I guess I am one of those blessed ones who have had the pleasure of feeling a complete bliss in the most beautiful of landscapes in the world. For a very short period of time, but I did and I remember that feeling like it was yesterday.
It was late August of 2005 when I was in the mountains with people I did not know. I had no past no future just that moment with those people.
There are some moments in your life that you just wonder about, for the rest of your lives. You just wish that you could live those moments again and again.
One of those moments in my life was when I was at a hotel at Shogran, Kaghan Valley 2004. I remember arriving at Shogran on a Jeep, taking up a hotel and checking in. At night that heaviest rainfall when we were sitting in that cafe playing cards with friends. The lightening and thunder that I never had seen before. I remember sleeping in the room and waking up to one of the most fresh mornings in my life. The breakfast sitting on the mountain edge. Clouds would gather around the far fetched mountains. Cool fresh air of Himalayas.
The night up in a camp at Pai. The coldest night in a camp at the banks of Saif-ul-Muluk. The phone call I made from Naran when it was drizzling after the electricity went off. The night at Jal Khud.
The time in Naran/Muree/Kalam/Balakot on the other tour. I will always wonder.
I will be looking for any chance I could get in this life when I could, once again, go with no past and future. To live in the moment.
