Sun Comes Up And It’s Been About A Year!!

Sit back!! Relax, sip tea from your old mug. Straighten your legs on the small rickety table. Push yourself back on the wobbly wooden chair, its weak arm rest dangling back and forth (it reminds me of the old sea-saw I had at my dad’s house). Relax your body muscles. Look around. The cool breeze soothes you of all the pain you had. Close your eye and listen to the beautiful tranquility surrounding you, the mesmerizing symphony of beetles. Look back at your life, your pains, desires, and achievements, moments that defined your life. The moments that made you, what you are.

I went to search beauty. And I went far and alone. I have always wandered amongst the herd and I am tired of it. I desired rest, wanted some time to straighten things out with my life. Hence I went cycling to Himalayas. I cycled some 90 Kms in four days. Saw snow, got drenched in heavy rainstorm. Still I cycled and I loved it, where I couldn’t cycle with the heavy rucksack on my back I carried the cycle on my shoulder, bathed in the freezing river water, did river rafting with the locals, and crossed river in basket screeching down the ropeway. By the candle light I had my dinner. In nights, far away from civilization, away from news and electricity, I slept like a log. Sometimes physical exertion gives you mental peace. I went to search it. I wanted to run away from these formalities, worries, fears and hopes. And I found it.

I saw beauty. There was tranquility, that harmony and serenity, that was too expanse to hold anyone looking for it. I was captivated by the happiness and content on faces of the locals. It makes me laugh at the fakeness; the so called ‘civilized’ world is being carrying along with it. Laugh at all the fears I been compounding as I grew up.

I learnt something on this trip. Beauty is skin deep, as deep as it gets. Deeper than one thinks it can possibly be. The problem is we have been searching it outside. It taught me to cheer up. Relax and love my life. There is enough to celebrate about. Accept the inevitable. Be what you are, because one has enough beauty to be happy about. Your weakness can be your strengths. Laugh aloud. Take life as the river flowing down the mountains. It gushes along the rocky pathway, but that defines it, that’s what makes it beautiful.

Summers long gone out,
Sun comes up like its been about a year.
But I don’t mind if we drink again my friend because,
There is so much left to celebrate,
Life is beautiful for sure,
Cos I love everybody here.
And there is so much left to say….

Mountain Biking, Jalori Pass, Himalayas; :D