When loneliness brought best out of me.
INDIA | Tuesday, 29 April 2014 | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry
When the sky kiss the distant mountain of himalayan ranges, you are just left awestruck by the nature's unconditional love, that brings the best amazing experience of your life. I left Delhi where I used to live, now I live in Varanasi, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, though this article should have rather been apt if I had written on Varanasi but the sheer experience of Dehradun was a joy on it's own. Being a sophomore, there was a hint of boredom coming into my life, so what's a better way to come out of your closet than taking a 8 hour ride to laps of himalayas. The plan was made in evening while going through the usual introspection thing I love to do. I left at 2350 hrs after a google search on where to go and the transport that I would need. Journey started with an anxiety and prayers on lips. I had minimal amount of money to go with only a pair of jeans and a shirt to wear out the trip. Journey wasn't that easy knowing the condition of road transport of India and add to it that the journey's on a hill station, sigh! I reached there at around 0800 hrs. It was chilly yet refreshing to a metropolitan lad who has his normal morning be like waking up soaking the polluted air. Standing at the station I got the view of my life. A continuous mountain range kissing distant sky with sun trying to peek out from either side but denied. But slowly as the time passed, sun do made his ground as if telling the world, it's me who channelizes the world with warmth that it scattered on the ground. As far as I could take my eyes, my eyes were baffled. It was 0900 hrs and the city still looked boozed off the opium picked. The seen was unparalleled from what I experience in my day to day life, which is office hours menace. It seemed as if city has pledged not to follow the western approach and live in their own. Places like these are better left untouched. The moment you touch them or try making some amendments, system falls. That sight gave me true meaning of life that day. I got my introspection mode back and sat there just gazing through the city. Christians, muslims, hindu etc. we all lie under the same radar of peace and harmony. What needs to be done is, don't do anything ! Try making your community better rather than making there's. People in dehradun are like honey in India, sweet, simple yet it comes from a beehive, which means it should rather be left undisturbed and that's how I enjoyed it by getting lost in them for a week.
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