All alone

Alone we live .... and alone we die .

Something changed me, when I was a child...

I remember, when i was a child, i used to wait for my summer vacations to start when we used to go to our grand parents place in Kangara,H.P.
Kangra is a beautiful valley set in the midest of the himalayas, but the thing that made it all the more special was my nani nana's house.
It is a huge house with a number of rooms, enough for two three families i guess.A big garden outside with a lawn where we used to play. there was a large area that had a lot of fruite trees like orange,guava,plums, peaches and for some i do not even remember the name.
There was a different place called 'ghrala'(called so in our 'Pahari' language) at the backside of the house where there were enough rooms for cows and calves to stay, they had there open space to go around too.
...ooh........well thats not exactly where i wanted to take you......
It was in the month of December,we i.e me, my sis, my bro and my mom were travelling to Kangra from Shimla.It was around 6 in the evening i guess. The weather was quite cold and we were eagerly waiting for the bus to reach the Kangra bus station where probably our mama ji would be waiting.
We were in half sleep when with a sudden jerk the bus stopped.openeing our eyes in eagerness to get to know wat happened we started peeping outside as the thers were doing. Somebody shouted "cheetah cheetah, see!!". We jumped out of our seats to see where they he was pointing his finger, as my mom grabbed us so that we may not fall out of the bus window. Our excitement was growing as nearly half of my body was outside the bus window, but we were not able to see anything.
And then i saw something. It was a small animal, as if color burnt, comming out of the bushes. It was the Cheetah. I had heard of stories in my previous visits that in the evening the cheetah takes away the children who trouble their mothers,naturally my mom had told me that. As the bus and the people inside stood still the cheetah walked past the road from one corner to the other slowly. Then he vanished into the bushes again.
The bus started and after about an hour we reached our destination. Along the way i was silent ( normally u wont believe i can ever be silent ).
I was terrified.
I was quite a brave lad, but that incident just got in my mind that i saw a real Cheetah moving in front of my eyes in open.
All day and night i used to carry a small folk (that used to have 'chat') or small fruite knife in my pocket. Never in my life i was so alert and so active that i had become.
I became cautious of where i was, wat i did.
I used to take care of where i was going in the dark night.
We spent a month there ,and i don't remember a single day when i didn't have a small something to protect.
This may be not a very big thing as you may imagine, but it changed me forever.
I understood the meaning of 'caution'.
It is u who has to protect urself no one else will.
This is a world of mixed people, we have to be cautious, we have to be alert.
..... Don't be Afraid, but be Careful .......

Why is Life Wat it is?

" Do not run through life
so fats that you forget
not only where you have been,
but also where you are going.

Life is not a race,
but a journey to be savoured
each step of the way."