Travel, one of life's greatest teachers

Traveling, whether with your tribe or alone, opens your mind to new perspectives and broadens your horizons. Traveling offers varied experiences that translate into phenomenal learnings. Sometimes, it opens one's mind to possibilities, that weren't apparent earlier. Sometimes it reintroduces you to things that you've known all along, only haven't paid attention to in the past. It challenges you, pushes you out of your comfort zone and eventually makes you grow as a person.

Quoting Pico Iyer "We travel initially to lose ourselves and we travel next to find ourselves", sums up our travel experience.

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Ladakh with a few of my friends. Despite the hostile landscape, the contrast of the Ladakh region is mesmerizing. Tall mountains with different hues. A beautiful river with clear water flowing adjacent to sand dunes. A sky that has the most picturesque blue tone, suddenly turns ominous with cloud cover. Pristine green colored lake, turning blue as the clouds shadow the Sun. And finally, abundance amidst lack of resources.

While there, I had learnings that have reminded me of the important things in life. With encouragement and creative lending from my wonderful wife, I have decided to translate these learnings into short videos and share them here as a series. I am listing down the 8 lessons I learnt. Will be creating visual stories around these lessons using pictures and videos from my trip and releasing one every few days.

• When in a situation where you have to decide to walk away or go forward, go with your instinct.
• Bad roads lead to Beautiful destinations
• Train Hard, Fight Easy
• Yodha ki Pratigya
• Harmony of Water
• Listening is under-rated
• A good book is a great companion
• Don't take yourself too seriously, noone else does

Here is the first one.

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