Recognizing Rivers as Vehicles!

This may not the appropriate time to write about rivers.. or it is, probably!

Rivers, I consider, are the growth accelerators. They begin their journey as drops, combining other drops with them, forming a giant streams which flow for thousands of miles.

Ulhas River, Vangni, Maharashtra, India

They not only carry, mud, fish, nutrients, soil, rocks.. but essentially transport growth factors for other beings. Literally everything and everyone that comes in the vicinity of rivers flourishes.

Somewhere in Manali, Circa 2017

There is so much that they give yet stop for nothing in return. Infact, they dont stop at anything unless they runout of all things that they to offer. Selflessly giving away everything to the last drop.

However like all things which are too good, they also have a too bad side, thats the way of balance in Nature.

When Rivers have had too much, they sometimes take back with them things which they gave away. Floods are those natural disasters which have baffled animal kingdom. Some intelligent animals like beaver, elephants put up dams so that the flow of water is regulated and diverted, humans on the other hand have always created diversions for their own benefits which have sometimes proven to be bane than boon

Rivers are very important vehicles in Nature. Lets make efforts to keep them running and flowing and growing.

Somewhere in Manali, Circa 2017
Somewhere in Spiti Valley Area, Circa 2017