Have you ever cycled to any of the places ? If so will you share about the experience and memories you had in your journey.
Be a cycler who lives to cycle than one who cycle to live. Enjoy every Up’s and Down’s of your legs which keeps the cycle moving similar to the good and bad times in our life. Then you will start seeing and feeling more in our journey than what other travelers does. Dawn And Dusk will start distracting you to explore more and soon you will realize that it was easy to count the moving stars whom visits you than the ones whom you visits.Then you will realize, it was better to sleep over the rooftop than to sleep beneath the roof with fluorescent stars. This will surely drive you into craziness. Enjoy and explore every moments of life like a child.
Being a cycler we could ride deep into the life of others and it will let us know we too have a life. We might see different perspectives of life.
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May be a women with shaggy hairs which is tied at the back using her hair strands with some of the hairs dancing with the warm wind. Her Eyes seems to be over strained and some of the hairs seems to stick on her cheeks, which might have collapsed any overwhelmed drops of life forming stream to form another drop at her chin.She is waving at the vehicles with lotteries in her hands. I wondered how she could cope up .She looks exhausted. Then i saw a small boy and a girl playing with the bubbles in the shade of a nearby building. Now I understood the reason why the lady is melting under the sun and the reason for the smile on that children’s face.
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Or May be the moment of silent communication between a mother boarding her son to school bus. She looks for her child till he takes the seat. The moment she waves at him with the sparkling eyes conveys a lot of messages. Its difficult to read her mind. She masks everything with a smile.she might feel relieved,that she was able to get him on bus at time. She might be happy that she could give him the best she could at the same time she is worried to be away from her son hoping him to be safe.
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Or may be a lady who convinced you to be poor and helpless to get money from you and the next day by night, you saw her getting inside a van with other beggars without any disabilities. Even being a beggar is a business today. Not all but at least one. Its us who encourages them to be back again at the same place where we gave money. Its us who make them act disabilities and wear torn dress. Our society wants to see them as a beggar to be a beggar. Help them by buying them what they need, if you have some time to spend with them that will be even better.
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Or may be the moment, when someone’s life is in your hands. I visited a dam and thought i could also make to the nearby place even though it was not in my plan. After reaching half of the way but then the elevation started increasing gradually and i couldn’t bear the sun anymore without water and hardly had any money with me. So i took a U turn and while descending down, mild cold air kissed on my face and i bend my legs back like a bird. I was enjoying that moment with music and then i noticed something on road, i kept on looking and saw someone trying to wave his hands looking at me with motorbike over him. I cycled faster, pull out earphones out and on reaching near by i left my cycle to the other side of the road and ran to him. I lifted the motorbike and put to the other side. I helped him to make him sit over the nearby platform and i kept on asking if he was fine. i checked if he had any deep wounds or if he is bleeding but the nose bleeding seems to be locked and there are only few scratches over his hands and legs. He asked me to support his hands. I wanted to get water for him and i couldn’t see anyone nearby so i asked him to sit forward as there was a pit behind the platform and i ran to a nearby house for water but i saw the door locked and met an old man near by. I asked him where i could get water from and he told me “There is a house on the other side you may get it from there”. So i ran back and saw some of the workers from the nearby place which undergone landsliding in the flood few months back, Moved closer and saw the water bottle beside him and i slowed down. The people gathered there started questioning and examining him. They were busy asking him different irritating questions like how it happened , where he went , Where he is from , if there’s vehicle at his home etc. That might be the moment you will understand no one may be even there to take you to hospital if something happens. He was answering few words like he doesn’t wants to answer. He was worried with his hands. He asked if someone could pull his arm, so that it might get fixed. The old man told if he doesn’t have any problem then he could do it at the same time he tells let the doctors examine the issue. I wondered what he was saying. At that time i checked my phone and saw a call which was somehow connected before minutes. That was my mother. I spoke back but she kept mum. I disconnected the call and call back again then she asked as she haven’t heard anything, “When will you reach back home ?”. I answered “I have just left from here , it might take up to 30 minutes”. Then she told me not to lie like my father and then i told her what happened and kept the phone. They are still busy questioning and looking him. He seems to be helpless and asking if someone could support his hands. Then he called someone by name, who was walking from a distance. They seems to be known to each other. He told him that he couldn’t move his hands. His friend went to the nearby junction on a bike with someone who came on the way and came back in auto rikshaw. He was made to sit inside and the auto rickshaw driver asked if someone could hold his hands from inside. Then the old man told he could hold his hands up to the next junction and told he has to leave there. The auto went and i asked his friend to lock the motor bike after taking it from the pit with the help of workers. I went back to home and my mom just told a sentence “This is a lesson for you”.
Even if its just a sentence that struck inside my heart. It all seems to be a coincidence. The moment i decided to cycle back,The moment i saw him on road, The moment when mother’s call was connected even without knowing. The moment she said its a lesson for me.
- Or may be unknown people advices you and start caring for you,
- Or may be you have to witness the drug dealings and street fights helplessly.
You will witness different faces of the society and you will realize that the world is not within your walls, the world is not what you see out of your windows. Come out and get lost yourselves exploring
I used to be in my home always and that’s the way i was brought up,with electronics gadgets and Internet. Being a local guide is a reason for me to explore more places. Having no time is just a reason, It’s all about prioritizing things.You won’t be motivated to do something unless you are passionate about it or there’s a need to do it.
Human greed and requirements never ends.We don’t care about what we have, we are running behind what we don’t have.In this chase, We are building Our own palaces and kingdom. We forget to enjoy and live Our life. We separated ourselves with the walls and learned how to behave inside and outside. We learned how to be formal and informal.
Everyone is mad,me too.My ideas may be mad for some and not for others. Sometimes i feel like i don’t wanna share this creation of nature with others, I feel others might destroy this place too.Still i bring out the beauty of the places hoping some may still like to retain this place as it is.
I hope Google maps will encourage cycling and take steps to protect our nature like
- Cycler Intercommunication and Meet ups
Allowing cyclers to meet and intercommunicate with each other encouraging group trips and meet ups.
- Nature Friendly areas Google maps
Marking some of the places in Google maps as nature friendly giving others warnings not to litter that place.