As I sit here with days to go before I leave for India and plenty of time to think, I can't help but ask myself why India again? A fourth visit? Why? There is so much of the rest of the world to see. What about Thailand, Vietnam, South America? The rest of the world? The answer is simple, because my heart is not telling me to be there......Yet anyway.
India as a wise French woman once said to me "Will take you in or SPIT you out!" I love that as I have seen India do that to many people. She has taken me in and every time I go she takes me deeper into her rich culture of heady spirituality, Incredible food, vibrant music, beautiful diverse landscape and the chance to meet truly amazing people both Indian and others from all over the world. I love it even more because it is NOT Ibiza or Torremolinos or any other two week package tourist destination (unfortunately with the exception of Goa, a place I am beginning to avoid).
I grew up for the first twelve years of my life in Nigeria. Unfortunately (with hindsight) I was sent off to Boarding school in England from the age of eight and so I experienced my first violent clash of cultures. One minute free to run around naked in the bush the next being beaten for rebelling against Victorian methods of discipline and education.
While I am in the U.K. I suffer. I'm on antidepressant pills for the rest of my life (as are about a third of the population). I find the general attitude in this country appalling. Capitalist, consumerist. badly educated, selfish, shallow and morally bankrupt. The politicians revolt me from all parties. They support terrorism while pretending to fight it. Everything here has been sold. Every idea is monitored, political correctness rules the day whereas the truth has been so distorted hardly anyone can recognise it any more. The police work for the corporations. The NHS is being destroyed. Fracking is happening despite massive protest. The poor are getting poorer and the rich don't give a fuck. There is no sense of community any more. Of course to question this immediately gets you marginalised and ostracized and if you get too good at it you just disappear.
It is a crime to think outside the "accepted social narrative" What kind of a world are they trying to create for us in the west? It's a dictatorship and all the pieces are slotting nicely into place. It will soon be too late to speak out or fight back and we have walked stupefied by our own selfish desires right into this matrix.
Deep breath, Aah. Now When in India I am a small fish in a big ocean and I can grow. It is so different there that to survive you have to be naked leaving all preconceived ideas behind as they just don't work here and only then can the magic begin.
So I am excited and a bit nervous as Mother India has my respect. What will you teach me this time I wonder? I am ready.
India as a wise French woman once said to me "Will take you in or SPIT you out!" I love that as I have seen India do that to many people. She has taken me in and every time I go she takes me deeper into her rich culture of heady spirituality, Incredible food, vibrant music, beautiful diverse landscape and the chance to meet truly amazing people both Indian and others from all over the world. I love it even more because it is NOT Ibiza or Torremolinos or any other two week package tourist destination (unfortunately with the exception of Goa, a place I am beginning to avoid).
I grew up for the first twelve years of my life in Nigeria. Unfortunately (with hindsight) I was sent off to Boarding school in England from the age of eight and so I experienced my first violent clash of cultures. One minute free to run around naked in the bush the next being beaten for rebelling against Victorian methods of discipline and education.
While I am in the U.K. I suffer. I'm on antidepressant pills for the rest of my life (as are about a third of the population). I find the general attitude in this country appalling. Capitalist, consumerist. badly educated, selfish, shallow and morally bankrupt. The politicians revolt me from all parties. They support terrorism while pretending to fight it. Everything here has been sold. Every idea is monitored, political correctness rules the day whereas the truth has been so distorted hardly anyone can recognise it any more. The police work for the corporations. The NHS is being destroyed. Fracking is happening despite massive protest. The poor are getting poorer and the rich don't give a fuck. There is no sense of community any more. Of course to question this immediately gets you marginalised and ostracized and if you get too good at it you just disappear.
It is a crime to think outside the "accepted social narrative" What kind of a world are they trying to create for us in the west? It's a dictatorship and all the pieces are slotting nicely into place. It will soon be too late to speak out or fight back and we have walked stupefied by our own selfish desires right into this matrix.
Deep breath, Aah. Now When in India I am a small fish in a big ocean and I can grow. It is so different there that to survive you have to be naked leaving all preconceived ideas behind as they just don't work here and only then can the magic begin.
So I am excited and a bit nervous as Mother India has my respect. What will you teach me this time I wonder? I am ready.
