rAnDom PoSts bY a rANdoM ThInKeR

"Freezing Cold" is a hyperbole, but not at -12 degrees Celsius. Not when you are sitting besides fire and you see water inside a bisleri bottle freeze. For 11 of us "Freezing cold" would never mean the same as it did before our Doditaal trip. We, namely Jatin, Ranka, Piyush, Kanki, Maddu, Shweta, MM, Amrit, Rishav, Bose and me, went through Rishikesh, Uttarkashi, Nachiketa taal, Agoda ,Bebra, Maanjhi, Doditaal, Darwa pass and back on a trip of a lifetime in the last week of the year 2009, the year when we got our first jobs! We achieved many a milestones during this trip. We trekked 65kms in 5 days. We survived on mere bread jam, maggi and rice. We crossed 4000 mtrs. mark and reached upto 4200. We made rendezvous with a frozen lake. We survived a temperature of -12 and the movie "Zabardast". We returned safely. While we were on the trip, however, there were two questions which needed to be answered. Firstly, What all do we carry in our backpacks? We knew

“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.” Jostein Garder, The Solitaire Mystery

You have to find something in everything, because you can't find everything in something!

This is something none other than me would completely understand, because they don't know the context. So I will give you a little context. I am writing a story and in it there is drop in the river who is encouraged by other drops to keep flowing when he stops to think. The encouraging (rather threatening) poem by a drop named 'thought killer' goes like this Flow away fellow flow, flow not for friend or foe No one's never known to nay, The Nature's impeccable number Would(/Won't) you want to wander where, World's water's way's a wonder! fellow flow: is how they greet each other in the water world Nature' snumber : time Now one day the drop decides to give up his boring routine and set of for a course that is opposite to his regular flow.He encounters the same thought killer and the same poem from his mouth. But this time he feels that the poem is encouraging him to leave the routine. The same poem doing exactly opposite things. His belief that &#