akhnoor

2/25/2016 8:37 PM

Happy……….peaceful….rejuvenated

32 km ride on mountain terrain , I went to attend a colleague‘s brother marriage. It was  hardly  16 km from my office area. Thought it was a small ride, a small motorcycle …but those things nothing matters now .The same old thought, its not what you ride …..its just one thing YOU ARE RIDING. I was missing something,  from past few days i have a mood swing I donno why , but today I got an answer  . It was the roads I missed, that sound of the wind, those twist and turns.  “Mountain roads”, it always makes me more comfortable than usual. I feel more peaceful when I am riding hi ranges,, twists & turns . elevations, up and downs, gutters, slush, unpredictable vehicles coming opposite to us just like our lifes.

I donno where did I get that riding bug in my head , deep inside it was never about riding, it is  just  a medium to think,  to travel, to experience. Experience no matter what good or bad. There are lot of things to learn from each and every experiences in my life and in everyone’s  life too. I have faced far more dangerous situation in my service ( I am not calling it a profession ,bcoz I am not here for a job  I am here to serve) than a normal adventure tourer or traveler. Despite of all these hardships and sufferings that I endured & survived in my life , I donno when I started to dream about travelling  biking cycling,  dreaming of doing all those stupid things ( like my seniors and amma says he he). But those stupid things are making me peaceful, it’s a different kind of peace I am experiencing, the same kind of peace I have experienced through meditation and yoga a couple of years ago. I feel more concentrated when I am riding. A couple of months earlier one of my friend asked me what makes me happiest most….it was a difficult question because I never thought  about that. I am not in search of happiness, its experiences what I seek .

Why ? I have no answer for why…………………………

seeker

After My First motorcycle Ride random thoughts

03-Feb-17 4:54 PM

           When I was at Kashmir and surrounding places usually on duty, I used to saw bikers very often on roads (I can’t say roads may be trials, tracks 10 years before). As I was always detailed on the top of the truck because I was the only one in our team who always volunteer to sit on top, both summer and winter season respectively. As we were struggling in cold and snow we often watch these riders and used to think what they are up to, what they are trying to prove, because none of us came there voluntarily we all were on duty. My senior always used to comment on them (not in front of them) “Marne Kliye aaya kya”. Though we help the riders out whenever they were in trouble, I didn’t understand the driving force behind their action. We always ask each other the ultimate question WHY THEY  RIDE ? . I didn’t get the answer till now but that old question has changed, now its “WHY WE RIDE” because in course of time I became one of them. Thank you, brothers, for introducing me to this awesome world, it was because of all of your support that I started dreaming and still chasing it. I started riding motorcycle at the age of 22 (I know its very late ). My riding exposure was limited to 80 days a year which ended in a solo ride from Trivandrum to my workplace Jammu taking 6 days in 2016. It was hell of an experience which paved the way to my first Himalayan ride, those same mighty mountains once I guarded in uniformJ. On June last I rode from akhnoor to kasol and then with sukesh, my friend from Bigfoot family, we started our journey through mighty Himalayas. Yes like all other riders it was an awesome experience to ride Himalayas. The joke part is the places I used to suffer on duty (though I don’t mind that sufferings because those things molded me to another person ) felt like a normal tourist place for me. I enjoyed that kind of sights and sceneries that I never noticed on duty. A completely out of the world experience. When I reached Kardungla i just talked with my brothers who guarded there and their reaction was not different from my past reactions for bikers J. One senior there even scolded me for wasting my valuable leave on these kind of crazy things J.Well sorry sir , thanks for your advice but  I am not done yet. I have just started……………………..

seeker