Change is an inevitable part of life. Every moment is a new moment, different from the last moment or from the next moment. No matter how much stuck one feels, still one is changing at a subtle level. If one understands and accepts changes that happen within oneself and that occurs outside in an open and receptive manner without being biased or judgemental about the kind of change then he will be able to enhance his life with every passing moment. The moment one attaches a negative connotation to a change and perceives it with pessimism, it has similar repercussions within oneself and in the life as a whole.
In the countryside of Zakopane, a young boy of 14 years, seeing his father’s mountain equipment and old photographs, some framed and some in an album demanded his ailing bedridden father that he wishes to learn mountain climbing. The father was an acclaimed mountain climber himself but an accident and the death of his wife, while climbing the Tatra mountains for a romantic date on their 10th anniversary shattered his mountaineering dreams and made him close the mountaineering academy, the one he had opened as a young Geology graduate from the University of Wroclaw.
That fateful day came in front of his eyes and he got scared and numb. After regaining his senses, he assertively told his son not to think about climbing at all. But the little boy was adamant and started crying loudly. He tried to pacify him but all his efforts went in vain. His limitations made him agitated and he was about to throw a paperweight at him. But he saw his wife’s photograph on the opposite wall, smiling, bubbly and ethereally beautiful. And he stopped, keeping the paperweight aside. He remembered what his wife used to say “Chris, a true mountaineer never fears death, and if he dies in the lap of the mountains, his existence is blessed”.
His eyes welled up and tears started rolling down his eyes. He called his son with a sense of conviction and grit. Chris asked his son Martin to go and join an academy and learn mountaineering. His son learnt mountaineering, grew up and reopened his father’s academy, where Chris started conducting lectures on the skill of mountaineering and explaining the innumerable stories from folklore, from hearsay and from his own experience and the relevance of the mountaineering gear, fossils and other stuff in the museum built by him long back.
A change is always for the better. One bad and untowardly incident does not mean that one leaves one’s passion and become so insecure that he doesn’t let his near and dear ones to pursue that same passion. There was a time when Chris had decided to shut down his academy and sell the items in his museum to earn some money and later send his son to a graduate school, so that Martin can get a plush secure job in the flourishing cosmopolitan cities of Western Europe. But destiny had something better in store. And that one sentence from his wife Adina changed his life completely.
Bio: Pradeepti is a banker by profession but she loves words more than numbers. Intrigued by the fine nuances of life, like music, art, literature and love. She loves cooking and dancing. Children make her joyful to the core and spirituality and philosophy define her existence.
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