Early Morning Walk

Its been 8yrs since i landed here.........I cared less about the tourist points around this city or any city for that matter........I don't like to visit a place for the sake of tourism unless there is something that interests me...........I like to travel around and i must say it all started with a walk...........Having said that in all these years i road around the city to all the places i liked or assumed i would like, basically to the places of silent and nature..........Wonder where am i leading?........it all comes down to the present day early morning as i struggle to leave my cozy bed that can easily create the illusion of time.........I keep taking new routes to walk/run in search of fresh thoughts...........sometimes the same route becomes mundane to cross over..........likewise today i took a detour and led my footsteps towards an unknown route..........After a while i felt like walking into a time capsule at every step i took..........back in mind i know there is a fort nearby and every person who has been to this city would have visited the spot.........but the lackluster mind did not let me visit the place in all these years.........with all the excitement of discovering a route to the fort i walked into a laid back village where children were still playing in the streets in this period of time unlike the modern kids engrossed into internet or computer games or attending additional classes to score additional marks in their upcoming exams..........These kids were living their age and it was a sight to be preserved in mind.........further as i climbed the highest point i see a blurred hill ahead with tree branches creating an illusion of a fort............I fix that hill as my destination point and walked ahead...........there were no vehicles around and hardly any human at sight...........I was enjoying the sight of blue sky and empty road...........then i came across another person with his headphones enjoying his morning walk............uncertain of the route that would take me to the fort i inquired him of the route.........to my surprise i had to take the opposite direction to reach the fort and supposedly i was fooled by the illusion that i saw earlier...........now i took a U turn and walked through the village...........i had a slight pain on my right foot and i did not want that to wither my effort to reach the desired destination point..........after walking a mile or so i saw the fort at a distance but still closer than the other hill i assumed to be the fort hill..........a fusion of pleasure and happiness filled my thoughts..........i moved ahead to reach the entrance as i was behind the fort and to be honest i had no more pain at my foot..........it made me realize the effect of happiness to our body..........i followed the boundary wall to the main gate but half way through i reached the fort entrance........... there was curve that one has to walk through to reach the tall beautifully sculpted wooden gate..........i wanted to travel through time to see how it would have been a few hundred years ago to go through the fort gate.............but that was just the beginning.............as i crossed  a foul staunch hit me hard and i do recollect the same smell from my past usually one would come across in any other poorly maintained monuments in India..........leaving the other horrible encroachments of houses and other shops filled through the way to the current fort entrance.........finally i reach the destination after one and half hour walk..........a kind of fulfillment engulfed my mind...........it was a beautiful way to start the day...............to my another surprise i discovered a shortcut to my room and found that fort was way closer than i thought........I decided to go inside the fort next time and that would be very soon.