i was told repeatedly that it looks just like that every morning from 6am to 10am. It's not that there's a lack of transportation, instead Mumbai's transportation systems seems to be well established. The simple fact is that whatever is being built additionally is immidiately being run over by the crowd. Explaining more would be pointless since it is a very personal experience seeing the "sophisticated organization of chaos" and the diversity of people, problems and whatever comes across your mind.
Following my last entry after leaving Pune I have stayed in Hampi for 10 days. The time I spent in this magnificent place shown below:
The village of the locals, who started to settle there during the last 50 years is located just beside those temples. This picture seems to be taken a few decades ago, since the front of the first temple is fully populated. The place itself is pretty touristy, as it has countless temples, beautiful landscape and usually pretty nice weather. Although I prefer places without any trace of Western or Japanese/ Korean tourism I have to say it didn't really matter to me, because the impression was so overwhelming. The fact that I stayed in Hampi Children Trust helping poor little sweethearts to get dressed for school every morning, handing out some food thrice a day, helping them while doing homework and also taking them out to place. The number of children was around 20-25 in the mornings and 10 to 15 at lunch-time and evenings. The age range was 4 to 13, but most around 5 to 9. I guess you can imagine that it has been an extraordinary pleasure to help those poor little creatures (although they didn't appear helpless or sad in any way) in order to give them a chance in life to escape rather poor conditions. The idea to establish this place comes from a local and an English man called Tim. They couldn't stand seeing loads of children begging for Rupee's. Beside doing all that at HCT I did some other fun things such as exploring surroundings on a bike, having a face massage and reading reading reading. During those 10 days I finished something like 3 books. Anyone interested in mountaneering, self-sacrifice, determination, excitement or beauty of nature is adviced to read the following book: Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-meter Peak by Maurice Herzog. It does all sorts of emotionally loaded things with you, but most of all gives you a huge respect of this profession and to those people who do everything to achieve their dreams. Indeed I feel an urge to bow in front of such kind of people. Once again this guides me to the understanding that everything lies in the mind. If you have a strong mind you can literally do anything and be successful no matter what the circumstances are. Addressing all those worrying about my future and some "wild ideas" or let's say less common practices I intend to turn real... you don't need to worry about the choices I make. As long as I'm able to develop such kind of mind failure is not an option ;-)
Today I'm gonna take a train to Delhi where my host, apparantly a surpreme court lawyer awaits me. That's the 4th lawyer after Kim, Rahul, Amit I get to know.
OK... that's all for the moment. As usual a 100 pages had be compromised to 1 or 2, thus lots of thoughts and information got stuck in my mind and waits to be expressed until I meet you.
Hugs
Phil
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