Trekking around myself

It was going to be a 3 day weekend!!
Wow!! being the initial reaction..and before i could further imagine myself enjoying a long wknd...
What am i gonna do with it?? Suddenly the joy turned into a worry.
Hard to digest but yes, nowadays weekends are turning into a misery. I get into the 'Cast Away' character on weekends here.

Had i been with my ex-colleagues/friends the least i could have used it to be an audience of 'Intellectual bakwaas' at CCD.
Even though a bakwaas is a bakwaas, not every bakwaas is digestible. There has to be a 'frequency match' for the bakwaas too

Its been four months since i returned to Pune i have hardly enjoyed the stay so far.

So finally decided to do some random act and booked for a 3 day trekking with my room mate.
Chakram Hikers Club from Bombay (Now i too prefer calling it Bombay)

The thrill was i was going to join people whom i don't know.
Far better than sitting at home and realizing on Sunday noon that another set of days went past with nothing out of it.

There had been a lot of thinking and talk of recession and layoffs.
Firstly: I badly wanted a 'break'. I wanted to disappear from my known world.

I am not going to share about my trekking but few things i experimented in those 3 days
Secondly: I wanted to get into the unknown group, to be part of that group.
I didn't wanted to be an invisible player of the trek
My observation so far says that it takes more than a friendly approach to get into the circle of people here.
So i just wanted to try and crack that.

Thirdly i wanted to tune up myself that i am going to enjoy every bit of it regardless of what may happen. (Call it self-hypnotism)
Lastly: Myself too being a reserved kind i wanted to try a personality makeover for this period.

At the end of the trek, i succeeded in second and fourth task and was moderately successful in first and third one.
Trek was exhaustive. We had been to Rohida and Rajgadh. A halt on Rajgadh for two nights was memorable.

It refreshed my memory of sleeping right under the stars and staring at them for hours,thinking nothing.
This was the first time i really felt happy about the poor network connectivity of my cell phone.
None of team members were able to use their cell phone, except a couple. i would say it is a rare sight.

The team was diverse. Had people from varied backgrounds starting from a 8th std kid, a blackberry user IIMA grad, a film maker to an advocate.
Not bathing for two and half days, drinking water which could be termed as sewage water stared at my "Hygienic Me".
But breaking patterns is fun many a times... The pattern of day-to-day activities.

Commitment, forced

Okay i did not expected that i would have to start watering the plants.
Its not that i hate doing that...but why on earth would i take up such a responsibility.
It simply contradicts the rules of a carefree bachelor's life.
As i moved to this rented house, the owner requested me to water the plants he maintained in his balcony. I had to reluctantly agree for this new DAY-TO-DAY activity.
I wasn't ready to take up the blame for their death.
As expected i missed watering the plants for the first two days.
Slowly i started thinking about them...
Third day i tried hard to remember and watered them. I felt like i saved few lives..:)
It gave me a sense of fulfilling my resposibility.
Somehow after that, i have started watering them every alternate days
After every watering i feel like i have saved their life for few more days.