from 14th march, 2006.
on board flight to delhi, on the way home.
AH!
TODAY'S FINALLY HERE!
ON BOARD 9W353 TO DELHI...LEAVING THE HEAT, THE STRESSFUL ROOM, THE NOSEY NUNS, THE MONEY SHORTAGE, THE MAGGI DINNERS, THE POINTLESS LAUGHTER...LEAVING A LIFE BEHIND.
IT FEELS GOOD...FOR NOW!
DELHI'S COLD. KATHMANDU'S PEACEFUL AND INVITING. EXAM MARKS DON'T COME OUT TILL APRIL AND THIS TIME THEY'RE EXPECTED TO BE GOOD ANYWAY...THAT'S LIFE!
NOW MY COLD WILL GET BETTER, MY ULCERS WILL HEAL, MY PROJECTS WILL GAIN PACE, MY PRODUCTIVITY WILL GROW...A NEW LIFE WILL BEGIN- FOR JUST THE NEXT 3 MONTHS. AND THEN, ANOTHER NEW LIFE.
ITS FORGIVING, THIS NEW LEASH ON LIFE EVERY FEW MONTHS. IT ALLOWS YOU TO LEAVE BEHIND MISTAKES YOU MADE, TAKING ONLY THE LESSONS THEY TAUGHT; GIVES TO TIME AND CHANCES TO HEAL, AND CONTEMPLATE, TO GROW IN NEW DIRECTIONS- EVERY QUATER OF THE YEAR...AND SOMETIMES EVEN MORE OFTEN!
THESE TIMES OF TRANSITION ARE TIMES OF POSSIBILITY, TIMES OF REGAINING BALANCE, TIMES OF GROWTH SPURTS....AND, SOMETIMES, LIKE GROWING PAINS AT 20!
CHANGES, WE KNOW, ARE ESSENTIAL; AND THIS GENTLE PROCESS OF SUBTLE CHANCES IN LIFE AND LIFESTYLE EVERY FEW MONTHS KINDLES A SPIRIT THAT GROWS TO LOVE CHANGES, TO VIEW THEM AS SYMBOLS OF HOPE AND GROWTH, TO ALWAYS KNOW THAT CHANCE MEANS SOMETHING BETTER, SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO.
AND SO, WE PICK UP OUR LIVES ANEW EVERY FEW MONTHS OR SO..MONTH AFTER MONTH AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR; AND WE GROW TO LOVE THAT FEELING OF LIBERATION, AND ITS EVER FORGIVING, EVER ENRICHING CYCLE OF GROWTH FOLLOWED BY CHANGE FOLLOWED BY REGENERATION FOLLOWED BY GROWTH...
AND SOMEWHERE IN THIS PROCESS, WE FIND OUR LOVES, OUR LESSONS, OUR STORIES.
MUMBAI 2006.
7 comments:
i luuuuuuuurrrrrrrrvvvvvvvveeeee this! somehow, i never thought of it this way... all those months of transition... i always thought maybe they'd leave us incomplete...like we were neither fully belonging in this place or the other.
this pits it in the right perspective.
thank u!
i love the last line.
......like i do most of your last lines :p
lol.
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"AND SO, WE PICK UP OUR LIVES ANEW EVERY FEW MONTHS OR SO..MONTH AFTER MONTH AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR"
you've become an author. i've quoted you in experimental film.
i love how it sounds. like we're some freewheeling travellers living our lives in a multitude of cultures and lifestyles, feeling at home in all of them.
A.
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