While I was going
through the pictures in my mobile phone, I was struck by this one picture
and wondered why people stack rocks?
This stunning location is famously known as Pebbles beach is nuzzled at a few kilometres away from the Bimmah sink hole, Muscat and it offers beautiful, picturesque views of serene sea with plethora of colorful stones at the shores.
We visited this place with our friends in the month of December. By
seeing those smooth pebbles, children started stacking them, few fell down and
few stood yet they didn’t give up until they made it to a certain height where
they felt like, this is it and satisfied. It was fun watching them.
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One thing, I know that this activity improves one's concentration and patience. And I was happy watching children enjoying doing this.
But, when this question of why we stack stones popped up in my mind, I
browsed in internet for reasons and to my surprise or being unknown to the
facts of it, I was fascinated to learn these new things about stacking.
- People
who go for hiking stack rocks and guide the other hikers towards the right
path. However, misplaced stacks may lead to off trail as sometimes
hikers might do this stacking for fun or to release stress/ strain.
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A pile of stones can be used to represent
how things grow and expand i.e change over time in a variety of ways.
- There is
one spiritual meaning of stacking rocks: As the rocks stand on top of one
another, it can give us a message of unity-” Unity is strength”.
Another interesting finding is, In
India, there are places like Ladakh, Uttarakhand where we can find this stack
of stones. It is believed that this practice of stacking stones is a way to
worship or gesture to ask for a wish or good fortune for the person stacking
them.
Whatever
the reason may be, I love to stack stones and have fun with my friends.
What about
you?
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