How every travel experience has the potential to leave an indelible mark on your soul. Through encounters with strangers turned friends, meeting new people from different backgrounds, unfamiliar landscapes, travel opens doors to new perspectives and fosters a sense of empathy and curiosity.
In this episode we have with us Siddharth who shares his travel story and how this one trek changed his perspective and personal growth.
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[00:00:00] Hello Sunshine, and how have all of you all been?
[00:00:17] You know I read this quote, it says, each new day is a blank page in the diary of your
[00:00:22] life.
[00:00:23] And the secret of success isn't turning that diary into the best story you possibly
[00:00:28] can.
[00:00:29] You know embracing life through new experiences always helps us grow.
[00:00:34] And it's one of life's greatest teachers.
[00:00:36] It pulls us out of a comfort zone that we may have gone and happily sat in and plunges
[00:00:41] us into the unknown.
[00:00:43] So now whether you explore a new country, a new city, a new neighbourhood, a new hobby,
[00:00:50] you always end up learning something from that experience.
[00:00:54] One of the greatest lessons you learn is that we need very little to keep us happy.
[00:01:00] And it's not the cars or the phones or the clothes or the watches that make us happy,
[00:01:06] it's enjoying every moment for what it is.
[00:01:09] We learn not to sweat the small stuff.
[00:01:13] When you learn something new, you open yourself up to a world of human interaction.
[00:01:18] So when you're learning a new hobby and there are a group of people out there, you end
[00:01:23] up interacting with them.
[00:01:24] Maybe you go out for a cup of coffee, maybe you go for a glass of wine and they end up
[00:01:28] talking to you about their lives and you end up making a new friend.
[00:01:32] We're so busy with our daily lives that we forget to appreciate the little things.
[00:01:39] And today we have with us Siddharth who's going to talk to us about an experience that helped
[00:01:43] shape the way he thinks and the way he is today.
[00:01:46] So hi Siddharth how are you?
[00:01:48] Hi Sima I'm good.
[00:01:49] Okay so tell me that you wanted to share something really interesting with all of us today.
[00:01:54] Oh yeah, this goes back to like 2018 when I got to Gango 3 for a trek and I've gone
[00:02:00] a lot for trekking to a lot of places but Gango 3 was a new experience because it's
[00:02:03] a big place and they don't allow a lot of people to get in.
[00:02:07] And yeah, I was an incredible experience at least like journey wise in terms of making
[00:02:13] you realize a lot of things by yourself where you are currently, where you're placed currently
[00:02:18] what you're doing and also these kind of places make you feel like you're a speck
[00:02:23] of like does compare to the universe because when you work in an urban setting area, you
[00:02:29] are so occupied with your work.
[00:02:31] You don't give yourself enough time to think for yourself which is a little I wouldn't
[00:02:38] say like I wouldn't say problematic but it sort of makes you lose yourself and makes
[00:02:42] you lose your identity to some extent.
[00:02:44] And people lose themselves in the fact that these are your certain priorities and you yourself
[00:02:50] are not your priority which I think is very important to some extent at least giving
[00:02:54] yourself time.
[00:02:55] So yeah, that did give me some time because I was walking it was very euphoric experience
[00:03:00] because you get to see things that you cannot even describe to an extent because it's so
[00:03:04] vast it's crazy.
[00:03:06] So that's fantastic.
[00:03:07] So you learned something new and you did it help change your perspective in life.
[00:03:10] I did it in fact funny story.
[00:03:12] I was kind of dropping out of college at that point and I had to take a call obviously but
[00:03:18] I went there and I realized like I'm not just going to stick to this path like I this
[00:03:23] so many different different roads I could take.
[00:03:25] So it really helped me that really helped me make that decision.
[00:03:29] Yeah, that's fantastic.
[00:03:30] Thank you Siddharth for sharing the experience with us and like Siddharth says when we open
[00:03:35] ourselves to learning something new sometimes like he rightly said you end up feeling
[00:03:40] really humble because you realize how small you are your footprint is in this enormous
[00:03:45] world and you'll understand how lucky you are and how much you may take for granted in
[00:03:49] your daily life so many things that people sometimes don't have.
[00:03:54] And I'm sure you encountered acts of kindness and generosity from strangers to that.
[00:03:59] Oh yeah, yeah, because we stopped like we walked for 35 kilometers continuously and we were
[00:04:04] stationed at this place that we didn't even know because there's nothing works there no
[00:04:08] GPS nothing.
[00:04:09] So we stayed at this tent that they accommodate they said come over stay the night and we had
[00:04:15] I think the simplest food ever like I think it was some really normal I think it was
[00:04:21] Gavar's subzi and it was chapati and that's all we had but we were so full, we were so
[00:04:25] satisfied and yeah people very nice we had like long conversations with people as well
[00:04:29] like as to how a lot of people again they are dropped out of college at left university
[00:04:33] they left their jobs they walked all the way from say Delhi to Gango 3 which is 670
[00:04:38] kilometers from Mahashev Rathri.
[00:04:40] So I was a little surprised as to like how they made the sacrifice how it helped them but
[00:04:46] eventually when I reached the end of Gango 3 which is Gomok, the water was I wouldn't
[00:04:51] say disgustingly but exuberantly cold like it was so cold if like shards of glass going
[00:04:55] into your foot that's how cold it was but these guys just jumped in they came out and
[00:05:00] I think like it really helps you change your perspective like doing that it's a different
[00:05:04] experience altogether.
[00:05:05] I was just like I don't want her hypothermia but yeah it was good it was very good.
[00:05:10] So like Siddharth says when you realize when you travel alone he's made a lot of friends
[00:05:15] and you realize how powerful you are because you realize that you are capable more than
[00:05:20] you actually think you always were and that's what helps you transform and probably have
[00:05:26] one of the most beautiful experiences in life so to conclude this episode I'd like
[00:05:30] to end with a quote which says every sunset is an opportunity to reset and every sunrise
[00:05:36] begins with new eyes.
[00:05:38] All we need to do is be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
[00:05:42] Here's to a fantastic week ahead all of you take good care of yourselves bye for now