Passion for Life!

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard


Just last week I had the pleasure and the honor of attending my friend Abhay's wedding in India. It was everything and anything I have asked for and even more. The vastness of this country is beyond what one can take in during a mere 8 day visit but from what I have seen /experienced I left the country wanting more.

Every time I visit a country , everything about the place hits me more than just a simple ' visit' . I catch myself wanting to sit with the grandpa at the corner, to play with the kids running around barefoot, to take hours and hours watching ppl walk by from the corner restaurant. Sadly enough, 8 days did not give me the chance to do all that. A part of me feels uncomfortable taking pictures from the surface without knowing the stories of what I am taking pictures of. Of course , there are tour guides that tell you why this building was built, why ppl do certain things but somehow that does not seem enough for me. Ugh why does this world have to be SO BIG? hahaha ( i might be losin it a bit)

Anyhow, after I got back to site, I caught myself in even bigger funk than I expected. A huge part of me felt so empty. And the more I think about it, I think I can tell you exactly why that is- PASSION! Have you ever asked yourself " how many people around me/even myself are living with the genuine PASSION FOR LIFE (everything and anything that defines life) . Right now, I live in an environment where people do not really show exaggerated degrees of any kind of emotion - excitement, happiness, love, sadness. Everything is very ' on the surface' . Often, you do not see people cry when they say good bye (knowing they might not see each other for years), you do not see people get overly excited from news of a new born baby, you do not see people hug, hold hands to show a slight sign of 'care'. So after being in India, with people that do everything with such exaggeration I felt empty being at my site (and my puppy being sick did not help the situation either).

So here is to living life with the PASSION TO LIVE!

---- “If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you." ------