The Runaway Boy escapes

I, the Wanderer, felt it is totally unjustifying to call myself a “wanderer” when no other part of me except the brain is wandering in places.  The desire to travel and lie in the lap of nature, find solace in the shadows of trees and identify myself among strangers had been filling up my heart since months. Not to forget the human feeling of jealousy, that can be blamed on social media where every now and then I found people changing status messages and post as many photos of a trip that are available with them in their computers or cameras. Though, jealousy’s percentage among the things that troubled me will be merely 5%. 

After a pretty good roller coaster ride, I am earning nicely now. People have been bugging up for more salaries as I usually find my friends wasting my time cribbing over their packages (especially software engineers). None of them, believe it, none of them ever says something beneficial about the society that can be done to make lives better. No discussions about poor people, or efforts that we can put to help them get some good education. I think the definition of “success” for the current population is wallets full of money, fair wives, 2 cars, investments and other ways of minting money. One more thing, I get really pissed off when people say you are the 1^st person I know who is content with his job. Come on, cant a man stay in peace? 

Anyway, I am hopeful of making a better social circle of thinkers rather than this different-faces-same-thoughts crowd. Coming back to my point, I went ahead with this sudden Dehradun trip citing a good opportunity – a 4 day holiday. Yayyyy!!! Thanks to Satish, I found the chance to wander again. To my surprise, the sense of direction is still intact. I don’t know how my brain maps this all but I enjoy every part of travel to a new place because I can make out directions without relying much on a compass.

Our 9820 Bus in the middle

Dehradun, probably a 7 hour journey from Delhi, is the place to be in. We were supposed to be in Vaishno Devi for these holidays but this country is full of ridiculous people who throw stones, blow fire and create chaos especially in Northern part of India. I wasted half a Thursday finishing off my pending office work. A sudden call from a colleague, and I was ready within 25 mins, bag packed and out of home. We commenced our journey at 6:30 in the evening and reached the house of Satish’s cousin at 1:30 AM, blissful weather being our companion.  It was pitch dark, with huge trees adding a sense of mystery to the whole scenario. Generally, people get scared with such a quiet night, this is what excites me up to the core.

1:30 AM and darkness behind

Satish

 I was welcomed by his cousin Sameer and 2 friends (Deepak and Kullu) who stay with Sameer. I slept as soon as I laid down and woke up at my usual time of 7:30 AM. I was in a new place. And what do you do in a new place? Rush to see it outside. Straightaway, I was at the roof and God, what a scene it was. A big blue sky, a warm sun, fresh air, colorful houses & the mountains of Mussoorie shimmering at a distance. Damn Delhi, who needs bungalows, skyscrapers and cars. Though both of them start with a D, they are a total contrast - prosperity vs natural beauty, artificiality vs functionality, noise vs peace and chaos vs freedom.

The mountains of Mussoorie behind

  Its not that I arrived at my decision in just a second, but it took me two days to go through most of the internal parts of this town, the streets, colonies, houses, transportation and of course, the people. They have kept their life simple. As if the nature has brought calmness in their lives, mountains have brought beauty and weather has brought happiness. In two days of observance, I dint find anybody fighting on the road, the food was extraordinarily light and people behaved and travelled together without bothering each other for space. I felt a lot like me there since I was walking with mirrors, echoing my thoughts. That is what nature is.

Panoramic view of whole area (through my 520)

So, I will be uploading pictures of my 2-days-well-spent and earned in 2 other posts. We had a very nice discussion at home about this place and if I get lucky, we all might shift. As mama said, the utmost necessity in this world is not money, it is the peace of mind. So he is ready to move, all I have to say is "Lets Go" Wooohoooo. The sage found a haven.