Time flies. It has been almost 2 years since I created this blog site. I kept it active for only 2 months and then stopped posting. I think that is what most people who start a blog site do. But I have come back. Now it is a good opportunity for me to look back at what "adventure" i have really seen in the last 2 years.
Well to start, since May of 2006 with my 9 to 5 job changed to 9 to 10. I don't mean 1 hour I mean 13 hrs. That is what happens when you work for Japanese customers. So that removed my boredom on weekdays. Hey what about weekends. Well as it goes weekends are much more fun. I realize I wake up early on weekends and feel more fresh in the morning.
I have travelled a bit worked in LA worked in Tokyo. In fact I am in Tokyo right now and as usual I had a long work day yesterday a woke up early today.
I got a taste of paragliding. So this is my next pursuit "Paragliding". Check out where I got my first taste:
http://nirvanaadventures.com/
Well my first ride was tandem just a joy ride. But free flying at 1800 feet above the ground is an amazing experience. I think it would be better than flying a plane. Not that I have tried flying a plane. But then this set my next target "Solo flight".
Let me get there then I'll come back.
Keep visiting guys there may be something interesting coming soon.
Friday, December 07, 2007
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Finally, I have decided.
Yes, I have decided. I have decided which place am I going to visit. The place is Mumbai National Park. Sanjay Gandhi National Park was on my agenda for a long time but I was not making the decision. But now I have.
The only question now is, to assemble like minded fellow enthusiasts for the trek. I would like it to be this weekend. Which means day after tomorrow. Saturday morning India time. The place is not very far from where I live. It is hardly 6-7 kms from my place. A bike ride away.
Check out these really great pictures that a chap who is much ahead of me has uploaded. This fella is great. I need to beat him.
http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/kanheri_caves/
http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/silonda/
National park here I come.
Yes, I have decided. I have decided which place am I going to visit. The place is Mumbai National Park. Sanjay Gandhi National Park was on my agenda for a long time but I was not making the decision. But now I have.
The only question now is, to assemble like minded fellow enthusiasts for the trek. I would like it to be this weekend. Which means day after tomorrow. Saturday morning India time. The place is not very far from where I live. It is hardly 6-7 kms from my place. A bike ride away.
Check out these really great pictures that a chap who is much ahead of me has uploaded. This fella is great. I need to beat him.
http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/kanheri_caves/
http://amitkulkarni.info/pics/silonda/
National park here I come.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Paritrana - Their effort deserves backing and publicity.
Paritrana is what I am going to write about. Its been a while since Paritrana hit the news. Remember these names like you remember all people worth knowing, Rajpurohit (Tanmay), Chandrashekhar, Ajit Shukla, Amit Beesen, S Vasudev and Dheeraj Kumbhat.
For those who do not know what Paritrana is, it is a political party that these people have started. What makes their party special? They are people expected to be in boardrooms and scientific establishments. They are techies who are generally people most averse to joining politics and contesting elections. Social work many would have done, monetary contribution for social causes many would have made, but active politics is perhaps the last place that today's youth go for; given the current state of Indian politics which is considered, dirty and corrupt. I would have considered politics as the last thing I would do my self.
While poverty alleviation and good governance is something all political parties have in their memorandum, but these issues are sidelined by vote politics which means "any thing that can bring in the numbers needed to win". Division on cast, religion, language, race is a good way to earn votes and so is muscle or money power. These things are no doubt an integral part of Indian politics these days.
What makes me a fan of Paritrana the most, is that is has been started by people I used to think contribute most for themselves and least for the nation. IIT graduates. While I figured that even an IIT grad needs to prove himself and do good for himself by utilising the best opportunity s/he gets, but number of IIT graduates who are in US which is 40,000, always made me feel that we produce bright engineers for US in IIT and that is all what we do.
My skepticism has ended thanks to the contribution of these 5 IIT brats who might just bring the change that India needs. It is hard work but not an impossible task. After all so many parties gather a lot of votes with much less to offer. It is said that people in some states of India don't cast their vote, they vote their cast. Division is what brings votes and seats in Indian politics. These young men who dared to break convention, and dared to risk their careers for the good of their country, deserve all the good wishes and backing we can provide. Wish they bring unification not division.
I have never voted in my life. I could have been voting for last 8 years but I haven't done that yet. There was nobody I wished to vote for. I don't know if my name is in the voters list at all or not. It appears from news articles I have read that they will contest elections in my home state. I will have to ensure that at least my name is there in the voters list. Let us see if they live up to the expectations that people now have from them. If they do then they might be the first party I vote for. Hope they find good candidates.
I wish them all the best. Paritrana way to go.
They sum up their ideology in their Hindi shloka:
"Sabhi sukhi hon"
"Sukh ka mool samriddhi hai"
"Samriddhi ka mool rajya hai"
"Rajya ka mool dand hai"
Translating in English:
"Let everyone be happy"
"The root of happiness is prosperity"
"The root of prosperity is rule"
"The root of rule is reward/punishment principle"
Paritrana - May you be tough as a Rock.
Paritrana is what I am going to write about. Its been a while since Paritrana hit the news. Remember these names like you remember all people worth knowing, Rajpurohit (Tanmay), Chandrashekhar, Ajit Shukla, Amit Beesen, S Vasudev and Dheeraj Kumbhat.
For those who do not know what Paritrana is, it is a political party that these people have started. What makes their party special? They are people expected to be in boardrooms and scientific establishments. They are techies who are generally people most averse to joining politics and contesting elections. Social work many would have done, monetary contribution for social causes many would have made, but active politics is perhaps the last place that today's youth go for; given the current state of Indian politics which is considered, dirty and corrupt. I would have considered politics as the last thing I would do my self.
While poverty alleviation and good governance is something all political parties have in their memorandum, but these issues are sidelined by vote politics which means "any thing that can bring in the numbers needed to win". Division on cast, religion, language, race is a good way to earn votes and so is muscle or money power. These things are no doubt an integral part of Indian politics these days.
What makes me a fan of Paritrana the most, is that is has been started by people I used to think contribute most for themselves and least for the nation. IIT graduates. While I figured that even an IIT grad needs to prove himself and do good for himself by utilising the best opportunity s/he gets, but number of IIT graduates who are in US which is 40,000, always made me feel that we produce bright engineers for US in IIT and that is all what we do.
My skepticism has ended thanks to the contribution of these 5 IIT brats who might just bring the change that India needs. It is hard work but not an impossible task. After all so many parties gather a lot of votes with much less to offer. It is said that people in some states of India don't cast their vote, they vote their cast. Division is what brings votes and seats in Indian politics. These young men who dared to break convention, and dared to risk their careers for the good of their country, deserve all the good wishes and backing we can provide. Wish they bring unification not division.
I have never voted in my life. I could have been voting for last 8 years but I haven't done that yet. There was nobody I wished to vote for. I don't know if my name is in the voters list at all or not. It appears from news articles I have read that they will contest elections in my home state. I will have to ensure that at least my name is there in the voters list. Let us see if they live up to the expectations that people now have from them. If they do then they might be the first party I vote for. Hope they find good candidates.
I wish them all the best. Paritrana way to go.
They sum up their ideology in their Hindi shloka:
"Sabhi sukhi hon"
"Sukh ka mool samriddhi hai"
"Samriddhi ka mool rajya hai"
"Rajya ka mool dand hai"
Translating in English:
"Let everyone be happy"
"The root of happiness is prosperity"
"The root of prosperity is rule"
"The root of rule is reward/punishment principle"
Paritrana - May you be tough as a Rock.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Time has gone by lazily. It's been over a month since my last post. What I intented to be a weekly post has already missed 5 eposides.
So much for adventure.
Well I am to be blamed for the most part, but perhaps not solely. My internet service provider turned out to be just as lazy as me. He would't renew my internet connection which expired in the first week of January inspite of my repeated persuations. It turns out he is too lazy to make his money.
We all know what we want and what is good for us and yet it turns out some of us are too lazy to even try. Same goes with me. Lazyness and fear are perhaps the only two things that prevent a person from getting things that are good for him.
Today is Martyr's Day, 30th Jan 1948 is when Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated by religious fanatics. Only yesterday I finisher a book on freedom and partition of India "Freedom at Midnight - Dominique Lapierre and Larry Colins". It belongs to a friend who recommended I should read it. Facts in the book appear to be well documented and provides a whole lot of references, so for now, I take it to be authentic. A deeply moving book that I could not let go once I started reading it. I finshed it over a weekend, starting friday evening I was done by Sunday dusk. For once I showed no lazyness in reading a book worth reading and a history every Indian ought to know.
The Mahatma died a martyr and achieved in his death what he had sought so dearly to achieve in his fasts. Secession of communal frenzy. Perhaps in guilt of what the people of India had done to themselves they finally gave up rioting. They were perhaps seeking vengence for what had happed to them or their friends and family, but they were seeking vengence by killing another group of innocent people. Beacuse Hindus were thown out of their homes in Pakistan, Muslims were thrown out of their homes in India.
The fact that Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu was considered by the establishment as a necessary point to be emphasised in offical news broad casts, in order to avoid more backlash on Muslims. But I believe, had it been a Muslim who murdered the Mahatma the guilt would have been the same, and perhaps people would have felt it the same way.
The police were too lazy to apprahend the people responsible. The first assasination attempt that had failed on 20th of January perhaps left enough clues. If nothing else then it had left behind a co-conspirator of the attack, Madanla Pahwa who had detonated the guncotton bomb which was ment to distract people while others did the act and was caught. Other consprators froze and panicked and could not do what they had come out to do. They dispersed. The police turns out was too lazy to get Pahwa to reveal every thing he knew. He took them to the site in Delhi where they had stayed, he could have even taken them to the places in Poona and Bombay and Ahmednagar and Gwalior where he had been if nothing else the police had enought time to carry him around in trying to identify the co-conpirators. Some senior police officer in Poone was too lazy to hand over the photographs of Nathuram Ghodse the person who finally commited the crime 10 days later over to the police in Delhi, even though he had a report on his desk. I wish they were less lazy.
After reading the chapter "Our people have gone mad" I felt India is as communally sensitive as ever. In 8 weeks of rioting about 200,000 to 2 million people died. The estimates are as they are estimates. But even the lower estimate is too big to believe. The families wrecked by the killings will carry the wound for generations to come. But perhaps in many cases entire families had been murdered.
The stories of abduction and rape and mutilation were too grotesque to repeat. Half the people of what Americans lost in 2nd world war in 4 years were killed in rioting in 8 weeks of mayhem.
Gandhi was killed by his murderers who were organized and not just some rogue group of angry people. They were also well financed for their task enough to afford a flight from Mumbai to Delhi and to pay any price demanded for their murder weopan. He was murdered because he opposed the rioting and because he fasted to make the government pay the 550 million rupees that Indian government owed and refused to pay Pakistan believing it would be used to procure weapons that would be used in Kashmir.
Why do I belive India is as communally sensitive today as then? Because I have in my lifetime already witnessed 3 major communal riots. Anti Sikh riots of 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assasinated by his Sikh bodyguards because they thought she was anti-Sikh, the riots of 1992 and the riots in Gujarat after the burning of a train in Godhra. Not that I was affected by these riots. Lukily for me I was not, but I have known people who have witnessed two of them.
When the news about the burning of the train reached newspapers all over India, I was in college and I remember discussing it in a college canteen with friends. I remeber how we felt disgusted by what was done and how we immediately knew that riots will follow in Gujrat.That is precisely what happened. The right wing parties called for a bandh in Gujrat and riots followed.
I wish police and administration is less lazy in dealing with riots, because only a few gangs of crazy people riot and 100 times more suffer either direcly or indirectly because of their acts.
I wonder why the rioters aren't too lazy to seek revenge by killing those who are innocent. Cowards they are for sure if not lazy.
So much for adventure.
Well I am to be blamed for the most part, but perhaps not solely. My internet service provider turned out to be just as lazy as me. He would't renew my internet connection which expired in the first week of January inspite of my repeated persuations. It turns out he is too lazy to make his money.
We all know what we want and what is good for us and yet it turns out some of us are too lazy to even try. Same goes with me. Lazyness and fear are perhaps the only two things that prevent a person from getting things that are good for him.
Today is Martyr's Day, 30th Jan 1948 is when Mahatma Gandhi was assasinated by religious fanatics. Only yesterday I finisher a book on freedom and partition of India "Freedom at Midnight - Dominique Lapierre and Larry Colins". It belongs to a friend who recommended I should read it. Facts in the book appear to be well documented and provides a whole lot of references, so for now, I take it to be authentic. A deeply moving book that I could not let go once I started reading it. I finshed it over a weekend, starting friday evening I was done by Sunday dusk. For once I showed no lazyness in reading a book worth reading and a history every Indian ought to know.
The Mahatma died a martyr and achieved in his death what he had sought so dearly to achieve in his fasts. Secession of communal frenzy. Perhaps in guilt of what the people of India had done to themselves they finally gave up rioting. They were perhaps seeking vengence for what had happed to them or their friends and family, but they were seeking vengence by killing another group of innocent people. Beacuse Hindus were thown out of their homes in Pakistan, Muslims were thrown out of their homes in India.
The fact that Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu was considered by the establishment as a necessary point to be emphasised in offical news broad casts, in order to avoid more backlash on Muslims. But I believe, had it been a Muslim who murdered the Mahatma the guilt would have been the same, and perhaps people would have felt it the same way.
The police were too lazy to apprahend the people responsible. The first assasination attempt that had failed on 20th of January perhaps left enough clues. If nothing else then it had left behind a co-conspirator of the attack, Madanla Pahwa who had detonated the guncotton bomb which was ment to distract people while others did the act and was caught. Other consprators froze and panicked and could not do what they had come out to do. They dispersed. The police turns out was too lazy to get Pahwa to reveal every thing he knew. He took them to the site in Delhi where they had stayed, he could have even taken them to the places in Poona and Bombay and Ahmednagar and Gwalior where he had been if nothing else the police had enought time to carry him around in trying to identify the co-conpirators. Some senior police officer in Poone was too lazy to hand over the photographs of Nathuram Ghodse the person who finally commited the crime 10 days later over to the police in Delhi, even though he had a report on his desk. I wish they were less lazy.
After reading the chapter "Our people have gone mad" I felt India is as communally sensitive as ever. In 8 weeks of rioting about 200,000 to 2 million people died. The estimates are as they are estimates. But even the lower estimate is too big to believe. The families wrecked by the killings will carry the wound for generations to come. But perhaps in many cases entire families had been murdered.
The stories of abduction and rape and mutilation were too grotesque to repeat. Half the people of what Americans lost in 2nd world war in 4 years were killed in rioting in 8 weeks of mayhem.
Gandhi was killed by his murderers who were organized and not just some rogue group of angry people. They were also well financed for their task enough to afford a flight from Mumbai to Delhi and to pay any price demanded for their murder weopan. He was murdered because he opposed the rioting and because he fasted to make the government pay the 550 million rupees that Indian government owed and refused to pay Pakistan believing it would be used to procure weapons that would be used in Kashmir.
Why do I belive India is as communally sensitive today as then? Because I have in my lifetime already witnessed 3 major communal riots. Anti Sikh riots of 1984 when Indira Gandhi was assasinated by his Sikh bodyguards because they thought she was anti-Sikh, the riots of 1992 and the riots in Gujarat after the burning of a train in Godhra. Not that I was affected by these riots. Lukily for me I was not, but I have known people who have witnessed two of them.
When the news about the burning of the train reached newspapers all over India, I was in college and I remember discussing it in a college canteen with friends. I remeber how we felt disgusted by what was done and how we immediately knew that riots will follow in Gujrat.That is precisely what happened. The right wing parties called for a bandh in Gujrat and riots followed.
I wish police and administration is less lazy in dealing with riots, because only a few gangs of crazy people riot and 100 times more suffer either direcly or indirectly because of their acts.
I wonder why the rioters aren't too lazy to seek revenge by killing those who are innocent. Cowards they are for sure if not lazy.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Last week went by pretty fast, in anticipation of the new year to bigin on Sunday. This weekend was special, it brings last year to an end and today the year 2006 has started. Many activities are planned for this year. Where there arent many big things to remember that occoured last year, well 26 July deluge in Mumbai is a date one wont forget and there are some work related things that were more than routine.
Coming to 26th July well I was damn lucky to face perhaps the least of all troubles on that day. We had got the message that an extraordinaly amount of rain had fallen that day, and came to know that Pune office has closed early. We could see the streets outside the office flooded in knee length water, and could guess that we may have to walk back home, thinking that we won't get a conveyance to home. But non of us had an idea as to how much flooding the rain had really caused. Only after walking for a couple of hundred meters did we realise that the flooding was pretty bad. There were 3 of my colleages with me.
On some streets the flow of water was strong so we had to hold hands while walking. It was also a sensible thing to do keeping in mind that streets could have open manholes which are nothing less than life threatening. On the way you could find a lot of people walking on the streats. If one remembers the live pictures of the scene in New york after 9/11, one can imagine what had really happened. In the end we managed to walk home in an hour or so. Then since electricity was out I had to walk up 16 floors in the building.
As in all tragedies lives were lost, but a lot of lives were saved an injuries avoided by people who came out to help those in touble.
We witnessed positive spirit by individuals but negative spirit by administration as ever. I hope the infrastrure of Mumbai improve but then one can only hope, it does not look likely.
Coming to 26th July well I was damn lucky to face perhaps the least of all troubles on that day. We had got the message that an extraordinaly amount of rain had fallen that day, and came to know that Pune office has closed early. We could see the streets outside the office flooded in knee length water, and could guess that we may have to walk back home, thinking that we won't get a conveyance to home. But non of us had an idea as to how much flooding the rain had really caused. Only after walking for a couple of hundred meters did we realise that the flooding was pretty bad. There were 3 of my colleages with me.
On some streets the flow of water was strong so we had to hold hands while walking. It was also a sensible thing to do keeping in mind that streets could have open manholes which are nothing less than life threatening. On the way you could find a lot of people walking on the streats. If one remembers the live pictures of the scene in New york after 9/11, one can imagine what had really happened. In the end we managed to walk home in an hour or so. Then since electricity was out I had to walk up 16 floors in the building.
As in all tragedies lives were lost, but a lot of lives were saved an injuries avoided by people who came out to help those in touble.
We witnessed positive spirit by individuals but negative spirit by administration as ever. I hope the infrastrure of Mumbai improve but then one can only hope, it does not look likely.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit. --Shakespeare.
Time is 11.40 pm Christmas day in India. Today I am starting what is planned to be a weekly record of adventure activities I plan to undertake. While the title is meaty enough to warrant an adventure in the "Climbing Everest" category, but that would be hoping too much of a change, in a life, which has been generally urban and routine until now. A bit of pondering went into the title of this Blog. "Quest" sounded like a great title but there is no big quest in plan, perhaps I can hope for a future post worthy enough of this title. Wanted to keep the title simple and hence settled for "In pursuit of adventure".
The first thing that comes to ones mind with words like pursuit, adventure and quest is a much more basic human quality of curiosity. Observing a child quickly reveals that his curiosity helps him learn new things about the world around him. A world he needs to learn about for survival and for fun. The same curiosity is what grows with him and transforms in a search for goals, and achievement of those goals. The goals need not be big and striking, but one needs both simply achievable, and far fetched goals to keep life interesting.
When people can't find their next goal, life certainly gets boring and one gets restless to find something worthwhile to do. This makes people switch jobs for example, some people change cities and change professions. People are always in pursuit of better things and bigger goals. This is what keeps people interested in living I guess.
I am no sociologist to be an authority on this, but generally one can map the pattern of ones own life experiences with that of others and, one can consider the common characteristics as the general truth. Guess this makes sense.
To draw parallel to my life and something that every one who went to school might have felt, is a clear goal that every child has. That is to pass the next exam, and win the next game in sports. I rather not get into level of achievement in that goal, after all that is secondary. The official motto of my school for instance was "Run, then for victory", a school batch mate of mine interpreted this as "First run, and then run for victory". Victory was secondary, first run. So find a goal and go for it, of course pursuit of victory is what keeps one interested in going for the race for ones goal in the first place. But having got it, getting it matters less that running for it.
Then some goals are considered life changing and an absolute must to achieve. For instance passing the state board exams was considered more important. So passing the 10th standard exams and the 12th standard exams were life changing. 10th would be decision time to choose subjects for the next 2 years and 12th would be decision time to choose career and higher education.
Life is anything but boring in school at least. It is by far one of the most interesting periods in life. Same is said about ones college. College comes with its distinct advantage of freedom, and in my case, since I came from an all boys school, an opportunity for greater interaction with girls (how does ladies sound?).
One inadvertently likes one girl more than the rest and one hopes to see a reciprocity in the liking. Next goal, pass the subjects, win friends, play the games and then the goal to one day pop the question, "Girl, do you like me?". The words may never come out, many people never have the last goal in college which is the ideal condition to have. But some time or other you have to pop that question and face it too, whether the traditional way or any other. So a big goal in life is this and there is adventure in it too. Quite a life changing event, right? Another goal that many people have is buying/getting ones first motorbike/automobile.
The next life changing goal which college is meant to prepare you for, is choosing your career and getting ones first job. In professional colleges with the luxury of campus placements, the goal becomes getting job on campus. Some are more entrepreneurial and want to start on there own, and that is also quite a life changing decision.
I had and achieved most of the goals I mentioned above, missed out on two major life changing ones, and settled for alternatives available. But now three years in job, already life is looking boring and I see no new goal. This is how work life can get, and this ain't a great state to be in early in your career. This would be the time to take risks, and one can easily guess that work life is not really very different from your other life they are one and the same, one thing reflects on to the other. A happy work life reflects on you when you are not working, and how you spent your evening is likely to affect how you start your working day next morning.
It is Monday 26th 12.38 am already and this means my work time is only a few hours away.
To finally come to the main point. I want to add some outdoor adventure to my life. The next few months will go into preparation for it. Which means physical training. My house is luckily situated near one of the last remaining green areas in the city of Mumbai. This offers me an opportunity to add some cross country running to my training. Well a big adventure planned is that of bike rides to places around, in preparation for places afar. This Blog will cover/ track that and also help me be true to my goals, as they are now being tracked.
Time is 11.40 pm Christmas day in India. Today I am starting what is planned to be a weekly record of adventure activities I plan to undertake. While the title is meaty enough to warrant an adventure in the "Climbing Everest" category, but that would be hoping too much of a change, in a life, which has been generally urban and routine until now. A bit of pondering went into the title of this Blog. "Quest" sounded like a great title but there is no big quest in plan, perhaps I can hope for a future post worthy enough of this title. Wanted to keep the title simple and hence settled for "In pursuit of adventure".
The first thing that comes to ones mind with words like pursuit, adventure and quest is a much more basic human quality of curiosity. Observing a child quickly reveals that his curiosity helps him learn new things about the world around him. A world he needs to learn about for survival and for fun. The same curiosity is what grows with him and transforms in a search for goals, and achievement of those goals. The goals need not be big and striking, but one needs both simply achievable, and far fetched goals to keep life interesting.
When people can't find their next goal, life certainly gets boring and one gets restless to find something worthwhile to do. This makes people switch jobs for example, some people change cities and change professions. People are always in pursuit of better things and bigger goals. This is what keeps people interested in living I guess.
I am no sociologist to be an authority on this, but generally one can map the pattern of ones own life experiences with that of others and, one can consider the common characteristics as the general truth. Guess this makes sense.
To draw parallel to my life and something that every one who went to school might have felt, is a clear goal that every child has. That is to pass the next exam, and win the next game in sports. I rather not get into level of achievement in that goal, after all that is secondary. The official motto of my school for instance was "Run, then for victory", a school batch mate of mine interpreted this as "First run, and then run for victory". Victory was secondary, first run. So find a goal and go for it, of course pursuit of victory is what keeps one interested in going for the race for ones goal in the first place. But having got it, getting it matters less that running for it.
Then some goals are considered life changing and an absolute must to achieve. For instance passing the state board exams was considered more important. So passing the 10th standard exams and the 12th standard exams were life changing. 10th would be decision time to choose subjects for the next 2 years and 12th would be decision time to choose career and higher education.
Life is anything but boring in school at least. It is by far one of the most interesting periods in life. Same is said about ones college. College comes with its distinct advantage of freedom, and in my case, since I came from an all boys school, an opportunity for greater interaction with girls (how does ladies sound?).
One inadvertently likes one girl more than the rest and one hopes to see a reciprocity in the liking. Next goal, pass the subjects, win friends, play the games and then the goal to one day pop the question, "Girl, do you like me?". The words may never come out, many people never have the last goal in college which is the ideal condition to have. But some time or other you have to pop that question and face it too, whether the traditional way or any other. So a big goal in life is this and there is adventure in it too. Quite a life changing event, right? Another goal that many people have is buying/getting ones first motorbike/automobile.
The next life changing goal which college is meant to prepare you for, is choosing your career and getting ones first job. In professional colleges with the luxury of campus placements, the goal becomes getting job on campus. Some are more entrepreneurial and want to start on there own, and that is also quite a life changing decision.
I had and achieved most of the goals I mentioned above, missed out on two major life changing ones, and settled for alternatives available. But now three years in job, already life is looking boring and I see no new goal. This is how work life can get, and this ain't a great state to be in early in your career. This would be the time to take risks, and one can easily guess that work life is not really very different from your other life they are one and the same, one thing reflects on to the other. A happy work life reflects on you when you are not working, and how you spent your evening is likely to affect how you start your working day next morning.
It is Monday 26th 12.38 am already and this means my work time is only a few hours away.
To finally come to the main point. I want to add some outdoor adventure to my life. The next few months will go into preparation for it. Which means physical training. My house is luckily situated near one of the last remaining green areas in the city of Mumbai. This offers me an opportunity to add some cross country running to my training. Well a big adventure planned is that of bike rides to places around, in preparation for places afar. This Blog will cover/ track that and also help me be true to my goals, as they are now being tracked.
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