My Dear Munnar by Jayesh Boorle

What makes you happy?
When was the last time you felt you exist ?
well after a very long time i felt my existence, and i want to share some of my memories to you.
Because ENGINEERING did not make me happy, I started a part-time YouTube channel in the hopes of having a second career option. I took engineering in 2020 and lost 18 months of engineering online, which made me happy -, and when we returned to campus for the first time after finishing our three semesters online, it felt strange. Despite the fact that it was a regular day in engineering, we all had bounced back and were very busy with pending labs after studying one semester offline which felt like more than 18 months online…and after a heavy offline semester, we decided to go on our first engineering trip!!

Life…many say we need to do that or this , but for what ? social recognition or for others..try to start living for yourself without causing pain to others…With Tank full of disel, over loaded anxiety and excitement we started our trip. Things were fine we rented a car at night and started from coimbatore and reached pollachi.

Had our dinner and it was around 10pm and We were on our way to our final destination of the day, Udumalaipettai, where we parked near the town’s main bus stop and decided to sleep in the car itself. That was our first mistake on this trip; I couldn’t sleep in the car, so do half of us , were roaming on the empty wet roads.

When your willpower and efforts are honest, even Mother Nature will stop bothering you…the moment we started in Coimbatore it began to rain (7:00pm), at one point we were unable to see the road and considered giving up, but we chose to stick to the plan, we drove very steadily, and it was raining continuously throughout our journey until 11:30pm.

Mother Nature spared us from the continuous rain at 12:30am, so we started our day 1 trip to Munnar at 1:30am. We entered at the Ghat section by 3:00am and entered the tiger reserve, but there was a herd of elephants obstructing our way, so we waited for 30 minutes before reaching the first hair pin bend. The tragedy in our classic voyage has showed up.

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We are a group of 8 individuals who studied together for 18 months online and 6 months offline and we don’t know how we trusted each other for the self-driving trip in the the middle of the night in a dense forest route, perhaps this is called the bond between engineering friends, they say smoking makes them feel light, I never smoked in my life but I found that travelling makes me feel light.

After crossing the elephants we reached our first hair pin bend , it was around 4am and it was pitch dark,As we approached our first hairpin turn, our vehicle came to an abrupt stop in the middle of the bend; we all exited the car, and our pal tried to ignite it, but it did not, so we pushed the car to some extent, and our kick start attempt was successful.

Within 200m, we encountered our second hairpin bend, but this time, as expected, the car came to an abrupt end, and the curvature of the bend was so sharp that we couldn’t push the vehicle any further, and the road was extremely slippery over there, so we slowly reversed our vehicle and placed it aside, and it was pin pin pin drop silent with the weirdest sounds of wild animals and the darkest surroundings I have ever been in. We never imagined our first engineering trip to become such a disaster.

There were very few vehicles passing through our route and many tried to help us, but the car was always silent, it was a dead network zone, we couldn’t dial the emergency contacts, we were roughly 20km away from the forest check post and thought we could split and half of us would go to the check post, but a truck driver insisted we not do such things, since an accident occurred two days before on these roads where a biker was hit by wild animals and killed on the road

We were struck for more than 2 hours in pitch dark Tiger reserve roads…the only thing I waited for during the time of vehicle breakdown was sunrise, at 6:30am we stopped a vehicle which was exactly our model of car, by a miracle our vehicle ignition was on again and we are literally done with vehicle at this moment.

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We didn’t give up despite many obstacles on this trip, so we given up our vehicle at Udumalaipettai and took a bus to Munnar. We were astonished to witness the sudden dense fog and cold temperature in mid-afternoon when our bus began to reach the hills of tea plantation, and the temperature had dipped to 16 degrees and the visibility was less than 30 metres.

And we were all delighted that we didn’t give up on ourselves and thus lost out on witnessing God’s Own Country’s green blissIt was one of the most beautiful roads I’ve ever traveled on; the fresh tea plantation, the aroma of tea in the breeze, it was like green heaven on the hill.

After arriving in Munnar, we proceeded immediately to Kolukkumalai, where we booked our camping, which was at 5400ft, and we were thrilled. The next day, we returned to our campus, passing via Munnar and a number of waterfalls and lovely tea plantations.

I would conclude that I felt my existence when exploring new destinations and decided to explore as many as possible in order to make life-long memories.

Thank you, Munnar, for the memories you gave me; they will stay with me until the end.

Have you ever attempted to experience your own existence? You should be able to answer youself!.

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