India is one of the most life-changing places I have ever visited.
In the Silence are all of the beautiful sounds of your soul.
In India, I did a 10-day silent meditation retreat (Yes, I can stay quiet for longer than 5 minutes, LOL) where I could reconnect with god and reflect on my life.
It was an experience that I am so happy to share, so please listen in because I know there will be something for you in my journey.
India presented me with the most remarkable contrast I have ever seen between wealth and poverty.
I left that country more appreciative of the United States than ever before.
I found myself in the back of a bicycle cart driving down the roads of old Dehli. My tour guide looks like a Westerner because he has albino hair and blue eyes thanks to a recessive gene in his family. I’m glad to have him with me as we travel the back streets, even though no one treats him as a local.
You look around; it is a feast or a terror for the senses, depending on where you look.
The smells of trash, spices, Indian people, Tuk Tuks, pollution, Indian food, and the flowers offered at the temples.
It’s not a smell I can quite describe, but more like a cornucopia of smells happening all in sequence and assaulting the senses simultaneously.
Some smell magical, and some smells I would rather pass on.
Then you look up, and you almost wish you didn’t because all of the buildings range in their stability from one home to the next. Some “homes” I wouldn’t consider more than a shack, and others are 6-10 stories tall.
Some buildings are a couple of years old, and others are hundreds of years old.
About 20-30% of the buildings look like the leaning tower of Pisa and are about to fall over....... and yet they don’t.
On top of all this madness, an electrical wire forest is growing out of the buildings, ready to cause a fire at any moment.
The telephone poles look like trees, and thousands of wires come out of the buildings like vines on the trees. There are so many wires it is unbelievable; they look like leaves waiting to spark a fire at any moment.
My surroundings are one
potential accident to another, and from the eyes of a personal injury attorney, it looks like one potential lawsuit after another.
Then you have the drivers who are all about 1 inch away from hitting each other but never do. They do not care for lanes and do not abide by any rules.
The flow of bicycles, motorcycles, tuk-tuks, cars, pedestrians, animals, and everything in between floods the streets with a consistent and constant sound of horns.
Some horns are loud, others quiet, but some are as whimsical as an orchestra.
The truth is there is always a honk or a beep, like a wave of sound in the streets.
This was simply a day in the madness, and if you want to hear the rest, please chime in for my journey through the chaos!
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