The re-realization

The re-realization

Recently a trek made me realize again that we all follow the same structure of taking birth, struggling to live, dying and decaying. That’s what we all are supposed to do. How do we do it is what makes all the difference.

So, it is something like we all are given a big canvas, paper, cave walls and the like and then we decorate them the way we want it. That is why each painting, sculpture, story, article is different. The underlying principles may be the same but they are expressed in a different manner. Let’s take loyalty. For someone, loyalty might mean staying true to the religious path following all the rituals and customs to the word. For someone else, loyalty could mean not thinking about anything else but work. The principle remains the same but the expression is different.

So, let’s go back to my trek to Deo Tibba Base Camp through an organization called Youth Hostel Association India. We had to report to the base camp in Katrain. The reporting day was free. The next day, we went for an acclimatization walk in which we basically climbed half of the mountain and climbed down. Our instructor was Ramakrishnan sir. The next day we were taken for rappelling. That night we were asked to present a variety program for the camp fire in our orientation. We struggled and enjoyed preparing for that. The next day a bus took us to a village called Jagatsukh from where we started climbing towards our goal. We passed a village called Banara as well. We met our guide Mr. Jeevan and Mr. Tenzing. We reached our next camp called Tilgad, a meeting place for the panchayat of Banara and Jagatsukh. Our camp leader was Mr. Nadeem, who called himself Shakal. The next day we climbed through trees as well as rocks to reach our camp called Sarotu, the grazing place for the sheep. Our camp leader was Mr. Mihir. Next day we climbed through rocks and snow with less of trees to reach our next camp called Dumdumi. Our camp leader was Mr. Dixit. The camp was situated on rocks in between ice. It was very cold. Next day, we climbed through ice to reach our summit by afternoon, the Deo Tibba Base Camp. We took photographs. We began our descend with walking and sliding down the snow. We encountered a snowfall, a hailstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning and then followed by rains of course. We reached our next camp Kharabandari. Our camp leader was Mr. Ramakrishnan, the same person who took us for acclimatization walk. We continued our descend the next day to our next camp called Jobrinala. Here, our camp leader was Mr. Vibhas. Next day, we walked down the road literally to reach Prini. Then, we went to Manali for our lunch and returned to the base camp. That’s actually it.

The description above is informative but Oh My God it is so boring. This is what we all did but it is definitely not all that we experienced and cherished. Like I mentioned above. The above paragraph gives us the details of the trek objectively. However, if there were only objectivity, philosophy wouldn’t exist and life would be really boring. Subjectivity makes way for change and keeps interest in life. I digress of course. The point is, I find the structure for anything like life structure itself. There is a beginning, there is in between struggles, conflicts, this, that and blah… and then there is the conclusion and achievement. 

So, how is your subjectivity doing?