Amazing Life - A Spiritual Story
A truly amazing life is one of diversity, where challenges meet beautiful moments, and with less of the challenges and way more of the beautiful moments, the constructs of an amazing life live and breathe.
At 20 years young I stuck a rather large (from neck to butt) red backpack on my back, and traveled the world on an around-the-world plane ticket, with my serious boyfriend of more than 3 years. He later became my first husband. This was an awakening journey, with the kind of diversity that pulls a whole life into the trip of “around the world in 80 days” which was how long it lasted. We both started the journey on underground trains on the outskirts of London, excited and more than a little chubby from a good appetite and comfortable Jewish families who loved to give us another helping. We landed in India several hours and a day later.
The air smelled of spices, and people slept on the roundabouts in Bombay then, now renamed Mumbai these days. It changed in 1995 because India felt that Bombay reflected the British influence, while Mumbai was to pay tribute to the goddess Mumbadevi.
We had left a hot train filled with people not speaking to each other, wearing business suits that spoke volumes of their class distinction in quality and fabric, to the hot, spicy air of busy streets and every man working to get their cut of the action, with suggesting our first hotel. We slept in a beautiful old colonial structure that first night, where the western toilet had obviously confused the previous user, whose shoe prints were still strongly imprinted and established on the seat. This made me smile as I wiped and cleaned it for us.
The sounds, the heartbeat and the brown, weary faces of those lands touched my heart. The lives were far simpler and less comfortable than anything I would ever know, and my compassion grew in this first land of several that I was due to visit. There were times when I smiled and experienced the sweetness and warmth of the people, while at other times I wept and felt no matter what I gave in coins, or any gifts of food or charity, it was a massive bottomless pit of need I couldn’t fill.
I left India to continue our journey around the world, with deep gratitude for my amazing life. I wanted to remember forever all that I’d seen and experienced, to remind myself on what seemed like difficult days, how fortunate I was to have the chosen life I was living.
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