Life in the hills are not easy. It is a slow paced life that brings new challenges everyday. Hilly people have accustomed and adapted thmeselves to fulfill their daily routine. Their life require physical endurance to live peacefully. A visitor visiting hills often enjoy the weather and scenic beauty, but when it comes to face any terrain chllnges like climbing a steep road or walking long ways, they gives up easily. On my recent visit to the hills, I was surprised to see so many youth actively taking part in maintaining physical fitness. Just to cope up the need to meet their dsily requirement.
We have seen many intances how the youth living in hilly and mountainous regions are highly physically active primarily because their environment forces physical effort into daily life. To maintain their fitness level these youth do take out their time for physical activities. While strolling around the market, I stopped at the corner of the road to click the mountain picture, however I was attracted towards the sight of the ground to see so many youth actively playing in the field.
This one is a popular and historic Thodo ground in Solan, which gets filled with youth of all genre in the evening for doing all sort of physical activity. The names appears quite odd to me but learned it has some historical aspect.
The ground is named after Thoda, an ancient and unique martial art and archery game linked to the Mahabharata, where teams emulate a combat battle.
These youth are not spending time in gym in body building rather they are utlising time in maintaining their stamina level through running and regular excercise. There were few battalion of youth running in tandom. If you can zoom the picture, you will notice a number of youth running in formation. As they are in military. They are matching each other footstep and maintaining a same rhythm. While young kids were playing or doing some workout in middle of the fields.
The set up appears quite spectacular. The field is situated at a place surrpunded by high hills from all sides. There were green hills all around and cluster of houses built all over them. It is incredible to see so many population resides in these hills. I am sure the engineers made good use of their educational degree in carving out houses in the sloppy hills. There were many houses that surrounds the ground.
The scenic beauty of the spot and seeing the intensity of the youth made me to seat at the place for a while. I started wondering even if the life is slow paced in these hills, it is much more enjoyable than in urban cities. While the urban kids and youth immersed themselves into fashion, digital life and glamorous style, these snall town kids and youth know how to live socially. Even at the time when social media is active and most of kids are spending time in making reels and contents , these youth took out time for their physical activity. Only to keep themselves physically fit to face the daily life challenges.
While sitting over a cemented platform, I learned from local few people that this ground is very popular in the area. The ground serves as the city's primary central hub for major cultural festivals, public sports, and state-level celebrations. I am trully mesmisrised by the location view of the ground.
Located in the heart of the city, it acts as an essential open space for local sports like football and cricket, as well as morning walks and community gatherings. Apart from being daily used by the youth, the ground host many activities round the year. From annual festival to national or state level ceremony to government back program. It is one of the kind of city auditorium, which organises various activity and in between keep the youth actively through physical fitness in lap of the beautiful nature. I would love to run around too. But getting late does not allow me to stay longer. But seeing the local youth activelly participating filled me with many promises. They are the hope and future of our prospering nation.
In good faith - Peace!!
