Every trip is an adventure!

This is a long pending post, at-least glad that I sat down to write it now. Going to keep it short, sweet and simple :)

We had been to the Wenatchee River to do white-water rafting, a couple of weeks back - a great experience by itself. We had our own apprehensions, both of us being non-swimmers. Luckily enough for us, we finished it all fine without having to fall off the raft.

There were 4 people in our raft(including us) and our guide was Swoony, who instructed us and steered our raft with ease along the rough waters of the river. The river was running lower than usual, which worked out advantageous for us.

Swoony in action

Swoony struck conversations with us every now and then. Someone asked him if he rafts through this river everyday, when he said from May until September he works as a rafting guide for a couple of different companies, working on the same river. He also works at a cafe close-by. When it is off-season here, he goes to Thailand and does the same kind of work there. Of-course, he gets paid comparatively lesser, but he says he likes to go to different places.

He steered the raft as though it was the first time he was doing it. Such was his eagerness and enthusiasm. Every time he did something, he explained to us why he did it and also talked about how the river used to be at different times of the year.

Half way through our journey, we stopped at some place, where they gave us sandwiches and fruits. All the guides of the rafts waited until we were all done, and they ate what was remaining, after which they did the clean-up and we continued rafting again.

I asked him if something(don't remember what), what he replied made me forget what I asked him in the first place. He said,

Every trip is an adventure, every meal is a banquet, every tip is gratitude.

I fell flat. How could he do the same thing over and over again, yet have so much enthusiasm, eat a very simple meal, yet appreciate it so much and not show faces irrespective of whether someone tipped him or not?

For me, it was lesson learnt. I am a person, who gets bored very easily, but I understood that getting-bored is not an excuse anymore. Enthusiasm is the need of the hour. More than what you do, its all about how you do it. After all, all of us ultimately want to be happy and satisfied. Then its better to stop brooding and start loving what each of us do on a daily basis.