Your Favourite Adventure Activity

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts long. Until there is no pain, there can be no gain. Sports is one such activity that teaches us to never give up. It teaches us perseverance and builds up patience in us. There are many categories of sports today.
Team sports, individual ones, duo sports, indoor and outdoor sports, water sports, etc. There is yet another category of sports- adventure sport. My favorite category is the adventure sport with a special liking for rock climbing, hiking, and trekking.
These two sports rise up my energy levels and I can never be tired of it. Both of these may be my favorite sports because I belong to the hills of Uttarakhand, with beautiful meadows and surroundings. I love these two sports because they have a lot to teach than they seem to. They are more than just adventure activities for fun.
Rock climbing is not just an adventure sport. Its intricacies teach us the basic values of life. No matter how hard the rock is, they're always ways to climb up. The sport teaches us that no matter how hard a situation seems to be, it always has a solution to it.
No problem comes without a situation. The only qualities that are needed all the way are that of patience and perseverance. If rock climbing is done in a group, trust in the person taking the lead. This is the best thing that rock climbing teaches us. In life, when we work as a team, trust is very important.
Hiking and trekking are other adventure sports that I enjoy the most. The very idea of walking along the long meadows, green grass, mountainous terrains, admiring the beauty of nature, with friends excites me the most. I find it appealing because there are no electronic gadgets that hinder the experience, no worldly things that can distract us from admiring the view of the place.
I love these activities because these are the times when we really care to look at how the natural world looks. These are the times when we realize that capturing the memories of a place in our hearts is greater than capturing those in cameras. These are the times when we actually notice things that we have been ignoring.
My brain is at peace when I think of taking up these two sports. These are the reasons why these two constitute to be my favorite sports.

By: Parth Agarwal

School: S.D. Public School

Class: 8th