It was a small muddy narrow road with no charcoal laid on it and covered with green top made by the trees on its either sides. I was walking at the least stride along with this handsome on my side dressed in his own best style and whom I admired the most in my school days.He was looking his finest in a pair of denim pants,white lining shirt peeping out of the blue denim short jacket which had a black cloth slit at the back and the sleeves cuff folded at the wrist, decent casual shoes,and all this escorted with his perpetual charming smile and that killing look of his majestic eyes.Passing through this leafy garden of my first school campus,we reached the open ground where around hundred more people(students) were assembled.Girls in the first row and boys in the following .There were two male and two female instructors to guide us all throughout the trip which was about to start to some hilly jungle zone for trekking purpose .As both of us approached them, girls started gazing us with questions in their eyes to verify if there was something like a matter going on between us. I looked back at them strangely and then turned to smile at him who was just a little behind me and then we both joined ourselves in the respective queues. And all this was being watched from the window by our school principal whose office was exactly behind the lines formed.
Few minutes passed by and we started our trip in two different buses. Boys in the first bus and girls in the subsequent.It was a 2 by 2 non ac bus and I had nobody sitting besides me. We entered the rain forest after traveling for some 5 hours and it was green all around. Seemed it had rained heavily the previous night. Bus was moving at a very slow speed due to the kachha filthy road. I was looking out of the window in a very nostalgic mood when suddenly I realized that one of my classmates who was in the former bus was observing me persistently through the back glass of his bus while sitting in the last seat.And he could see me easily as I was in the first row of the bus and both buses were made with some transparent fiber body.I became a bit conscious by being watched so vehemently and felt uncomfortable for quite some time.
Within next 20 minutes, we reached a place where there were big stones lying on the road and they had to be allofed to move further.Few people got down and initiated the help.I again began to admire the beauty of nature and while gently sloping my eyes through the jungle, I saw a huge dam like water body which had massive waters running through it.I have always had some fear with the the deep waters and same feeling I sensed to see that giant water blockade .I tried to study it more deeply when I saw two boys who were trying to get down through the wall to get into the waters .One of them lost his balance and fell into it only to reach the depth of some 20-30 feet beneath and as the water was crystal clear I could see him struggling for life to come up.Past the frequent tries he made,he succeeded to reach on the crown level .I skipped my heart beats to see all this but was relived at last when he saved himself.I moved my eyes away from that scene because I had not enough strength to see something like this any more in case that boy encountered such misfortune again. But I prayed for his safety.
Stones were removed and we advanced our journey.It was one more hour to travel through that deep jungle and there we reached our destination, a big building which was hired for our accomodation.We were given our rooms and were asked to be ready early next morning to start our trekking. We all were badly tired and could hardly see anything else but bed.Two of us including me did not join others for dinner and laid down in the bed to get some rest.Hardly 5 minutes passed by and there was a knock on the door.The other girl opened the door to see two boys of our class asking for me. I overheard their loud conversation and went there myself to check what the matter was.Amongst those two I recognized the one with less height,silky hair, dovy eyes and face shining with his beautiful smile.He was the guy who admired me a lot and had asked me earlier to befriend him.He told me he was sorry if he had hurt me by proposing infront of all his friends and said he understood why I refused him.He also assured of a friendly behavior ahead owing to my liking towards someone else.I simply nodded my head to accept his apology. They left and I returned to fast sleep only to wake up next morning.Somehow I did not feel like joining the group again for the early hour trekking and I made some silly excuse to stay back.When others had left ,I went to the terrace of the building which was connected to other constructions in a stepladder manner making it doable for one to reach the last structure roof in procession.I started walking down the top of each building until I reached the last roof which sheltered a very old house.Sun had risen by then.It was a beautiful morning with birds chirping all around,sun spreading its rays on every single thing on the earth, passing by river reflecting with sun rays, people chanting their morning prayers.It felt I could see the whole world from the top of that house.I stood there for a long time, bathing in the cool breeze with my eyes shut, smelling the fragrance of the nature and lost in some beautiful thoughts of love, life and admiring my ownself.While I was enjoying this enthralling encounter of my life, I was disturbed by the vibrator of the mobile I was holding in my hand.I pushed the answering button to see who was at the other end. It was my aunt who had call to enquire about the colossal toy my husband had recently brought from USA for my 1 year 10 months old daughter who was now awake and was crying loud for her bottle of milk and to make me realize that I was not on some trekking trip but on a voyage to some dreamland which was perhaps exhibiting different phases of my own life and emotions within.
It was indeed a beautiful experience to live that DREAM.
Few minutes passed by and we started our trip in two different buses. Boys in the first bus and girls in the subsequent.It was a 2 by 2 non ac bus and I had nobody sitting besides me. We entered the rain forest after traveling for some 5 hours and it was green all around. Seemed it had rained heavily the previous night. Bus was moving at a very slow speed due to the kachha filthy road. I was looking out of the window in a very nostalgic mood when suddenly I realized that one of my classmates who was in the former bus was observing me persistently through the back glass of his bus while sitting in the last seat.And he could see me easily as I was in the first row of the bus and both buses were made with some transparent fiber body.I became a bit conscious by being watched so vehemently and felt uncomfortable for quite some time.
Within next 20 minutes, we reached a place where there were big stones lying on the road and they had to be allofed to move further.Few people got down and initiated the help.I again began to admire the beauty of nature and while gently sloping my eyes through the jungle, I saw a huge dam like water body which had massive waters running through it.I have always had some fear with the the deep waters and same feeling I sensed to see that giant water blockade .I tried to study it more deeply when I saw two boys who were trying to get down through the wall to get into the waters .One of them lost his balance and fell into it only to reach the depth of some 20-30 feet beneath and as the water was crystal clear I could see him struggling for life to come up.Past the frequent tries he made,he succeeded to reach on the crown level .I skipped my heart beats to see all this but was relived at last when he saved himself.I moved my eyes away from that scene because I had not enough strength to see something like this any more in case that boy encountered such misfortune again. But I prayed for his safety.
Stones were removed and we advanced our journey.It was one more hour to travel through that deep jungle and there we reached our destination, a big building which was hired for our accomodation.We were given our rooms and were asked to be ready early next morning to start our trekking. We all were badly tired and could hardly see anything else but bed.Two of us including me did not join others for dinner and laid down in the bed to get some rest.Hardly 5 minutes passed by and there was a knock on the door.The other girl opened the door to see two boys of our class asking for me. I overheard their loud conversation and went there myself to check what the matter was.Amongst those two I recognized the one with less height,silky hair, dovy eyes and face shining with his beautiful smile.He was the guy who admired me a lot and had asked me earlier to befriend him.He told me he was sorry if he had hurt me by proposing infront of all his friends and said he understood why I refused him.He also assured of a friendly behavior ahead owing to my liking towards someone else.I simply nodded my head to accept his apology. They left and I returned to fast sleep only to wake up next morning.Somehow I did not feel like joining the group again for the early hour trekking and I made some silly excuse to stay back.When others had left ,I went to the terrace of the building which was connected to other constructions in a stepladder manner making it doable for one to reach the last structure roof in procession.I started walking down the top of each building until I reached the last roof which sheltered a very old house.Sun had risen by then.It was a beautiful morning with birds chirping all around,sun spreading its rays on every single thing on the earth, passing by river reflecting with sun rays, people chanting their morning prayers.It felt I could see the whole world from the top of that house.I stood there for a long time, bathing in the cool breeze with my eyes shut, smelling the fragrance of the nature and lost in some beautiful thoughts of love, life and admiring my ownself.While I was enjoying this enthralling encounter of my life, I was disturbed by the vibrator of the mobile I was holding in my hand.I pushed the answering button to see who was at the other end. It was my aunt who had call to enquire about the colossal toy my husband had recently brought from USA for my 1 year 10 months old daughter who was now awake and was crying loud for her bottle of milk and to make me realize that I was not on some trekking trip but on a voyage to some dreamland which was perhaps exhibiting different phases of my own life and emotions within.
It was indeed a beautiful experience to live that DREAM.
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