Even just writing it makes me stop and wonder how I made it to this place in my life.
If you've met me over the past few months, you've heard how India has always been one of my dreams.
In Girl Guides, when it came time to dress up as someone from a World Centre, I always chose Sangam, the World Centre in India.
I've owned a sari since I was 12 (a beautiful red one),
I took veena lessons while I was in university and I even tracked down an Indian woman to give a group of friends and me a lesson in Indian cooking before I left Kingston.
I can't tell you exactly what enchants me about the country. Perhaps it is that there is so much about it that to me is unknown.
Certainly, I've always been drawn to the colour, the music, the food and the overwhelming history that the country holds.
And in some way, I hope that living abroad, looking at the stars from a different angle, will help me on my journey.
And here is my challenge.
Tomorrow I leave Canada with no expectations, only an open heart.
In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing
Apollonius Tyanaeus quotes (Neo-Pythagorean)
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