An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others!
An Insightful Series of Life Lessons That My Life Provided As I Lived Understanding Its Psychology and Philosophy Improving My Mental Health in The Process.
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An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: People Judge You by What You Have Been A Victim To
I took my family to my favorite place in Manali to Marhi on the way to Rohtang pass. My daughter had turned 6 by then. There were huge glaciers in Marhi ideal for practicing skiing. Even otherwise the way from Marhi to Rohtang pass hadn’t been officially declared open for vehicular traffic that year yet.
So, I thought I would teach skiing to my daughter for the first part of the day. My plan was to climb Rohtang pass on foot after lunch and come back before evening tea.
As we were enjoying our skiing, we thought of having a tea break in between. Sipping hot tea in that cold weather was a joy in itself. Some hot snacks together felt like adding cherries to the cake. We got friendly with two honeymoon couples sipping tea on the next table. They very eagerly wanted to visit Rohtang pass but got disappointed as they came to discover it wasn’t opened yet. I told them we would be climbing it up on foot after lunch and they could join us along.
An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: Chilling at Marhi
In the meantime, they got another offer from a van driver who had just arrived there. He somehow had managed a special permit to drive up to the pass and offered them his services. They immediately hired him despite his charges being a lot more than normal taking benefit of his special permit.
Before leaving, they came back to us and said we could also get accommodated in the van if we wished. But I refused saying I still wanted to do some more skiing before lunch. I also added I felt like climbing it on foot. I told them it would remind me my old memories of having climbed it many times in the past.
Anyway, they left in the van heading toward the top of the pass. We went back to the glacier to continue with our skiing. After another hour and a half session, we packed our skis and moved up to the same restaurant for lunch.
An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: Two Couples Hire A Van
By the time we finished our lunch, I spotted the same van at a height coming back down. But as I spotted it, I immediately saw it tumbling down the high ditch. It was rolling down like a ball bouncing high each time it hit the side of the ditch. Within moments it reached hundreds of feet below turning into a squeezed lump of steel.
An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: The Van Rolling Down The Road to Rohtang
Everyone rushed toward the van as it came to a standstill. After the immediate rescue was provided, five people got evacuated out of its remains. The two husbands were found dead, the driver seriously injured, and the two wives hadn’t even got a single scratch. It was because the two husbands were sitting by the door sides with the wives sandwiched between them. Hence their bodies acted like cushions to their wives while they themselves got the entire grunt of the shock.
The wives sat in a state of shock as the bodies of their husbands were laid in front of them. The driver was semiconscious opening eyes intermittently and then closing them back.
They were immediately rushed to the government hospital down in Manali. We too canceled our program to climb up the pass on foot and returned to our hotel. It had been a close shave with death for us too as we might have accepted their invitation and died.
An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: We Visit Another Ski Resort Auli
Three years after this accident, we visited another ski resort Auli a few thousand miles away in the Himalayas. We stayed in the beautiful tourism accommodation that was the only place to stay in that newly come up resort. In the morning we sat out in the sun waiting for our breakfast to be served in the open. There was another family sitting on an adjacent table having their breakfast. We started chatting aloud from a distance.
“This new ski resort has a potential to become one of the best in the country,” I expressed my opinion.
“Certainly yes, next only to Gulmarg!” The family seemed interested in skiing as one of them replied to my comment.
“I like Rohtang and its vicinity as well. It has some very challenging slopes over there,” I added another input.
“Rohtang gives us a shudder. We lost our son in law there three years ago,” he said in a sad voice.
“Three years ago? Was it there in a van accident?” the entire scene came to my mind as a flashback.
“Yes, how do you know?” he was surprised.
I was very much there. In fact, we could have been killed in the same accident as well,” I narrated what had happened.
“Oh, what a small world is this!” he took a deep sigh.
“What about their wives? Did they get married again?” I asked out of curiosity.
“No one is ready to marry them now,” he uttered in extreme disappointment.
“But why?” I was surprised.
An Absurd Life Lessons Story About Judging Others: The Girls Have Ill-Omens in Their Destiny
They say these girls have ill-omens in their destiny. They would harm anyone they marry. Both are still unmarried. We have lost all hopes for them,” his tone went bitter as he said this.
We kept wondering about how people start judging others by what they have been a victim to.
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