It was mid-April of 2022, when I was going through a period of high-impact situations involving both work and family. For more than a week I was under continuous and enormous emotional stress as things kept changing rapidly. Though I tried to maintain my composure, there came a point in time one late afternoon when my resilience was shattered.

When nothing seems to work and a sense of having lost it all prevails, we tend to look for some source of inspiration to weather the storm raging inside us.

So, I took a break and went to hills at the Altamont Pass, just a few miles from my office, to be amidst elements of nature. Sitting alone silently and fighting my emotional upswings, 15-20 minutes went by when I noticed the wind starting to pick up, clouds zooming in, and turbulent scenes starting to unfold in front of my eyes. It was as if the nature was creating a canvas mimicking and reflecting my emotional state.

The rapid movement of clouds were so dramatic that the photographer inside me instinctively opened the bag and set up camera gear. For the next couple of minutes rest everything happened involuntarily. In an automated way I captured a number of frames, one of them being The CHURN. In less than 5 minutes the whole scene folded back and serenity & calmness prevailed. The threatening clouds vanished as fast as they had come in.

These 40 minutes that I spent at the hill, nature came to my rescue and showed me the way forward to contemplate and deal with challenging situation that I was faced with. It showed me that after every storm comes a clear sky. AND, when I left the hills that evening, I was calmer and a stronger person.

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