Here I go, finally posting the article I was asked to write about 2 months ago… Well, what would better subscribe my time spent in India then such a delay. 2 months lasting delay can mean only one thing – not having enough time because of being so occupied by discovering amazingly interesting Indian culture… or second – not having internet connection. Or both as in my case.

 

Nevertheless, the time is passing way too quickly and so after 6 months I’ve got to the end of my Indian adventure. At least now I can make a summary of my whole stay here. So where shall I start and how to make this not in (rozsah) of hundreds of pages which would not be problem at all. Should I introduce you India and try to explain what is different compared to the culture I was born to? Meaningless…. The answer is everything! Everything is different and explaining and subscribing it all would make no sense. Who experienced it, he knows, who haven’t, he would not know even after my detailed storytelling. You know, you can read about India, you can see the pictures, you can even see the videos but it will never show you India in it´s complicity. It will never show you India the way it really is. It will not show you all it´s beauty, it will not show you all it´s problems. When seeing captured faces of Indian people, you will never imagine their incredible (pohostinnost) and when seeing pictures of beautiful nature you will never get to know on how big (hromada) of waste the photograph was standing.

And the most important, it cannot show you anything the way it is because all these stories were written by other people and all the pictures and videos were taken by other people and we must admit, the main factor defining our own experiences is us. The way you do it the way you have it.

So you ask me how was „my“ India? It was amazing! It was surprising! Sometimes tiring but the most of the time incredibly fascinating! All is different, as I said. But that’s exactly the reason I love to be here so much. Every day I am learning here. Every day I am experiencing something I haven’t experienced so far. Every day is new adventure. And as these every days are passing by one after another, without you noticing how fast they do so. You realize, you got to the end of your stay you don’t even know how. And maybe you feel like someone had stolen some pressures time from you but then you realize, how much richer this time made you. You met wonderful people who printed their patterns into your heart forever. People you have to leave behind even thought you would rather pack them into your suitcase and bring back to Europe with you. You have visited wonderful places and experienced breathtaking moments which will never come back again but they will stay forever in your mind. You learnt so much… so much that the stuffs you have learnt through your whole life in school seem so tiny and

But what is the most important, these only few months had changed you! You look back in time on your 6 months younger yourself and you realize, that you grew up. Your perspective of life and world itself have changed. The way of seeing your past is different and the way of planning your future even more. You opened your heart to new country, new culture, new people, new adventure and you let it change you forever. Or maybe not to change you but more likely it helped you to become more yourself, to become person, you want to be.

There were a good moments and there were the be done. I was happy, I was sad. There were moments I was homesick, but there were moments I forgot about the fact being thousands of kilometers away from my home. Because I was home. I found my other home here! I found a place and people I will be always desiring to see again.