Another Short Incomplete Story

How life can change in a short time?

It goes through lots of Ups, Downs, Plains, hills, forests and lot of other things.

I came to this conclusion, recently when I went to Manipal from my home town Mysore.

It’s about 325 kilometers from Mysore to Manipal. I went ALONE on my bike. The YAMAHA ENTICER. ALONE!

I had been to Madikeri on business and I finished my work by around 12 in the afternoon. Then suddenly I had this brilliant idea of going to Manipal.

I am known for my wacky ideas. Crazy they are and a sudden surprise to everybody most of the time. You should ask Babu about that. Babu being the guy around me most of the time when I get these weird Ideas.

Biking has been a passion. Is a passion and hopefully will continue to be a passion as time takes us towards wherever we are destined to be.

I didn’t own a bike when I was doing my Engineering. So I sort of felt bad about going on outings with my friends. They invited me but I didn’t like the idea at all. It’s whole different scene when you OWN a bike.

I am an Engineer! Well Almost!

Don’t ask me about that. That’s a whole story in itself.

So coming back to where we started, the journey to Manipal. I say Journey because I learnt a lot of stuff. Most of them useless, some useful.

The whole Idea was wild. Considering the condition of the roads, it was Risk!

The risk factors would be that I would alone and if anything happened to the bike I would be lost in the middle of nowhere.

The roads were BAD! I cant find any words better than that to describe the condition of the roads. PATHETIC. That’s sounds good in a bad way.

The fact that I was on a National Highway didn’t help much.

I had my lunch in Madikeri and set out for Manipal.

Madikeri is a lovely place. The mountains with their lush green cover make it a sight to marvel at. Also you can feel the clean air. It tickles your lungs. That’s good tickling.

Anyways as I started from Madikeri, the roads where pretty good. Pretty because of the tree cover. Good because the roads where good.

A few kilometers on the roads grew from bad to worse. And so it continued. Whenever I thought the roads where going to be good it turned out that at the next instant, the roads would be bad.

So after a point of time I stopped of thinking of the roads.

There were other things that had to be thought about.

Things like WORK, WORK and WORK.

How is it that when you go out on a vacation or a holiday, WORK manages to follow you in one way or the other?

Is it only me who’s having this problem or is it common to everyone?

I’d like to know that.

Let’s FLASHBACK Four months.

One among the many unemployed youth of India. Yes me! I was!

I was too worried about my future and what I was going to do and all that.

It’s one thing to know what you wanna do and work towards that goal and it’s a whole different picture figuring out what you wanna do!

For starters, just imagine yourself being in that dilemma. It’s becomes so confusing, you end up wondering most of the times “what the HELL am I doing ON EARTH?”

I had no IDEA as to what I wanted to do!

And then there was this beautiful tag line from IDEA CELLULAR “ An Idea can change your life”.

Yeh sure! An Idea can change your life. But if you aren’t getting any, where on earth do you go and find them?

The best tag line according to me is that of Honda. It says “THE POWER OF DREAMS”

I’ve been dreaming all my life. So WHAT?