As teenager,
I always wanted to travel & see the world. But being a daughter of a
workaholic Practitioner who rarely took off from his clinic. But on lots of
hard Work done to convince him, he allowed me & my sister to go for
Camping. It was idea of one of my sister’s friend to go for it. This was the
first time we were going all alone far into Himalayas & that too without
our parents. We both were very excited about it.
We started
shopping & Packing. And did it more responsibly than ever as we were going
alone. That feeling was so different & special.
We were to
travel by train in regular coach 24 hrs journey with no proper food. Though
they said they provide food but Ahmedabad heat spoils that food even before it
was given to us. In fact, on the very first day we went without dinner as our
food got spoiled (but thanks to our Mother we all had enough food that could
last for at least 3 days if we did not get food anywhere).
This helped
many of us to come out of the comfort zone that is/was created around us. With
made many new friend, helping us to break ice with unknowns & later they
became very good friends.
Travelling
& Meeting new people helped us to mix with people whom we never knew
before.
Trekking in
group taught us to be a team. Helping us to cooperate with whom we might find
difficult to deal with.
Also to
learnt to deal with the unexpected situations like the we had in train, finding
the drunk sleeping below berth & was muttering something. Firstly, we all
were worried then once he had gone we laughed out at our weird imaginations (this
was our first experience). Though there were many situations you might find its
representation in my other articles. Some might never be described it is
between all of us just to laugh out. ;D
It brought
out adventurous side of ours which we ourselves were unknown to it until we
went for the trip.
What we
found best was THE FOOD at the campsite. IT was so yummy that we all had to
control ourselves so we could take part in Next activity.
Next was learning
Carefree, that Nothing mattered to us & Enjoying being in Present without
worrying about the future.
The Morning
Sunrise: Yes, though it was not a part of our schedule, some would wake up at 4:30am
just to see the RISING SUN amidst from the clouds & Mountains.
Above All These
We made many many Unforgettable memories.
We still
mesmerise those days, feeling that same pleasure we had there, even after had
been there long time back & being very busy with our lives struggling in
our careers.
Note: There are some of my experience from one of the trip I had in Himalayas two years back. I
have tried to put this as a view of a teenager as much as possible.
Dr.
Rajeshwari Doshi
