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E very journey starts with a motto. By looking at nervous me in one of the restaurants in Kathmandu, Chef said “Marna hi he to kahi par bhi meraga, a chat yah ape neeche girke yaha pe bhi marega, Lukla me flight land karte time bhi marega. Mene kabhi EBC pe gaya nahi lekin suna he experience bahut mast rehta karke. Agar itna maut se darega to kabhi naya kuch try hi nahi karega aur naya experience bhi nahi milega.” (You can die anywhere. If this ceiling falls down, you will die right now, if the flight doesn’t land in Lukla then also you would die. I have never been to EBC or Lukla before, but, I heard from many the great experiences they had. If you are scared of death so much, then you will never try anything new.) Tenzing-Hillary (Lukla) Airport- 527 m runway 15 seater planes to and from Kathmandu to Lukla  Motivation often helps. My problem was different – altitude and lack of practice. I had no prior trekking experience. I was nervous about 12 long day trek and altitude. I had ...

Motivation First, it started with nursery, school, college and then university. Ah, half of my life was gone with academic books and rules. At the end of the highest degree in academia, I somehow started feeling that I wasted my life in here and was clueless about my future after my degree. It is very unusual, at my age, to not to have a set goal. Too many questions, enquiries and advice were irritating me every day. I was not in a whirlpool of thoughts or mid-life crisis, but I was wondering whether this is what life is? -  grades, jobs, wedding and kids. It seemed like a pattern set by the society which is streamlined from birth to death. If anyone doesn't follow this- then there's something wrong with that person. In PhD, I had developed a particular layer of skin which responds to nothing. Hence, I was happy. I happily rejected a job offer and an interview call after my exams.  I just wanted to get rid of this cycle and see what happens.  After having a discus...