Three and a half years ago, I embarked on an new adventure – moving to India with my husband. I was filled with emotions that typically accompany change. I was ready. I had mastered some tough challenges after switching careers and wanted something else, something different. A new challenge, excitement, a chance to live in a place totally different to what I had known. I had to shake things up and when we were offered an opportunity for a couple years in India there was no question – sign me up!
A mentor once told me, if you fail to learn from life’s attempts to teach you, life will continue to try – only using a bigger stick. Setting off for new adventures, I was confronted with the reality of my choice. My preferred coping mechanism – to direct experiences with precision and planning only brought about harder lessons – in a nutshell, I needed to get out of my own way and relax.
Once I stopped trying to control, quibble, and define India on my terms, I fell in love and actually started to experience my new home. The lens of my perception shifted a bit. Serendipity began to show itself. The inconveniences became opportunities to practice learning: about openness, negotiation, sustainability, small pleasures, and patience. I paused to witness – the people who graced my journey, the amazing sites offered daily, and the occasional extreme situation or experience. Living in India was a gift; stripping away many things I thought I knew for certain, changing my perspective and allowing me to develop a deeper sense of wonder. For those lessons and more, I am eternally greatful.
The pictures in India Memories are some of my favorite photos. Designed to reflect the contrasts, beauty and unpredictability of my experience, this is one of the ways I am saying thank you for each moment I was given in India. I hope you enjoy them.
“It blunts its sharpness. It unties its tangles. It softens its light. It becomes one with the dusty world.” – Tao Te Ching Translation by Wing-Tsit Chan
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