[Before reading below post, understand that it may contain thousands of spelling/grammatical mistakes but instead of pointing it out try to understand what I really want to say:-) ]
Trekking I heard this word quite late - when I was in College, yes this is true. I'm the only child of my parents so ultimately the life wasn't so easy when your parents are watching you all the time, I do not blame them for this but this somehow made me 'Not much into Adventures' kind as I always did what my parents used to think is right for me *Sigh*And obviously going for Treks or over night stay at any of my friend's place was never in my parent's 'To Allow' list for me! Let me clear one thing - I'm not blaming my mom dad ;-) They did what they thought was Okay for me.
Being the only child of my parents is very cool thing as I never had to share anything with anyone. I used to get everything and anything which was New. But these cool things turned out to be problematic for me, when I completed my college and stepped in to the Professional Life. Then I started realizing things - it was very difficult for me to share things earlier. I used to be dominating over little things. When I was in college my friends - they adjusted with me, my behavior. But in professional life - people make you realize that 'Dude you ain't a kid anymore, no body is going to listen to your tantrums' and slowly I started learning the things - I would say I started understanding my behavior and myself.
So how does Trekking come in between???
Well I did my First Trek when I was in Senior College during Sept - 2009, it was at Duke's nose. I had been to this place twice but still it scares the hell out of me :-( Till now I have been to 5/6 treks and every time while returning back to home I promise myself that I won't go to trek again! Reason - I feel trekking is risking your life for an adventure!
Photography is a thing which attracted me most because I Love the feeling when every time I click something, imagining something and when the image comes out to be just so perfect than what I had thought! This is one of the reason that even when I'm scared of Trekking I go there, just to click some shots ;-) Conquering fear you see! :-D
The most important thing which I love about trekking is, every time I happen to meet new people from different cities, communities, professions and what not! I really love meeting new people, talking to them regarding anything and everything and trust me this helped me limiting my Dominating nature - because you just can't expect everybody to listen to you and tolerate you when they just know you hardly for some hours. People management & behavior handling - you get to learn it!
It's difficult to climb the mountains without the team, people from your trekking group they help you when you need some help while climbing a cliff. They make sure that you don't feel left out of the group - they talk with you, laugh with you, take care of you if you suddenly feel ill. If you are lagging behind of group, people cheer you up and make sure you pick up the pace And eventually by looking at others you understand the real meaning of Teamwork - team bonding.
Most important thing - Time management, you understand the value of it during treks! Ask me, I missed a train just by a minute and I ended up going back to home. In trekking you have to travel with a group of people and you have to make sure that you don't spoil somebody Else's day by not coming on time. You also need to make sure that during treks you walk with people, try not to rest more because of which ultimately the Schedule of trek collapses and you have to bear the consequences that may include No place to seat in a train because you just missed the one which was reserved for you or worst case you just don't get proper vehicle to return back to the base station just because you wasted too much time and driver flee because he thought you may not come back soon. So you gotta watch the watch baby ;-)
During my first trek I was reluctant to share the food and water which I had bought with me, reason - I never did it before,sharing wasn't in my list :-) And yesterday I was carrying extra water bottles in my sack just to make sure that my group mates don't feel the scarcity of water.I felt awesome when we all were trying to help each other, share things just to make sure that all reaches to the destination, safely!
Alertness - you really have to be alert every time when you are trekking in mountains that have a slippery path or a stiff patch where in you wouldn't take chance by being careless. The moment you make a mischief and the next moment you will probably screaming for help! But this doesn't mean you have to be serious all the time without having fun. You will understand by yourself when to have fun and when to get back to your senses and start walking ahead :-)
Responsibilities - when you ask your friends to join for a trek, they look at you as someone who knows what it takes to do trekking. So you have to be very careful while they are with you, taking care of what they need during trekking and making sure that they walk by all the difficult patches and reach to the destination - safe and sound :-)
This is what I think from my past trekking experience, I'm totally clueless why I scribbled all this at 2 o'clock in the morning :-)
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