie powered tourist that I claim to despise. So there I was again, this time in Bangkok, surfing the (most of them probably Made in China) bonanza of tourist trinkets when I came across these two pachyderms. My heart settled on them immediately as a gift for my pre-teen nieces and with that intention they found their way into my suitcase. They travelled in their stately fashion to my home in India from Thailand but unlike many other items refused to move ahead. I too did not protest. Maybe the nieces were only an excuse for something that I had always intended for me.