To Nepal: India

vrijdag 26 februari 2010

India

India
a man rattles
or is it a woman?
India
A young man passes
and suddenly grabs my breast
I scream
He runs off
he has X-legs
India
the dog of the neighbours howls
a slap, another slap
the dog doesn`t howl anymore
India
a coconut
another one
another one
India
february 35 degrees
a boy with earwarmers
India
a cow with clothes on
India
a naked man on the railroad
men and their gaze
cleaning your buttocks with your hand
giving away personal space
loud oh such loud horns
gods, one for every day
dots on your forehead
monkeys while you`re doing yoga on the roof
vegetarian paradise
meditation at the ganga
guru`s ashram`s sadhu`s shri`s
offering cowdung at sunset
poor people
rich people
and love, a lot of love
India

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why and how - a journey

You don't know what will come because you didn't plan it.
You don't know who you'll meet 'cause you never can.
You only have the confidence that it'll be allright. How,you don't know.
You meet restlessness, impatience, yourself, yourself in others. But also a new peace.
You pull up boundaries. Not out of fear, you just meet them. They're being crossed by people and situations. Sometimes you think until here and not furhter.
You make decisions and you live them.
You walk and your feet walk alone, your head follows and that is so good.
You're not clinging on. Not to people not to things not to thinking. You continue, you look.
You see all the little things that you didn't see before 'cause you were looking for something big.
You breathe and you look.
Where you would normally walk on, you hold still. Even for two seconds longer. You see what happens next.
And fear you meet, fear's always somewhere. You look at it for two seconds longer than before. You see what happens next.
Two eyes, you look at them for two seconds longer than before. You see...
There are no endings, no middles, no beginnings
The day is maybe friday, maybe. Tuesday. 12 pm because of the sun.
Sometimes a Spanish man wants to talk to you all the time. Also that you deal with.
Sometimes it's not going like you want it to go. Also that you deal with.
Sometimes you miss home.
You realise that you're happy. Nothing more.

some inspirations

the book : "led by destiny" from kinga freespirit about her and her boyfriend and their hitchhike journey around the world.

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an anecdote : A 70-year-old man whose wife died a few years ago, wrote her name on the map of Poland in one uninterrupted line and he followed that line cycling, from the northwest of the country to the southeast.

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from Amérıca - Cécile Wick :

"A meadow

You walked, you just went out. You did not leave nor are you heading towards something. Now you take a sip from your bottle, smoke a cigarette, you scan the roadside. You did not arrive anywhere, but you are there. A meadow, a wood, a torn twig, a can in the ditch. You never have been here and you have no idea why you stopped here. Nothing invites you. But the empty landscape hums with everything that you carry with you. While walking out nothing crossed your mind, but now everything seems to catch up. You take the twig and draw something in the sand,without any purpose. Later you won't remember any detail of the landscape but you won't forget that moment."

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"Tears of Bliss" - Narvada Puri

quotes

Resist the temptation to seek novelty and instead seek depth
Anthony de Mello - Sadhana, a way to God

Maybe later?
peculiar and first question souvenirsellers ask you

Is this live?!
Mama, discovering skype

Go east for succesful
slogan on Indian man`s t-shirt

Missing is a nice pain.
Elke, on a note in my backpack

India contains all that is disgusting and all that is noble.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Worrying is the same as chewing chewinggum to solve an algebraproblem.
English Nic with her old ambulance

Afscheid nemen is alsof de conducteur een gaatje in je ticket prikt.
Susan na het afscheid met El en mama.

From now, very up.
Thanos op de Olympos, een uur voor de top.

The feet walk alone.
Thanos tijdens razendsnelle afdaling van de Olympos

Only when we lose what we have do we value it truly.
M.Mazower in Salonica

Never trust the women or the weather of Istanbul.
Serdar, onze eerste couchsurfhost

I don`t like it that they want women to close their everywhere, that only the eyes are open.
Ahmed, bontverkoper en paraglider, over de conservatieve moslims

Blijf beslissen zonder beslist te worden.
uit mail van papa

I read in a book that a more proper name for earth would be water.
Marcus, Australian traveller

Maybe he has the wrong address.
Hakan over orkaan die maar niet komt in Antalya

Clean shoes, lady?
Schoenenpoetser in Antalya. Ik draag sandalen.

To know if someone is really a good person you have to travel with him, do business with him and see him in a high position.
The prophet Mohammed

-Moge je lang leven

-Moge jij zien dat ik lang leef
Turkse uitspraak na niezen

There are different ways to reach one goal, but I believe that mine is best.
Zekeriya about his belief

Don`t kill the day.
Murat`s brother of Camping Murat advises us to go walking while the sun is still shining

Why you go to Iran?
verbaasde Turkse politie aan de grens met Iran

Why you come to Iran?
verbaasde Iraanse man in de rij aan de Iraanse kant van de grens

I will pray to my Jesus for you.
Murat`s brother who considers us as his sisters

That must be Ahmadinejad giving a speech.
F. in de Alborzberg in Tehran na het horen van het balken van een ezel

Life is very little maybe just kind of this.
sms van Hamid, Tehran

I am a what am I
Laura in identiteitscrisis na de zoveelste what do you do?

Your job is holiday?
Shirine in Tehran trying to understand what we actually do.

Time goes faster than me
Bharath, yogateacher and inspirator, Mysore

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