In my dictionary of contemplating thoughts trekking is synonym of life, because our life is exactly how trekking is. Every human being experiences different things in different stages of life. Trekking also unveils various new things that a person hasn’t experienced in life. The initial distance covered in order to reach any destination is like the first stage of life. We are new to this world in real life in first stage and new to the world of nature and panoramas while trekking. Even the smallest thing could make us happy and go crazy during this stage, be it toys, dresses and cartoons in real life or streams, butterflies, birds, spider webs and plants while trekking.
The excitement of the trek moves on to the second gear of seriousness after covering 1/4th of the distance. This is similar to the second stage of life where a person gets career oriented and starts taking life seriously. The tension to reach our goal (in life)/ destination (in trekking) increases with every step we take. Suddenly we start believing that every step taken towards the trekking destination is taking us away from it; so is the struggle for achievement in real life. The trail goes up and the trail goes down, just like the ups and downs of life.
While walking back on the trail, a trekking enthusiast senses a new beginning with cleansed soul and in context with the life, human soul searches for a new body to reside in after the death - for a new beginning in different form of life.
I don’t know if I have done justice towards elucidating my thoughts, but this is what I strongly believe in. If you find it all confusing, I suggest you to go for a trek and after experiencing that you will be able to comprehend the meaning of what I wrote. Seven days of trekking might teach you more about life, rather than simply living seven months.
You tried to show similarity in initial stages of trekking and childhood but I feel a difference here. In childhood, we don’t consider Toys as small things. They become as precious to us as a Car to our parents. Its only maturity that comes with time and we start indulging ourselves in other important things but in case of Trekking, we are fully aware of the things to do and we get to know, how small-small things can give pleasure and make heart blissful.
ReplyDeleteThis is not contradiction. Its just that different people can have different opinions or perception.
Toys are actually small in real...
ReplyDeleteas u consider it as a precious car...
what i wrote was that these small things in the initial stage makes us go crazy... and it is crazy in real that a person is thinking of a toy as a car... but a person comes to know about this after growing up...
i hope u got the point now
Nice comparison buddy...loved some of the lines that you used to define it all.Could actually see life and trekking going parallel to each other.Best post so far...
ReplyDeletenice post bhai..................
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