An unforgetable trip...in many wayz...

For the first time I’ll be sharing my experience with you…many of you may not be interested but this I am doing for my friends…


This trip is a perfect example of…how sometimes the worst situations can turn out to be the best for you…as weird as this sounds what happened was even weirder…it all started when we decided to go on a trip to nanital…you may be thinking that we were planning this for months but actually all of this happened a day before our departure…unsure of what is going to happen and more importantly who is going to come???...

The whole planning was going on between me and my brother…yes my brother…it was actually his plan…and me & my friends just barged in, ruining his plans of having a “safe” vacation. Some how we managed to gather 6 people making entries at the 11th hour. All 6 of us were not sure of what this trip will turn out to be…specially because some of us were total strangers…I had 2 of my closest friends and of course my brother, who I only knew as my brother and never thought of him as real person…so he was new to me too…

The journey started pretty well everybody seemed to get along, reached nanital…settled down…went to the zoo…saw a really really big owl about 3feet, that was something. Anyways we returned to our hotel around evening, ordered snacks, somehow forgetting that one of my friends, whom we lovingly call Aloo Bhonda (Hindi for bread roll), had severe stomach ulcer problem.
So she started having this massive stomach ulcer attack, and trust me when I say this…I had never seen more terrible site then this…she was in a hell lot of pain…in reality she is a very strong person and to see her cry and shout like a little baby just broke my heart…none of us had ever witnessed anything like this. We tried everything…I could feel her pain and it surely wasn’t a pleasant feeling. She would go in and out of consciousness and at a point we thought we had lost her, we gave her medicines but nothing seemed to work…we decided to take her to the doctor…but how??...
The biggest drawback of this place was that..everything closes by 8pm i.e. no rickshaws, cars, cabs nothing…I hurried down to look for a vehicle, our hotel manager was very generous and helped us through this and soon we had somebody’s car ready to go…
Now the next thing…we were on the 2nd floor that meant around 80 stairs down. I was talking to the driver down stairs and others some how managed to get her down 20 stairs to the reception…but still 60 more stairs were left…all of us were around the same weight and not in a condition to carry somebody our own weight down…specially because we couldn’t touch her stomach because of the ulcer and the staircase wasn’t helping in anyway…its then that my brother carried her down all by himself…I don’t know how, I really don’t know how but I guess that’s what such situations do to us…we start showing qualities which we never thought existed…this is what happens when you don’t have a choice…
So here we were sitting in the hospital, the doctor gave us the prescription, me and my brothers friend, we ran to the chemist as if our lives were on stake…I never thought I could run that much…but Porno…that’s what I call him…he didn’t stop, it was his energy that kept me going, I thought if he could do this for a person he just met…I have to do it for my best friend…we almost ran our lungs out…
We gave her the medicines and soon she was peacefully sleeping…me & porno went to the market to get the other medicines while others took her back to the hotel.

I got to see different colors in everybody…PORNO…he was pretty scared when we were going back to the hotel…which was a 45min long walk…yes he was scared and a bit emotional…either because he wasn’t strong enough or he cared too much to let anything happen to me…he took all the precautions he could to take me back to the hotel safely…it was pretty dark and not much people were around…at times he would freak out…even at a sight of a dog…meanwhile I tried calming him down…and later we made fun of all this and we still do…he is a nice guy…

My brother or FARISHTA…atleast that’s what he calls himself…???...he showed some real courage which atleast I never thought he had…he handled the whole situation almost single handedly…telling us what to do and what not to…this side of him I had never seen…since we were kids…we always fooled around, did all kind of kidish things even after growing up and never took each other seriously…but this changed my whole perspective towards him…I cant believe I am saying this but today more than anything else we are good friends…

GUPTAJI or Deepti or Nishu …we call her by many different names…I don’t know why…she is a quiet person…but during this situation she silently did something very amazing which went unnoticed…amongst us I guess she was the one who remained calm the whole time…putting all her fears aside she only focused on what is to be done…I don’t know about others but she was the main reason I wasn’t freaking out…this is something I thought she could never do…silently supporting all of us…


The best moment came when our aloo bhonda started smiling only after an hour of all this happening…all the faces in that room lit up…and came a big sigh of relief…surprisingly…later that night we played cards as if nothing had happened…we made fun of the whole situation and had a blast in the rest of the trip…enjoying every moment as if it was our last…and today I have grown so close to all of them that its hard to even spend a day without them around…so we somehow using different excuses meet daily…I got to know my brother better…my friends better…and found an amazing person as my newest friend.
I can’t really forget sitting in the middle of the lake in 2 boats and playing truth & dare with cards…or watching a movie which I think didn’t even have a story, it was like watching random scenes from different movies…hahaha…but I still loved it only because we were together…

The whole experience was educating…I used to imagine what it would be like to be in such a serious situation…but now I know…and I know I can handle it…
Its situations like these that make you a stronger person…and you start valuing life even more…its Gods way of telling you…it’s not a joke…
Love life…love people around you and most importantly love yourself…its beautiful…