Saturday, March 24, 2007

Trip

Its been a month since my arrival at my new home. St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA. Here today, gone tomorrow. I arrived here smack towards the tail end of winter and so I had the chance to have a go at skiing and snowtubing before spring set in. I took one too many tumbles and falls that day in the snow. While lying on my back I remember grabbing a handful of the white powder and staring at it. My mind drifted back to my feet sinking in the sand dunes of the deserts in the UAE, the monsoon rains pouring over me in the tropical forests of the Western Ghats in India and now this. Its been an amazing journey.

Then there's the trip that I take everyday. I put on my Sony headphones. Click on my favourite house track and let it rip up my brain cells. I close my eyes and see the world rise and fall with every beat. Snippets of life both real and unreal dancing before my eyes. My hands and feet find a new master and I become a slave. It feels so good to lose myself in something so pure, something so vibrant, something dripping with so much uncertainty that I am not bound
anymore. Perhaps this is as good as it gets!