Beyond That Slope
My friends always called me and my wife, Kunjal, an odd couple. There was nothing normal about the choices we made in life. The benchmark of normalcy is living a mundane, monotonous life without taking much risk and without any great ambitions. That was exactly the opposite of what we were. We were ambitious (we still are) and we are adventurous, sometimes bordering towards recklessness. But the one thing we take great pride in sharing as a common trait in us is that when we fall, we don't waste much time in that state. We learn and move ahead. However, there are a few lessons that have remained etched in our minds permanently. So, we were on a vacation at Mount Abu and since we were completely unaware of the place, we relied heavily on a tourist map. For days we roamed across the place visiting all the major tourist destinations listed on the map. Towards the end of our trip, Kunjal happened to notice the thin lines on the map that were passing through the area demarcated as for...