Frances went home yesterday afternoon and i think we all feel the vacuum of her absence. Also Mr Shak is gone for 12 days. So it is Kunchok, Deborah and i until Kunchok heads out in the next couple days. I want to go with him but he is going to Delhi first to visit a friend before he goes back home and its quite cold there anyhow. Today we walked to go and see a bollywood movie together. It was in hindi and halfway through the movie they stop for a tea break. kunchok said it was a modern movie. It was about a man and a woman and their lives and how they kept crossing paths but never met until the very end, after they both had meaningful moments of truly finding themselves. I couldnt understand a word of it but i really enjoyed getting to read body language and facial expressions. It was actually really an awesome experience and i would recommend it. It was a sweet story.
After we went to lunch of course and talked for awhile. I like talking with kunchok. Im going to try to get a video of him because its just so hard to describe him. This evening i sat and did some drawing for a tattoo i might try to get while im here and he sat with me and helped and we talked. I asked him to write something for me in tibetan so i can incorporate it into the design. He said his handwriting is not so good and i found that fascinating. It looked like characters to me but i had never thought that just like me or anyone, those characters could be written messily. They always look to neat.
I made a new friend yesterday at one of the shops. his name is Shahid and he is very cute. he lives in mumbai but he is here on vacation and he was sitting in his friends shop when i went in. He clearly thought i was very pretty but he was so genuinly cute about it that it didnt come off as creepy like it usually does. he gave me a purple scarf and he could hardly look right at me. it was adorable. This morning Kunchok and i walked to have a chai and as we were standing there Shahid came up and said that he had seen me and that he wanted to say hello. I think Kunchok got a little jealous. So it's very interesting to be interacting with people between the barrier of language and culture. And its also very interesting to see how much is human nature and crosses over it all. I guess ive been thinking about that today, with the movie and the funny boys. Theres a theme of expansiveness to it. the world really feels so much smaller and hugely more accessible. Finding new tools and ways of navigating has opened me to possibilities. I feel way less boxed in. By my own self and by the idea that i have to live the way i have been ( or Should). I think really what it is that ive found here lately is validation for the way my life has been and the direction i want to take it. Somehow i layered these dumb rules over it all and coming to India has helped me see them and peel them all away. Actually there was a funny little thing on someones facebook today that i thought was spot on. It was some kind of personality test and you picked the imagine that you were drawn to the most and then to read the correlating information about who you might be because of it.. heres what i got:
3. Sensitive and reflective
You are comfortable spending hours alone with your thoughts and rarely become bored. You dislike superficiality; you'd rather be alone than have to suffer through small talk. Your relationships with your friends are very strong, which gives you the inner tranquility and harmony that you require. You love deeply but if someone betrays you it is next to impossible to forgive. You are an old soul, someone who has lived many times before and has seen it all. All you crave now is simplicity and the chance to focus your attention on a meaningful existence.
That last part is what ive been feeling so strongly this year. I really just crave to have a meaningful existence, i guess most people do and it really comes down to what is meaningful for you.
I am happy because i know that i will always keep learning. Im happy because ive discovered so many amazing secrets that have freed me. I am joyful to be in the present moment, to soak it in and ask for more.
Simplify.
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After we went to lunch of course and talked for awhile. I like talking with kunchok. Im going to try to get a video of him because its just so hard to describe him. This evening i sat and did some drawing for a tattoo i might try to get while im here and he sat with me and helped and we talked. I asked him to write something for me in tibetan so i can incorporate it into the design. He said his handwriting is not so good and i found that fascinating. It looked like characters to me but i had never thought that just like me or anyone, those characters could be written messily. They always look to neat.
I made a new friend yesterday at one of the shops. his name is Shahid and he is very cute. he lives in mumbai but he is here on vacation and he was sitting in his friends shop when i went in. He clearly thought i was very pretty but he was so genuinly cute about it that it didnt come off as creepy like it usually does. he gave me a purple scarf and he could hardly look right at me. it was adorable. This morning Kunchok and i walked to have a chai and as we were standing there Shahid came up and said that he had seen me and that he wanted to say hello. I think Kunchok got a little jealous. So it's very interesting to be interacting with people between the barrier of language and culture. And its also very interesting to see how much is human nature and crosses over it all. I guess ive been thinking about that today, with the movie and the funny boys. Theres a theme of expansiveness to it. the world really feels so much smaller and hugely more accessible. Finding new tools and ways of navigating has opened me to possibilities. I feel way less boxed in. By my own self and by the idea that i have to live the way i have been ( or Should). I think really what it is that ive found here lately is validation for the way my life has been and the direction i want to take it. Somehow i layered these dumb rules over it all and coming to India has helped me see them and peel them all away. Actually there was a funny little thing on someones facebook today that i thought was spot on. It was some kind of personality test and you picked the imagine that you were drawn to the most and then to read the correlating information about who you might be because of it.. heres what i got:
3. Sensitive and reflective
You are comfortable spending hours alone with your thoughts and rarely become bored. You dislike superficiality; you'd rather be alone than have to suffer through small talk. Your relationships with your friends are very strong, which gives you the inner tranquility and harmony that you require. You love deeply but if someone betrays you it is next to impossible to forgive. You are an old soul, someone who has lived many times before and has seen it all. All you crave now is simplicity and the chance to focus your attention on a meaningful existence.
That last part is what ive been feeling so strongly this year. I really just crave to have a meaningful existence, i guess most people do and it really comes down to what is meaningful for you.
I am happy because i know that i will always keep learning. Im happy because ive discovered so many amazing secrets that have freed me. I am joyful to be in the present moment, to soak it in and ask for more.
Simplify.
There used to be a Bollywood actress I first heard about through a friend in UK. I know her name started with an A and she is/was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. They had shared some bollywood movie clips with me and the one I remember had a baby in it and they were all singing and dancing. It was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteHad to google her.. Aishwarya Rai
I love the henna on your hand. Pomegranate seeds?
That's pretty cute about the boys. Maybe your next travel will be to Tibet :P