<< Starting this blog in the middle of my trip, in the middle of Agra because my hotel has laptop with keyboard (mine does not work :( and so it goes: >>
REMEMBERING (as someone just reminded me recently;) - thank you! :) TO ALWAYS HAVE
AN INCREDIBLE DAY so here it goes, sleep-deprived mind, in no particular order:
1. When you resist, you get obstacles... When you open up, you get open arms - about me & India (still polluted, crazy, noisy etc but I start dancing to it;), and about many things in life :) or life in general :)
2. Travelling - albeit accidentally - to Agra / Taj Mahal at the end of Durga Puja:
Negative: not a single, even worst class, train ticket back on over 10 trains back so i have to take a long & monstrous journey back on a (bleh) bus..
Positive: Witnessing hundreds of dancing celebrations of happy face painted revellers, costumes, and many other miracles such us e.g. camels right in the middle of the street.. Positive - as usually - definitely overweights the negative..INCREDIBLE!
3. On a side note, camels were fun but sights of goats, elephants, horses, donkeys, cows, buffaloes and dogs coexisting happily & even eating together are a common occurrence now..
4. On a side note 2 (excuse us, no sleep last night - see point 6) - in over 2 months i have spotted literally 3 cats! I was told Indian folks believe if you are very evil now, thou shall be reborn as an 'evil dirty animal' called a cat.. Unforgivable.. Wondering if I should start a miao crusade for my feline brothers... to consider after sleep, but I am ready :)
5. And the event of the day is awarded to Point nr 5:
Children: so open, believing in themselves, fearless, positive! where & why do we lose it? Let s not! I am in the middle of the bazaar in Agra. Two boys: maximum 3 and 4 year old each notice me with wildest smiles in the world, run to me far away from their amused dad, say hi in their own very special way ( children lingo is SO universal, right?) , smile (oops I did it again - how could I not let them do anything now?:) & say: 'photo, photo!' at which point I take an iphone shot of both of their super happy selves & quickly display it to assure them my memory of them was acceptable (far more than that!) They run away even happier & more bubbly The whole area around me is smiling too Children, ha?!
6. No sleep as train so early... but travelling in a taxi through virtually empty Delhi streets was definitely worth it :) Eerie! so quiet.. until we reach the station that is!
6. If you are about to complain & say your life is bad & you cannot do anything blah blah COME TO INDIA where 3 year old kids have the persistence of most boring tele sales guys ( i did not need that elephant key ring but SERIOUSLY, i mean seriously how could i say no? my resistance levels were low, damn it, this kid caught me in my weak moment!) , & it is definitely they harshest environment ever where fittest wins & you can only count on yourself.. YET they keep going and going! INCREDIBLE!
7. Again if you think you have a right to complain & are lazy & do not want to change anything imagine my cycle riksha driver: although he made 10 or more times less than my indeed lazy & moving only his feet fat car driver, he cycled up the hill many times (got lost, oh well - we saw camels, come on! :) with my 8 stone cargo at the back, all the time singing & cracking jokes in broken English :) and SMILING! If you have a toilet & running *(& HOT!! oh the spoiled ones :) water, you are much much better off than him ( and 30% of the world population in fact) so come on, open your mouth as well - especially that you probably have white, not broken or totally black like him, teeth (can you afford a dentist too? you are so rich!!!! :) and SMILE TOO! And if you don't, I swear I ll kick your bum to gently remind you that you are a) being silly b) BLESSED!!
8. And on a serious note, today I saw a cow painted in yellow polka dots.. I mean WHATEVER IT IS, it COULD GET MUCH WORSE ;) (& they say they cherish cows ;) - so come on, SMILE - YOU ARE BLESSED! (INCREDIBLE RIGHT?:)
9. OK on a sad side note, I changed my breathing mask pristine white cotton filters this morning and after a few rides, they are dark grey.. in one day! No, i did not ride a bike.. i was a passenger inside a car! & walked a few times.. Pollution - you think you cannot see it, then you see it and.. NEVER WITHOUT A MASK! (my INCREDIBLE mask ,that is :)
10. Yes we missed the sunset but still the view from a rooftop restaurant was - wait for it - wait for it - INCREDIBLE right :) and I had BANANA CHOCOLATE PANCAKES! which my five star deluxe hotel does NOT have!!! reading an amazing book (' Being Indian' by P. Varma ) and overlooking Taj Mahal...
11. Whenever in Agra I answer the ubiquitous question of 'Where I am from?' confusing the interlocutor by giving them my both nationalities (Polish & British), I do not hear anything about beauty of London town, but nearly every shop keeper hearing my gypsy-life confession, starts... greeting me in Polish! not just one word, but whole sentences! Much much more complicated that those known by friends in UK who have Polish girlfriends or co workers! Either these Agra boys are super multilingual, or some Polish connection here escapes me.. Note to self: To investigate further.. hmmm.. :)
Let me just say it: Sleep please come, then let us have another INCREDIBLE (albeit exhausting:) day!
Happy Monday :)
PS Below the two lovely boys who ran towards me :) See point 5 - definitely a winner!
REMEMBERING (as someone just reminded me recently;) - thank you! :) TO ALWAYS HAVE
AN INCREDIBLE DAY so here it goes, sleep-deprived mind, in no particular order:
2. Travelling - albeit accidentally - to Agra / Taj Mahal at the end of Durga Puja:
Negative: not a single, even worst class, train ticket back on over 10 trains back so i have to take a long & monstrous journey back on a (bleh) bus..
Positive: Witnessing hundreds of dancing celebrations of happy face painted revellers, costumes, and many other miracles such us e.g. camels right in the middle of the street.. Positive - as usually - definitely overweights the negative..INCREDIBLE!
3. On a side note, camels were fun but sights of goats, elephants, horses, donkeys, cows, buffaloes and dogs coexisting happily & even eating together are a common occurrence now..
4. On a side note 2 (excuse us, no sleep last night - see point 6) - in over 2 months i have spotted literally 3 cats! I was told Indian folks believe if you are very evil now, thou shall be reborn as an 'evil dirty animal' called a cat.. Unforgivable.. Wondering if I should start a miao crusade for my feline brothers... to consider after sleep, but I am ready :)
5. And the event of the day is awarded to Point nr 5:
Children: so open, believing in themselves, fearless, positive! where & why do we lose it? Let s not! I am in the middle of the bazaar in Agra. Two boys: maximum 3 and 4 year old each notice me with wildest smiles in the world, run to me far away from their amused dad, say hi in their own very special way ( children lingo is SO universal, right?) , smile (oops I did it again - how could I not let them do anything now?:) & say: 'photo, photo!' at which point I take an iphone shot of both of their super happy selves & quickly display it to assure them my memory of them was acceptable (far more than that!) They run away even happier & more bubbly The whole area around me is smiling too Children, ha?!
6. No sleep as train so early... but travelling in a taxi through virtually empty Delhi streets was definitely worth it :) Eerie! so quiet.. until we reach the station that is!
6. If you are about to complain & say your life is bad & you cannot do anything blah blah COME TO INDIA where 3 year old kids have the persistence of most boring tele sales guys ( i did not need that elephant key ring but SERIOUSLY, i mean seriously how could i say no? my resistance levels were low, damn it, this kid caught me in my weak moment!) , & it is definitely they harshest environment ever where fittest wins & you can only count on yourself.. YET they keep going and going! INCREDIBLE!
7. Again if you think you have a right to complain & are lazy & do not want to change anything imagine my cycle riksha driver: although he made 10 or more times less than my indeed lazy & moving only his feet fat car driver, he cycled up the hill many times (got lost, oh well - we saw camels, come on! :) with my 8 stone cargo at the back, all the time singing & cracking jokes in broken English :) and SMILING! If you have a toilet & running *(& HOT!! oh the spoiled ones :) water, you are much much better off than him ( and 30% of the world population in fact) so come on, open your mouth as well - especially that you probably have white, not broken or totally black like him, teeth (can you afford a dentist too? you are so rich!!!! :) and SMILE TOO! And if you don't, I swear I ll kick your bum to gently remind you that you are a) being silly b) BLESSED!!
8. And on a serious note, today I saw a cow painted in yellow polka dots.. I mean WHATEVER IT IS, it COULD GET MUCH WORSE ;) (& they say they cherish cows ;) - so come on, SMILE - YOU ARE BLESSED! (INCREDIBLE RIGHT?:)
9. OK on a sad side note, I changed my breathing mask pristine white cotton filters this morning and after a few rides, they are dark grey.. in one day! No, i did not ride a bike.. i was a passenger inside a car! & walked a few times.. Pollution - you think you cannot see it, then you see it and.. NEVER WITHOUT A MASK! (my INCREDIBLE mask ,that is :)
10. Yes we missed the sunset but still the view from a rooftop restaurant was - wait for it - wait for it - INCREDIBLE right :) and I had BANANA CHOCOLATE PANCAKES! which my five star deluxe hotel does NOT have!!! reading an amazing book (' Being Indian' by P. Varma ) and overlooking Taj Mahal...
11. Whenever in Agra I answer the ubiquitous question of 'Where I am from?' confusing the interlocutor by giving them my both nationalities (Polish & British), I do not hear anything about beauty of London town, but nearly every shop keeper hearing my gypsy-life confession, starts... greeting me in Polish! not just one word, but whole sentences! Much much more complicated that those known by friends in UK who have Polish girlfriends or co workers! Either these Agra boys are super multilingual, or some Polish connection here escapes me.. Note to self: To investigate further.. hmmm.. :)
Let me just say it: Sleep please come, then let us have another INCREDIBLE (albeit exhausting:) day!
Happy Monday :)
PS Below the two lovely boys who ran towards me :) See point 5 - definitely a winner!
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