I can’t stop grinning while typing this blog post! I am thinking about how Life plays around with us giving the ‘same damn’ realizations over and over again, but with a twist. Gosh!! What a feeling I have gone through today…Ultimate! It was a feeling of complacency, struggle, stubbornness and finally an accomplishment. To top it all, the reward was so short but then felt - plenty!
The task was not easy today. It gave me nightmares
thinking about the cycling distance with my friends that included 8 kms uphill
with a total of 42 kms. I had not touched a bicycle after school and the mere
thought of a gear bicycle freaked me out completely! All in all, it felt like an
absolute testimony for my mind.
Friends picked me up early in the morning, reached
the location, chose my cycle, learnt the technicalities and got ready for the adventure.
We started cycling on the flat road – what could be called the complacent phase. Initially, I was having intermittent reminders about how I used talk to my bicycle back in
school. Ah, I love those real pals of mine. Anyway, after warming up with the
first 13km- stretch on foothills of Nandi hills, we got set for the dreaded 8 kms uphill,
the hairpin curves, and the nerve-wrenching steep roads.
Next, the struggle began and was progressing. As
we neared to the 3 hrs of cycling to our destination, the test got tougher and
tougher reminding me of Robin Sharma’s words- “ 99% of people give up when they
are one step closer to the success” , which
made me - not to give up! I pursued and achieved like all my friends! It gave
me an immense sense of accomplishment as people who make it to the top were the
only ones allowed to ride back downhill by the organizing team, which was the
reward and an experience by itself. And I wanted to experience it, badly!
The tiredness instantly faded. I was extremely
excited to ride back downhill. We started within no time and the feeling was truly
flabbergasting! It was so much the worth cycling for 3 hrs just to experience
that 10 mins of flowing down. The flying experience, the sumptuous breeze, the
pleasure of achievement and the fun of the entire trail felt inexplicable. I
didn’t want it to end, the feeling of exult, of being on cloud nine seemed
gushing through my veins.
Once again, through this event, I realized how
valuable the reward is when you go through enough efforts to fetch it. It needs
no explanations, no sharing, and no justifications when you experience it as a deserved return. Any gain that comes in shortcuts, is a short of real
fun which anyways is the whole point of - Celebration!
Signing off for now,
Achu
