Experiences

Life as we know is fleeting, changeable and imperfect. All things human are short lived and perishable. It is true that “Change is universal and permanent, rest everything is transient”. In fact, the very existence of homo-sapiens on Earth is because of evolution or in other words a series of changes brought in by nature. Changes can be gradual like one’s depleting health condition or sudden like demonetisation. But, sooner or later we all have to face difficult times, and the way we deal with this can make a huge difference to our quality of life.  It’s not what happens to you, but how you react that matters. The nature in its wildest form teaches us the same, survival of the fittest. You must have heard the story of two frogs. There were two frogs, both were kept in separate tumblers filled with normal water. For one of it the temperature was raised very slowly every day, so that it can adjust to the change but beyond a certain point its body was deteriorated and it finall...

Right after my board exams got over we decided to go for a family pilgrimage to Vaishnodevi. It seemed right to visit the shrine as the results were going to be out soon. The trip which was supposed to be a family pilgrimage turned out to be tiresome excursion. It took us more than 24 hours and different connecting trains to reach Katra which was the junction point for all pilgrims going for the holy pilgrimage. Many people from far off lands of India were here, occasionally a few foreign tourists could also be spotted. Old people, youth as well as young children flocked together, preparing themselves for the long walk to the shrine. It seemed to be a world fair going on.  We booked a room nearer to the starting point. Everything seemed to be overpriced, but that’s understandable because tourism was the only source of income for many local people. After having breakfast we started our journey on foot. Thousands of people were going to the sanctum, most were on foot, s...