Dear Friends….....Welcome to Adventure Zone.
It’s
a place where you can face your fears, an area where you can easily jump from
50 feet as if you are having shake.
I
visited there with my colleagues since it was a team party. We hired a cab,
assembled team and started our journey from office. After some time we
celebrated birthday of my Tl and a colleague. It’s our team tradition is to
celebrate birthdays of everyone falling in the same month on a single day. Then
we had to have some fun, so we started dancing starting from TL to everyone,
one by one, all were dragged to the dance floor. TL started break dance, saying
he knows only that. It seemed to me as if he wanted to be in lime light. As no
one had perfect idea, where this place was, so we called owner of that place
and after few moves here and there, we finally reached Adventure Zone. It was a
big place owned and maintained by a retired Major. He himself architecture that
space and created many adventure games like rappling, climbing, shooting etc. He
gave us a contract which stated that whatever happens to us, we take sole responsibility
of that and no one else. We filled it without fear, since at this time many of
us didn’t knew what we were going to do.
Now
major started explaining about the games first was climbing. Climbing was safe
but tough. The task was to climb a 40 foot high wall using few stones on it.
This game really requires stamina as you have to be continuously going up,
searching stones and pushing your body up. I don’t want to be ‘muh miya mitthu’
but I was the first person who tried this game and I was the only one who
completed it-somehow. Although I hurt myself a little bit, but enjoyed. There
was a time when I felt like I will fall, but there were safety ropes which
saved me.
Another
adventure was Rappling, it’s a simple task but courageous one. You have to go
up, using stairs and come down using ropes. Now here people were afraid as they
have to jump from a 50 feet high building with the help of ropes. All of us
know that the ultimate truth is death; still we were afraid of dying.
And in this task, we had to overcome our fears-fear of dying, and then only one
can come down. There are two types of rappling-backward and forward. In
backward we look upwards towards the sky, so it becomes easy to jump. Most
people tried this easily including me. Obviously, I had lesser fear than most
in our team. Let us move to most interesting game-forward rappling, in this
task we have to look ground from 50 feet high building and jump, now this is
really scary. At this time, only one thing comes to your mind-Fear and
most people wants to return without jumping. As I am always eager to face my
fears, I ran to major and said, “I want to try forward jump”, he looked towards
me and said “no one tries forward, till he has not completed three backwards”. This
is because after doing 3 backwards we become habitual of it. I said “ok, I’ll
come after my 3rd backward”. When I again saw him, he said “are you
sure you’ll not return through stairs (because many people went upstairs to try
forward rappling, but came back without completing it)”. They tried, but once
we are at the verge of jumping and look down, our mind gets trapped by fear. At
this point, our body is controlled by emotions not by mind, even if mind says
that there is 200% guarantee nothing is gonna happen, then too, we are afraid.
I was not afraid as rest of the colleagues, I said to major, “I am sure that I
am not gonna come back through stairs”. When I was waiting for my turn, I had
little fear watching others getting little hurt and stepping down through
stairs, but I had confident that I can do it.
Finally
it was my turn to face my fear, everything was cool and steady till I saw
ground, for a sec a thought came in my mind to back off and at the same time,
my leg slipped, I thought that I am gone, but I was alive and then I made my mind
that this is the only way to get down and I am doing it. I jumped and came down
through rope only. It was awesome moment; I thought whatever I have been
through has given me the courage to come down from that building. Now I have no fear my dear.
After
this we played for an hour in swimming pool. Once completing all this, they
dropped me to complete my shift, so I was awake for complete 24 hours, 12 hours
in adventure zone and rest in office. Well this might not be a big deal for
many people but believe me after doing physical rigorous exercise; it is very
difficult to sit in front of a dumb screen.
Now
I am habitual to that also, since my days have become upside down, I work and
eat according to US. I work in night-eat pizza and sleep in morning, as if I am
a US Dog . Even my client has mascot-a dog.
I
think this is enough for this adventure, stay tuned for next…
