Journey to distant lands.

by ZAIN UL ABDEEN (Pakistan)

A leap into the unknown Pakistan

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I was awestruck, dazzled and mesmerized by the huge magnificence, I felt that I was witnessing a divine show of mother nature with all its glory. Guys! its Sharda valley, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, one of us shouted with excitement and joy. For me it was a leap into the unknown and that’s what actually got me there. I was there to volunteer But I find myself shaking, heaven is here, and we are still lost elsewhere. Sunset was approaching and the horizon of sky reflected shades of orange, I with my friend thought its better to have some walk around the lodge to absorb the diversion of the day. In a very pensive mood, he told me (what I was thinking too) that Love is not words and its not obsession with an object and also its not falling down somewhere. It is very often a conscious effort for the beloved, it is sometime expressed and exhibited in mother nature’s work of love and her love for us. “Ah, novelty of Love”, I exclaimed. If you love someone you would definitely ask him “what acts of love can I do for you”, so Sharda valley and other countless landscapes and sceneries are works of love she has done for us. As silence engulfed the valley, we reverted to our lodge the day after day and every interaction with people made us understand that how fragile our quarreling is in this cosmopolitan world. People have their own history and constant fluctuations through which their culture shapes up and through which their meaning and wisdom of life fabricated. On the way back I’ve had an impact on me through the people of this distant land who have less fears and worries, and they believe in pursuit of unknown, a maester of this valley who had experienced climbing tallest peaks of Pakistan inflicted his thought in correspondence with us, he said that in remote areas and far distant lands we not only survived but flourished because unknown pulls us toward new knowledge and new experience. Unknown calls us and we can respond it either by ignoring or acknowledging and this is actually great silent force of our universe. Day after we were on our way back with appreciation of things life bestowed upon us and royalty that we are all born into.