Mountains are cool to climb

In Colombo you don’t find mountains. If you happen to live in a hilly area like Kandy or Bandarawela or NuwaraEliya, there are mountains enough and more than needed. When you look out of a window, beyond houses and curved roads perhaps, you will see mountains one after another spreading out. Carefully placed. Beautifully patterned. And they come in different colors too. Some are green. Some look brown, dark or light.  In fact if a mountain burns they turn into ash color.


If you are visiting a friend in the hills or travelling to such a place, you will realize that you are driving up a mountain.  Driving up a hill isn’t easy. A driver should not be very fast in a mountainous road. He should be competent to take control over speed and direction in winding mountains. He / She shouldn’t hug the center line of the road. If you are the center line and a center hugging vehicles comes from the opposite direction, they may over react and cause accident. So whoever gearing up or even driving down a mountain should be patient and watchful. Mountains are creepy. Climbing can be scary. Have you ever wondered if a vehicle fell off the mountain when taking a curve or approaching the crest of the hill?  Have you ever thought how life is and was for those living up on hills?  How those people in mountainous cities and those with no vehicles get to the market or  school or to  hospital, you have thought? How would it be when it is too cold up there? How do they warm themselves?

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Living up on a hill top is not easy as much as driving or climbing up. Think of a mountain you have climbed. Not by vehicle, but by foot. Some of you would  have never climbed a mountain. Some would have had the urge to climb but was afraid to do so. They know however the view up there is fantastic. It is something like you want to become a Marketer, and you know Marketing is going to be interesting though you don’t want to become one. You tend to think the way up to become a Marketer is hard .




When climbing a mountain your final stop is the hill top or its peak. And it is always important to decide which route you are going to take. If you take a careful look there are infinite numbers of routes to the top. Which path will you take? Are you going to take the one that many have done before and the one that is easy to follow? Or a secluded route?  A route less traveled can make a difference.  Your view can be different from others. Your adventures are different to another who climbs the same mountain.



You will take off gently. But as you climb up the trail gets harder, naturally. Your legs and lungs may hurt. They might even cry out stop.  Some of you may turn back and give up. Because you think you will never see the end. But some will dare the risk to climb up.


Life is like a mountain. There are ups and downs. When you go up, the way is steep and tiring. But there is one moment when your breath returns normal. The aching muscles are gone and lungs are no longer burning. That is when you reach the top. It is cool to be on top of a mountain.  It is cool to get wrapped by the cold winds that sweep away mountains. It is cool to see how everything down there looks  minuscule. It is cool to see the cloud movement, so clear and close. It is cool to see how birds dive so fast. It is even cooler to lie down a bit and fall a sleep.