Friday 22 February
Is it really only Day 2 in Mumbai?
After today, it feels like I've been here in Bombay Mix Mental Headache-troplis forever.
I love that word "forever", ha.
Forever means "eternity" for me. What is eternal in this life? Our mortal life, that is? Unless one is religious, I guess Heaven or Hell are where we reside once we die. And I understand that is For Ever. I am not religious. Though I do have faith, I'm beginning to realise. I believe in a kind of purgatory on earth. In some respects, the hanging about, sitting on the fence, the nail-biting terror of making that "leap of faith" has been several lifetimes of different types of purgatory for me. Some self-manufactured and, some, I'm beginning to realise were forced up me.
I'd be interested to know how many of my old or close friends will know why I chose the courses I did, since I left the BBC in 1989 - then, a very stable "cradle to coffin" type of employer. I
Some Indians are such bullshitters. Yesterday, I thought they were all lovely. You smile at them, 9 times out of ten, they smile back.
Today, I've had to move hotels. Today I realised that even though some say they are trying to help you - which I'm sure they genuinely are - some appear to have have friends who can offer you a good rate - like better than Expedia etc, which is true if you don't arrive with any personal recommendations.
For example, after having a terrible night's sleep
Is it really only Day 2 in Mumbai?
After today, it feels like I've been here in Bombay Mix Mental Headache-troplis forever.
I love that word "forever", ha.
Forever means "eternity" for me. What is eternal in this life? Our mortal life, that is? Unless one is religious, I guess Heaven or Hell are where we reside once we die. And I understand that is For Ever. I am not religious. Though I do have faith, I'm beginning to realise. I believe in a kind of purgatory on earth. In some respects, the hanging about, sitting on the fence, the nail-biting terror of making that "leap of faith" has been several lifetimes of different types of purgatory for me. Some self-manufactured and, some, I'm beginning to realise were forced up me.
I'd be interested to know how many of my old or close friends will know why I chose the courses I did, since I left the BBC in 1989 - then, a very stable "cradle to coffin" type of employer. I
Some Indians are such bullshitters. Yesterday, I thought they were all lovely. You smile at them, 9 times out of ten, they smile back.
Today, I've had to move hotels. Today I realised that even though some say they are trying to help you - which I'm sure they genuinely are - some appear to have have friends who can offer you a good rate - like better than Expedia etc, which is true if you don't arrive with any personal recommendations.
For example, after having a terrible night's sleep
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