Lost In a sky full of stars.

Contrasted colors, Aren't they? For the curious ones, The Milky Way of course.

Contrasting the colors of my life, for me. Contrasting life and death for me. Contrasting Love, and betrayal for me. Nothing but the most obvious aspects of life. Nothing but  nothingness.
 

 One of the most memorable trips /adventures, I've yet have in my life. A hike to the top of the killer mountain, "Nanga Parbat" a stay in the lush green valley of the Fairy meadows. A night under the sky, a night full of stars. I was lost, in my thoughts. The magnificence of the grandeur sky the infinite number of stars, and our finite existence. Are we just meant to stare at it? are we just meant to be gazing at it? Are we ever going to explore the hidden secrets, of the unknown? 

 Nothing can be said, or predicted. Nothing can be guessed. What the future truly beholds of us, we can just wait for it to happen. 

Try to count the number of satellites for me though.

You are never too OLD to Explore

 

While i was on my way, to the top of our province, Punjab,(Patriata) Situated in Pakistan. For the first time I had an experience to sit on a "Chair Lift/ Cable Car". The height was frightening, and even more was the speed that was carrying us from the ground to a height of at least 7500 ft. from the sea level. The cable car in the midway stopped, and i saw an old man travelling up the mountain chanting out loud, You guys up there, try beating me and reach the top without these fancy machines.

Lucensy of Mother Nature

What is purity? I had always wondered.What is serenity? I had never known. A sentence that I had always been told that,"mother nature knows all." constantly kept on ringing in my conscious and compelled me to set my feet out on a journey with only one purpose, to obtain the meaning of serenity. 

What is serenity?, was the first question in my mind.
Is it a song full of life? Is it a melody that makes you dance even in the saddest hour. Or is it a feeling that bestows upon you limitless felicity. 

Nonetheless, with a long journey ahead and these questions in my mind, I saw an adorable boy, busy in his mainstream life, trying to help his mother to fetch water from the nearest well, while he was busy in his shenanigans, making endearing uncountable mischief with his mother,  he suddenly gazed upon me. With his eyes fixed upon my face, trying read my expressions, I took a glance towards the background. My heart skipped a beat and i was lost in the mesmerizing beauty of mother nature, while the boy was still staring at me, I felt like the birds had started chirping loudly and in a sense the birds were trying to tell me, that this is true serenity. All along my journey, mother nature was trying to answer me but I was at fault, because i was not knowing her language.

Now with one answer in my bag, and some hope along with me I had decided to move on. Again, while passing through this valley full of unlimited aesthetics, I stumbled upon those rocky mountains, trying to reach as high as possible, and as soon as possible, because of that arduous routine that i had left back at home, was waiting for me. A few days had passed, and I was no where near to finding the second answer. With all my hopes shattered, and the time of my departure coming near, I was packing my bags, when a local guide came to take me to hike one last time, and there again I was astounded that as soon as we reached the intended place, I stared upon the mountains far far away from me, conscious started telling me that purity, is something that is beyond the reach of mankind.

 Purity is a feeling of completeness, that mere humans like us can feel for only a few moments but never, can we understand the true meaning of this word. We can explore, but we can never create.

"Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills."
Rhadanath Swami

A special thanks to Fatima for letting me use her pictures. Of course all the credits go to her.