I wish I could carry this clarity with me.
'In my dreams the dead are inanimate objects. Spoons, teacups, doorhandles. I wake and wish I could carry this clarity with me.' Ilya Kaminsky (from memory so I may have mixed up the wording a little!)
I've been thinking about sweet home Chicago a lot the last week! Yes, I'm excited to come home.
I also want to cry every bouncing bus ride I take. I want my mode of transportation to always be windowless, with more people on board than actually fit, with too loud Indian pop blaring, and everyone hanging on for dear life. The CTA seems so mundane from here.
Things are coming together over here. I feel at peace. I've been working on loving everyone no matter who they seem to be, and existing simply, without emotions tied into everything. I was talking to a new friend last night about how after traveling for 6 months or so you fall into it, the routine and day to day travel mode. After that you just ride it out...he's halfway through his two year travel break. I feel like maybe its taken me a little longer to get comfortable but here I am, bumbling around India like a champ : ) And I feel like I've at least begun to see what I think I came here for. I'm also beginning to wonder how I am going to be able to carry this clarity with me.
I'm also signing off for the month. (Not like I have been SO on top of my blog the last few!) I am heading to Nasik for my yoga class and there's no internet. I am finally going to be incommunicado!!! See you in March : )-
I've been thinking about sweet home Chicago a lot the last week! Yes, I'm excited to come home.
I also want to cry every bouncing bus ride I take. I want my mode of transportation to always be windowless, with more people on board than actually fit, with too loud Indian pop blaring, and everyone hanging on for dear life. The CTA seems so mundane from here.
Things are coming together over here. I feel at peace. I've been working on loving everyone no matter who they seem to be, and existing simply, without emotions tied into everything. I was talking to a new friend last night about how after traveling for 6 months or so you fall into it, the routine and day to day travel mode. After that you just ride it out...he's halfway through his two year travel break. I feel like maybe its taken me a little longer to get comfortable but here I am, bumbling around India like a champ : ) And I feel like I've at least begun to see what I think I came here for. I'm also beginning to wonder how I am going to be able to carry this clarity with me.
I'm also signing off for the month. (Not like I have been SO on top of my blog the last few!) I am heading to Nasik for my yoga class and there's no internet. I am finally going to be incommunicado!!! See you in March : )-
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