Jun 16, 2024

A Short Detour

away from the monotonous life. an escape.

15 June, 2024, 0900hrs

The river has a particular sound; when the water crashes with the stones and makes the little pebbles roll. A brown noise helping me to focus more.

I am sitting around trees and nature, a peaceful climate, cloudy and about to rain. I can see the river and the mountains that surrounds it. The river looks really small from here, but in reality it's wide enough to gulp a whole train.

I can see the deep forests on the other side of the river which stay still like sleeping giants. I wonder what is hiding in that. Can I just go away and get lost in it? Away from everything? Let me make amends with animals- because they are far more capable and intelligent than animals.

Perhaps I was wise enough to come here for a change. It's a shame I have to return today- back to the mundane. Back to that prison and to the problems that never seem to leave us.

14 June, 2024, 2215hrs

Right now, I am at Prashaanti Cottages, Bhalukpong. There's a beautiful river and I can see it when I get out of the room (when it's day ofc, now it's night). I am planning to do some writing tomorrow morning, or just nature watching.

Now, why did I come here?

Well, I am not alone- I came here with Ma. After planning more than 5 trips with friends/family, and seeing that none of them will come to fruition, we decided to come on our own. Even though it's off-season and there's nothing much to see here at this time. Ma came here out of spite, to prove that we can do anything by ourselves. That sounds a bit misanthropic, but it is true most of the time. Yet, I continue to believe that you can never be a "self-made" man/woman; you must work alongside others.

She managed to convince me to get out of my rot as well. Hmm.. I do experience laziness or friction to just GET OUT. I don't know, but I get pretty "slow" when I have to go out somewhere. But once I gain enough momentum, I can sustain that for long periods of time.

Although there's one thing I realised: trips don't have to be long or even "perfect". You don't really have to go to some popular place. Sometime you just need a trip just for the sake of it, to just head out; away from the mundane, society and from stress.

I think it is a form of escapism. As long as you're not overdoing it (the escaping part), you should just keep travelling, go on trips and LIVE. That's the most important part: to live.

This is a cool detour. Short, but enough to reset our lives.

Sometimes you can find meaning in the most meaningless stuff. That's called life. It's absurd, yet beautiful.

We did some boating on the river as well, along the sides of the Nameri Forest Reserve.

It was raining mad. Still, we went out in the wild river. Letting the current take us, wherever it wants...