Love = Mom
I was 12 years old and my family and I were on our trip to chilly Jammu to visit a temple up very high in the mountains. I was afraid of the climb: the almost 10 kilometre hike up the mountain. So my parents put me on a horse to ascend to the very top. On the way up a particularly steep horse path, I happened to look back to see very dense darkness of a pine forest. It was beautiful, no doubt, but considering it was 12 noon and the rest of the landscape was sunny and bright, that one glance down was quite breathtaking in a thrilling way. Almost instantly after I saw this dark forest foliage, the horse bent down low; a misstep that could have very easily cost me my life. My heart started beating 10,000 beats per minute and I simply couldn't calm down. I couldn't say anything either as I was all on my own and I had to brave. I was a young girl alone in the mountains and I didn't want to draw any unwanted attention to myself. In another 15 minutes or so we reached the very