I have to confess that I hate conclusions. It is as if it wont have a replay. It is a period in the history or life. I avoid it!!! I have trouble cutting off! I think everyone or everything that comes into your life, comes for a reason and you can extract life experience and goodness from it!!! It is like ex's; you keep only good memories of it!!! (not too many good though! Otherwise you can't detach from it)
We arrived yesterday and I am suffering from Jet leg. I also can't stop thinking about my last couple days and it's has been hard to teleport myself to my present moment. This cold weather is not what I dream of! It is a vacation idea to me. Well, well, well. that is not what I have learned there. To be imbalanced with yourself brings out the worst on you!
My writing professor has told me that I exchaust my reader. Luck me that she hasn't seen my blog. I would get a D. LOL I know how my ideas are not related and disperse. Unit and coherence will be my future goal.
waw Now what do I think of India? I think that I loved to be misplaced as Indian. My happiness ends up whenever someone tried to speak Hindi with me. HA ha. Their dress code made me learn that no one needs to have tight clothing in order to look good. To Indian culture less skin means more elgancy. (Ceirtanly the saying is not valid for the Bolwood MTV Indian music videos) I also think that I have never seen such a crazy traffic. It can be louder than a concert and it can raise your adrenalina like as a rollercoaster does it. One day in their traffic can be as much harmfull to your lungs as smoking a pack of cigarettes. Well, at least their are working on it as we saw the Reva car parade campaining against pollution. USA only now decided to imported the SMART car from Erurope. "We" Americans are a little better than India solely because we are not so populated so that our polution is not so visible or confined. If I could describe india in few words I would say: India is Ganesh and Shiva, colorful, overcrowded, curry, IT experts, cell phones maniacs, criket, movie production, OM, ayuverda fitness, millions of Gods/deities and languages, king of mints and spices, Saaris and monkeys. India is an enourmeous contry that manage to function with a great variety of culture and a caotic economy.
I am happy that I met so many nice CUNY students. I will miss of you. Sara with her unique loud laugh. My gorgeus German roomie Ana-Maya. The party monster: Julia. My shopping buddy, wonder and Vodka every illness solution: Dharya. The fair director and yoga teacher: Anne. The sweet hippie Jennifer. The big smart baby Sam. The bus dancer and kid's magnet: Lauren. The lovely Domican Lily. The photographer: John. The God's hair donor: Eric. The violin player and wonder: Jeff. The coolest and patient professor assitent: Kurt, my bodygard. We all made it, with little intrigues. Almost none!!! ha ha
I am also Glad that James supported me the most on this adventurous quest of mine. Thanks for all your help, without you I could not have done it! Thanks Lindsey for my beautiful tullips!
I am a little upset with myself in this trip. First because I could not keep up with my daily blog, upseting and boring my loyal readers like Frank, Reggie and James. Second because I could not keep up with my professor's requirement of one daily journal entry paired with one newspaper article. What a pain when all you want is to explore the place! Third I did not learn enough about Budism and neither did I saw any Dali Lama lectures. I still have many questions unanswered. Fourth, I did not kept my newly Indian food exploration, I surrendered and went out to have Pizza hut. ( Shame on me) Fifth, I lost my second Cd pictures in Madurai( I got home with an blank CD) WEll, well, well. Sixth I did not visit my Portuguese ancestrals colony in Goa. I now know that whenever they play an Portuguese dance in a nightclub the entire place wakes up again to join the fun rithm and languague. This is life. Positive and Negative balance each other often, just like the Hindu idealogy. All these facts made me conclude that in order to keep my balance I need to go back to India to study Yoga, budism and visit my fellows in GOA. LOL
Still, all Hindu studies did not converted me to Hinduism. I was strong!!! Even though I respect Ganesh and Shiva, I do not like to Idolatry any type of image. Somehow in the end, most of religion use and worship images. Hindu worship millions of different Gods, since it is a flexible religion, or I should correct myself; it is a way of life, a life style. Christians worship Jesus and various saints. Muslins woship the Alah image. Budism worship the Buda image and so on. Even atheist worship someone involuntariarly now days many times such as famous singers or actors, political leaders or even cars for instance.
I also went to India in a quest of myself and God. Not that God is only there, but I wanted to learn about their believes. I stil think that religion has brought up the major wars in the past which led to the Inquisition or the massacre of Jews for instance. Not to mention the Partion of India and Paquistan mentioned in the beginning of my blog. If so much deaths has been blamed in name of religion why do I want to have one? Why is that Alah is better than Buda? Well I have to believe that God is inside of the peaceful and sane's minds. If you are able to have am internal and external balance you might reach the top of the hierarchy of Motives piramide mentioned by the physcologe Maslows: self-actualization. It is the human being highest need and only few of us actually reach it. One reachs it when:
** Being dedicated to a mission in life that transcends your selfish interests
** Believeing that people are essentially good and trustworthy
** Loving others even when you do not like their behavior
** Being able to accept your own weaknesses
** Feeling adequate to deal with life
** Being able to express your feelings even when they are unpopular
** Being unashamed of all your emotions, even negative emotions
** Being unafraid of failure
WAW doesnt it sounds like a religion speech? Not is not. It is a scientific explanation of how to reach self actualization in which mostly dependes on your motivation to achieve success.
Have you reached it? well I have a long way to get there...
India shows you several paths into it!
We arrived yesterday and I am suffering from Jet leg. I also can't stop thinking about my last couple days and it's has been hard to teleport myself to my present moment. This cold weather is not what I dream of! It is a vacation idea to me. Well, well, well. that is not what I have learned there. To be imbalanced with yourself brings out the worst on you!
My writing professor has told me that I exchaust my reader. Luck me that she hasn't seen my blog. I would get a D. LOL I know how my ideas are not related and disperse. Unit and coherence will be my future goal.
waw Now what do I think of India? I think that I loved to be misplaced as Indian. My happiness ends up whenever someone tried to speak Hindi with me. HA ha. Their dress code made me learn that no one needs to have tight clothing in order to look good. To Indian culture less skin means more elgancy. (Ceirtanly the saying is not valid for the Bolwood MTV Indian music videos) I also think that I have never seen such a crazy traffic. It can be louder than a concert and it can raise your adrenalina like as a rollercoaster does it. One day in their traffic can be as much harmfull to your lungs as smoking a pack of cigarettes. Well, at least their are working on it as we saw the Reva car parade campaining against pollution. USA only now decided to imported the SMART car from Erurope. "We" Americans are a little better than India solely because we are not so populated so that our polution is not so visible or confined. If I could describe india in few words I would say: India is Ganesh and Shiva, colorful, overcrowded, curry, IT experts, cell phones maniacs, criket, movie production, OM, ayuverda fitness, millions of Gods/deities and languages, king of mints and spices, Saaris and monkeys. India is an enourmeous contry that manage to function with a great variety of culture and a caotic economy.
I am happy that I met so many nice CUNY students. I will miss of you. Sara with her unique loud laugh. My gorgeus German roomie Ana-Maya. The party monster: Julia. My shopping buddy, wonder and Vodka every illness solution: Dharya. The fair director and yoga teacher: Anne. The sweet hippie Jennifer. The big smart baby Sam. The bus dancer and kid's magnet: Lauren. The lovely Domican Lily. The photographer: John. The God's hair donor: Eric. The violin player and wonder: Jeff. The coolest and patient professor assitent: Kurt, my bodygard. We all made it, with little intrigues. Almost none!!! ha ha
I am also Glad that James supported me the most on this adventurous quest of mine. Thanks for all your help, without you I could not have done it! Thanks Lindsey for my beautiful tullips!
I am a little upset with myself in this trip. First because I could not keep up with my daily blog, upseting and boring my loyal readers like Frank, Reggie and James. Second because I could not keep up with my professor's requirement of one daily journal entry paired with one newspaper article. What a pain when all you want is to explore the place! Third I did not learn enough about Budism and neither did I saw any Dali Lama lectures. I still have many questions unanswered. Fourth, I did not kept my newly Indian food exploration, I surrendered and went out to have Pizza hut. ( Shame on me) Fifth, I lost my second Cd pictures in Madurai( I got home with an blank CD) WEll, well, well. Sixth I did not visit my Portuguese ancestrals colony in Goa. I now know that whenever they play an Portuguese dance in a nightclub the entire place wakes up again to join the fun rithm and languague. This is life. Positive and Negative balance each other often, just like the Hindu idealogy. All these facts made me conclude that in order to keep my balance I need to go back to India to study Yoga, budism and visit my fellows in GOA. LOL
Still, all Hindu studies did not converted me to Hinduism. I was strong!!! Even though I respect Ganesh and Shiva, I do not like to Idolatry any type of image. Somehow in the end, most of religion use and worship images. Hindu worship millions of different Gods, since it is a flexible religion, or I should correct myself; it is a way of life, a life style. Christians worship Jesus and various saints. Muslins woship the Alah image. Budism worship the Buda image and so on. Even atheist worship someone involuntariarly now days many times such as famous singers or actors, political leaders or even cars for instance.
I also went to India in a quest of myself and God. Not that God is only there, but I wanted to learn about their believes. I stil think that religion has brought up the major wars in the past which led to the Inquisition or the massacre of Jews for instance. Not to mention the Partion of India and Paquistan mentioned in the beginning of my blog. If so much deaths has been blamed in name of religion why do I want to have one? Why is that Alah is better than Buda? Well I have to believe that God is inside of the peaceful and sane's minds. If you are able to have am internal and external balance you might reach the top of the hierarchy of Motives piramide mentioned by the physcologe Maslows: self-actualization. It is the human being highest need and only few of us actually reach it. One reachs it when:
** Being dedicated to a mission in life that transcends your selfish interests
** Believeing that people are essentially good and trustworthy
** Loving others even when you do not like their behavior
** Being able to accept your own weaknesses
** Feeling adequate to deal with life
** Being able to express your feelings even when they are unpopular
** Being unashamed of all your emotions, even negative emotions
** Being unafraid of failure
WAW doesnt it sounds like a religion speech? Not is not. It is a scientific explanation of how to reach self actualization in which mostly dependes on your motivation to achieve success.
Have you reached it? well I have a long way to get there...
India shows you several paths into it!
