Don't QUIT !!

       

       Sometimes some moments come in our life when we feel like giving up, It feels like we have run out of gas, mentally, emotionally and physically. Our mind accepts the defeat and keep on telling "Leave it nothing will happen". There are some incidents when we give up even before starting, with a thought that it will never work and sometimes we turn back when we are very close to victory. But actually that's the only moment when we should understand that these hard times takes us towards the memorable moments of life. You must have read about the great quote "Difficult roads often leads to beautiful destinations". We had similar kind of experience during one of our trip to USA.

It happened in 2015, we had moved to California for work. It was a new country so many new things and we had tremendous attraction towards silicon valley since college days, so the explorer in us didn't allow us to seat silent. In summertime, we had a plan to visit Yosemite National Park. This is a very famous and one of the most visited destinations in America so we were so much excited for this trip. 

We reached there in afternoon. It was a beautiful place with big mountains, green forest and deer's were playing in surroundings. We were happily enjoying the views. That day we just visited nearby points and returned to hotel. 

On second day, we had a trek planned. This trek was of moderate to strenuous difficulty level and revolves around a waterfall. We got ready and left the hotel around 9'o clock in the morning. The road to the park was so beautiful that we took many stops in between and explored the area. We reached at the trek starting point in afternoon. We got ready with trekking shoes and 15-20 lb backpack. In 15-20 minutes we crossed a small meadow and almost shocked on seeing the high rise mountains of giant rocks. 

Initially the road was going through the greenery showing small small water bodies but later it stopped near the steep climbing area. We were so exited about the trek that we easily climbed that part and kept walking. We were going on since a long time but didn't find water anywhere. Till that time the excitement of trek almost faded. We were so tired and were in a dilemma as what to do next. 

After some time we saw someone climbing down the mountain and they told us the waterfall is at half an hour distance from here. Again we had started moving in same direction. After sometime we heard big sound of falling water and got to know that water fall was nearby. On moving little further we saw the beautiful whitish water stream falling from a distance. Slowly we moved towards it and jumped in the refreshing water. 

After spending sometime in water we again continued our trek towards the peak. It was vacation time and the park was heavily crowded but as we were going upwards crowd was getting thinner. Later only few people were visible somewhere on the way. The pathway was getting narrower and steeper. Even if we walk just for 5 minutes the heart was pumping so fast forcing us to take a break. After so many breaks we didn't had courage to go ahead. We felt so tired that we didn't had any energy to move forward, hence we decided to stop there for sometime. We had some food but our legs were not ready to move. By the time sun was also moving towards west, We felt like it will be dark soon so there is no point going ahead and we should start going down the mountain. We had almost quit, but in the moment a desire awakened in our mind as 'lets go ahead a little bit' and we took a step. We kept moving slowly and after an hour we reached at the top of waterfall. We would never forget the feeling that we had on reaching the top, Peace of mind, Satisfaction, contentment all we had experienced in that moment. The view from top was giving complete justice to the hectic journey we had gone through so far. 

I still remember after reaching the top, I sat down on a big rock. I kept aside the backpack, closed my eyes but tears were rolling down from them continuously. I was so tired, my legs were literally cramping but my mind was full of beautiful feelings. And for next 5 minutes I was seating standstill in same position and my mind was shouting at me as 'This moment deserves all the pain and suffering you have gone through".

Sometimes, some incidents happen in our life, when we feel like things are not going in a way that we expect, but still if we believe that at the end it will make us better then we should push our limits to make it happen. If we accept defeat at that moment, then nothing will remain in our hand except regret and in future we will keep on thinking that we should have tried it one more time. 

History tells us "Go on sailing, Go on Soiling philosophy makes Christopher Columbus famous". And after the struggle, when we reach the goal the peace and satisfaction that we get cant be expressed in words. It can only be experienced.

So my dear friends, Keep going is the Mantra.