Having survived several trips far east, I decided its time I actually sit down and take stock of my life..Take stock of where I am and how do I define it..In all this travel I have lost the sense of "home", "belonging" and its strange when every place suddenly seems like home or not home! I wonder if it is the food , or the place or the people that one usually relates to?
Each trip has sorta brought about bigger realizations of how most boundaries cultures are so human made and time based. You start to do something and in some time it becomes habit and in much larger time with more people joining the clan it becomes culture! I had never fathomed enjoying or relishing Chinese food and craving for Chinese dessert! I don't know if this is what people call being converted, but today I wouldn't mind indulging in the above. Its amazing to see how not so far away from home land there is a place which seems like this factory churning out almost everything that is a commodity far west..Intricate hands hired for their innate abilities of finery...soldering packaging and turning circuit boards to fine mouth pieces! Or be it in buildings stocked with yarns and yarns of thread..they are all there providing employment to many and artifacts for use to the rest of the world. I have lived in places far out from humanity and in settlements so full of life and people..Going past such variation in rapid speed can cause some amount of dis orientation and one can actually feel mis placed. But then suddenly when the last and final boarding call is announced and the plane takes off....it feels like the journey is taking me back..Back home? I dont know! Back to my balance amdist the chaos!
Anyways now I am back and seems like I would be for a while...before I go trotting, changing and lost in quest of home again!
3 comments:
dear "ms.asia-pacific" as the guy on the plane called you, the world is but your oyster; (and i mean, the kind you don't necessarily eat..however much u're travels may inspire you to do otherwise :))
Anyways.. Oysters and pearls and particles of sand...different and yet part of the same.. may your travels take you far and keep you centred always. :)
And you forgot about the "chabbi"..:-)
A bit of "indian-ness" in all that mad travelling and exotic oyster-octopus-jellyfish (ewww!!!!) eating, is quite endearing, dont you think?..
Thats when one would probably realise home exists somewhere.. in our hearts.
And yes.. good to see you in these virtual parts again!
[tey]: Hey I am certianly not adopting that amrica of yours..not after it gave me such a tough time understanding it!!
[sowm]: You are awesome with words sweetie!"Paarls of wisdom" in classic Y R Eeshtyle is what I need at this pt in time! But hope the travel gets me to your parts sometime soon! And hello..miss asia pacific??
[rt]: Yeah "chabbi" and "painti"! Home is a confusing term!
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