Before I start writing my experience and the connect with the Mountains, I felt this urge to share something which is just so true and absolutely perfectly written and spoken by none other than the Man himself, the legendary Gulzar Sahab. Here’s the link for the YouTube video- https://youtu.be/khqz6bLRmWA, 4mins 20 secs of mesmerizing talk, expressing the Mountain’s talk with a Man!
The Mountains do have a calling, and it just can never be expressed in words or photos or through any other medium. The only and only option to realize it, understand it is to be there and experience it all by one self. Am yet to meet a person who’s been to Mountains even once, and not has the urge to go again or has not experienced the difference in being there. The energy, the vibes, the positivity which you feel is at another level altogether. The People, the Food, the Place everything has its own charm and makes me feel so alive, makes me realize there’s so much to life rather than living our mundane lives in the city with a fixed schedules and timelines and work home work with a little bit of pleasure here and there.
Mother Nature still has its beauty preserved up there and you can feel it all around you. Am a completely different person after having experienced this for quite a few times, and that too in different sort of trips, solo/with friends, self drive/public transport/walk/trek, zero budget/economical/luxury budget/, and all have got added to the system within me and have their own inputs and value addition in me being a person I am today! although I have no clue what I am.
Things for me work on an auto pilot mode up there. For me, I love driving on the curves and bends and blind turns and not so wide roads in not a driveable conditions. The thing is, for me I’ve figured out what works, and its this- There’s only one golden rule of driving not only in mountains but in our concrete jungles too. “Just be in your lane”, no matter what just stick to it, unless and until you feel the need to overtake (which for me is quite rare).
One can never be lost in the Mountains, simply because there are no wrong turns. All you need to do is keep moving and keep exploring, and rest everything will be taken care of!
Experience is what I Earn and Yearn for! 