Yes, I am back from India. I didn't want to leave. I remember sitting next to Ben on the plane ride from LA to Portland, about ready to land at PDX...I turned to him and said "I already miss it".
India was beautiful. I had an amazing time. I saw so many things that I had never seen before and some of it pretty shocking. The people were friendly, traffic was chaotic by American standards, cows and dogs everywhere, people walking in and throughout the traffic, camels walking alongside the roads, people sleeping on the sidewalks, women tapping on the car windows at stoplights begging for money or food. The first day we got to India, after Blair and I got settled in our room and I looked out of the hotel window, three floors up from the street, and I said to Blair "I feel like I'm watching National Geographic". I seriously felt like I was living out a picture that I've seen in that magazine.
There are so many things I could write about. But it is difficult to put an experience like that into words. India is a place where you just have to go...and truly experience everything that it has to offer.
I miss it very much. I'm not a very emotional person, people close to me know this. But after India, just thinking about my time there and how much of an impact it made on me...makes me tear up. And the songs Ben has written over the past years that he's been in India, and I've heard these songs several times, they have a special meaning to me now...they have become personal. These songs bring India back to me. I didn't realize just how much I would miss it. It physically hurts that I'm not there anymore. 3 weeks was not enough time to be there.
I can't wait to go back.
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