Life is a journey. Never stop walking and hiking. Being a person from plain areas, i am often afraid of these high hills and mountains. With time, i have overcome this fear of mountains and hills. I am afraid of falling from heights. This is scary. But, hiking helps me to heal this scary part. I imagine being slipped by rocks, but that's just fear lingering in my mind.
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Lace your boots.... let's go on hiking; My friend invited me to go with him on hiking by saying this.
I was all up for such activity. It's a nice way to take a break from the usual routine of messed up life that is confused with academic activities and digital lifestyle.
It was Saturday's evening. To my surprise, it wasn't just one group that was hiking to Jeap track. The whole hiking club(a club formed in my university for hiking lovers) was on trail with full energy and water bottles.
I was unaware of so much crowd that was ready to walk on rocks. I assume people were feeling bored in hostels, and they found hiking nice activity to kill their boredom.
With each next step, new revelations were made. Nature was showcasing more and more beauty.
I was hiking with three friends. Not properly friends....specifically people of good acquaintance with whom i have good terms and equations. Jokes were being cracked, and laughter was roaming in the air above. I was laughing at all mundane things that were being discussed.
A while after, everyone planned to take a little break so that everyone could gather at that point and then start again from that point.
From here; hiking unfolds itself. The part we covered was bit easy. It was more like walking and hiking starts now!
Someone was picking flower to place it close to ear. Tree was nice with these white flowers. I hiked away.
It feels like life. Everyone stood there for a while. I took a deep breathe at so much height.
These groups were making stops after just a little hike. Many of them were beginners and came for the first time. I asked from few students and they told me that they are from second semester. So it means it was their new experience.
Night was about to fall. Sun winked away and moon was calling. We wanted to hike up but our hiking guider gave us red flag. He said that it's about to dark so it's good to stay here for half an hour. Some students did exercise and offered pray over there. Some students were singing songs, some were smoking and some fell into conversation. I was observing every thing in my surrounding. Looking at the people who were praying, I played and then sat among students who were singing. I joined them in singing with my lungs touching voice π.
With darkness, we hiked down. It was a different experience to hike in the darkness. I was almost feeling blind but conversations with friends didn't give me any awkward meaning.