Those few moments which I call "LIFE"

It all began on this Friday night. Kshitij,Arun, Raj and myself decided to take a midnight highway ride and then up to the hills in the wee hours. We decided to get our quota of things for the trip, lucky we had very few things to get. Beer cans, cigs, something to munch on and jackets to save us from the chilling wind.

We left at around 1230 AM from our place. We were on the NH4 in around 15-20 minutes. We let our driving fantasies unravel on the road, the bikes were running at 110-120 Kmph. The feeling one gets when the wind whizzes past his face is just awesome. You forget whatever worries you have and really relish the moments. We just went crazy driving our bikes and screaming on the road.

Our stop en route to the DD Hills.

We reached Khalsa dhabha at around 0200 AM. Old memories came running,when we were in college we used to frequent the highway dhabhas. Pat came the fab chai of the dhabha, trust me it could beat the best of ChaiBar or Infinitea. Savouring each sip of it, we could manage to get just scrambled eggs to munch on at that time.

After finishing our round of refreshments, we all got talking. People could not wait to finish the beer, cans were opened and gulped within minutes. Wow!!! the beer, friends and ambience nothing could beat it.

It was close to 330 AM when we decided to lie down on the charpais. I cant explain the feel of the place, cool breeze, clear sky and stars. It was like a dream. At arnd 500 AM we decided to leave for DD Hills.

It was a pleasant morning, again bikes running at 110-120Kmph. We reached the foothills of DD Hills at 545 AM.

More in the next part!!!!

The ordeal of being a human.

I sometimes wonder whether its a boon or bane to be born as a Homo Sapiens. Life has taken me through so many crests and troughs that it makes think do I actually have control over my life. Yesterday I got the news that one of my close friends passed away in a tragic road accident, somedays back another news was about my aunt being detected cancerous and she would be with us for at maximum 6 months. These incidents have shook me completely, time and again I go back to think whether its a boon or bane to be born as a Homo Sapiens. As Yudhisthira, a protagonist of the Hindu epic Mahabharata said to Yaksha, a God in answer to his question that what is world's biggest wonder that all human beings know that we are mortal yet we live our life in such a way that we are immortalised.

This thought in the background of the two recent tragedies has made me believe that life is much more than run of the mill chore, its about giving and sharing and try making this world a better place to live then only my birth would be a boon else its a bane.