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Relate The Life- An Experience
It was the month of july, the city was getting showers and the famous Lonavala got its greenery back. Now, it was high time for the people of Maharashtra getting calls from the beautiful green hilly terrains for monsoon treks. The various trekkers clubs gets to see spike in their bank account balance's graph and all are ready tieing up kits and packets, getting to the site and enjoying. Now readers let's shift to a different place where two friends getting bored with the daily routines, bulldozed by the assignments as most of the engineers knows it well. Though both of them were interested in treks but the sombre routine don't let them stand out. Evening 1730 hrs: Hey bro!! Yaar chalte hain re trek pein. Though the reaction, guy got from his friend is extremely disappointing but he started showing the picture of a place near about to Lonavala. Seeing the photo Sikher our hero obviously his eyes sparked out as if he was waiting years long to trek a place like that. The beauty even both of them can't express, so they can't even wait as they got a call from the Hills.

It' was 0430hrs boys tied there trek shoes laces , and started their way with the mind, heart just beating a drum note of seeing the place , in digital terms they now want to get the pixels to be clear and see the place with the god gifted lens . Started their journey with two of the other juniors our shining heroes reached Malawli , now those who ever had been or now residing in Maharashtra in Pune or Mumbai you all have atleast a knowledge of this area , it's a hilly regions and the scenaries are just mind-blowing which can't be expressed using adjectives. So on reaching the very first thing that welcomed our four heroes is the drizzle followed by heavy rain but they don't even stopped the rain became the new friend , and they were enjoying it's presence. After a long time the nature saw Four homo sapiens just behaving as if they were just born, two of them rolled on the wet road , while the other s started playing with the stray goats as they pass through the beautiful village but suddenly their lenses focused onto the hills and they just stopped with silence looked at each other with a hope that today they will do it and will enjoy to the fullest , they passed through the base village and then some localities one of them was Mahesh Kaka a local biscuit and stationary seller helped the team with the road to trek after a 30 min of walking through the villages zig zags , getting a welcoming smile form the children , and families out finally they stood still infront of One thousand and Forty Four metre Lohagad plateau and ways leading to Visapur, though a short height but for trekkers every hills have their own essence , the climate accompanied with its salubrious presence, and the lush green garsses were just kissing this 4 heroes boots as if the grass is admirining and welcoming them giving them a early indication that this trek is getting to be a really memorable one. The boys started climbing , the roads as marked by previous trekkers led them to, the climbing was accompanied with silence and the group talking about the brave peshwas of Marathas Balaji Viswanath, so let's move into a bit history Visapur a fort as alrady mentioned is on Lohagad plateau, built during the. Seventh Hundred Twenty Three BC (Information as per localities and Net), commanded by the first Peshwa of Marathas. The team's now reached to a flat table in the hills as we know it's a type of plateau also having a flat table like formation , the team rested a while and finally the rain again started with its full pace the drizzle geared up and the boys started making their dress dirty like kids, throwing muds on each other the nature only witnessed that , the innocence, the friendship , the brotherly attitude flourished as if god shown them just like the nature is formed with trees, hills , narrow streams same for their bonding is binded by the love, friendlyness, the brotherly attitude.

They finally started for the second round and finally a place came where the team need to trek against the flow off a waterfall and climb up, the algae and the parasitic plants are clinging to the rocks and the water helping them dwell over there, the water showing as if showing them and giving them a life lesson " Beta chaye kuch bhi hojai rukne ka nahi" ( As water don't stop due to rocks they make their own way out teaching our team guys that life is like water and the rocks are daily obstacles stopping due to presence of these obstacle is not an option we need to make other way out. They tighten up their boots and finally they started against the stream and for. the very first time they encountered one of the animal that clings to one of their boots a "Yellow Snake" as they don't even recognised her what's her name but the guys removed her and let her go but , onethings they don't forgot to atleast get a photo of that species. Finally with multiple attempts and getting through the rocks with water flowing with pressure and they are against the stream accompanied by frequently slipping out in algaes and again climbing up they reached into the remains of the famous Visapur Fort, the history agained captured the mind with questions of when , how and why , they found the scupltured images of God and Goddess , and where our devout Hindus have left with flowers , it was the remains of the demolished fort the British raj demolished bthe fort on 1817 along with the neighbouring fort of Lohagad. They felt bad but at the same time their mind saluted the heroes of Marathas who fought with pride.

With a feeeling if sadness the peak was coming nearer the rain still accompanying them and the now the mountainous winds accompanied , the wet body was shivering with cold but still these boys don't even thought of stopping, the only thing that was rolling out in their mind was to reach the peak , though the peak was not clear as now they are already getting their path interfered bt the clouds ingression, the clouds are clunging with the trees as if both of them are in love with each other and they don't want our boys to interfere in their intimacy by not allowing them see where they are moving. But somehow they manage, got into the ups and downs and then finally into a place where the team now need to climb holding the slippery rocks. The challenge started now as in that team only on of them had atleast some experience in treks but the others and the major challenge was the algae presence , the stopping was not an option to them so they finally helped each other , clinged each rocks one after the other and the rocks also supported them to reach the "Sikher" . Really that day they felt if nature wants and if we love nature , nature will surely love us.

They managed to climb this , it took 45 min after helping each other and multiple attempts with one member got a minor leg injury they reached the peak. Wow!! It was now the Fort premises , the large stone builded houses and carving of hanumana and the rains as if hanumana with water just flowing over his body in the absence of humans the nature is taking care of him, the remains of the fort walls and the narrow paths where the trekkers really need to risk lives passing through high cliff side and a singke wrong step can put them away forever from near and dear ones but our heroes managed it out , they climbed they jumped , they were wet , they risked each and every zigzags in the way the slipped but they managed as that day their only assignment was the conquer the hills , the spirit of winning this vast hills was rolling in their minds . From the top they saw the vast , beautiful greenary of the hills, as if small ants green in colour has scheduled a meeting in those hills, their mind finally got to see the beautiful face of those hills, they were feeling as if now they are living for something, the depressed minds , the peer pressure all these things in their mind got diffused with the melancholic touch of the hills.

Finally by 1400hrs they started their journey downwards and choses the hard path with the presence of slippery rocks, with rain making it more challenging and a waterfall and now they need to move with the direction of waterfall. They tied ropes one after the other and get into one after the other and the rocks accompanying them , the greenary They reached a waterfall again and it was the last stage and they enjoyed the every drop of that waterfall's water . The smile in their face was clearly reflecting that yes life has a different defination too. it's we who are responsible how we define our lives , the journey though will end now but a simple hill of only 3300 ft taught these guys many lesson, if we relate each and every thing with our surroundings we will be happy, the water, the wind , the hills all these are gift of god they each of us teaches us lessons of life even each of us know it , but the present society maybe making us blind, it's not just the suicide that will help you get happiness , it will not give you happiness not your near and dear ones Relate your Life daily get into finding the Science of nature , get the reason out of it share thoughts , learn , talk more and if someday you get time go for a experience of nature like these 4 heroes have done. After that awesome trek they were never been together but the memories the learnings the feelings that they related with the nature , the knowledgeble trek changed their lives.

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