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When Thought goes Wild

When Thought goes Wild

Monday, June 4, 2007

快乐的邂逅

许多人为自己的人生套上太多的必需,必需考好成绩,努力向上,必需勤奋工作挣钱,必需有家庭有伴有孩子,而下一代则必需重覆这些必需.

这种必需是什么呢?是一种狭隘的盲从,认为美满的人生,快乐的获取,只有一种既定的途径可达至.

但是人的心像个快乐的小孩,世界是他的乐园,美好的东西太多,有趣的玩乐无数,周遭尽是无限新奇的可能性.可是所谓的理智,就像个呆板的大人,喋喋不休的尽是催促他做些无聊的工作.

放开束缚吧!突然你会觉得天地豁然一片辽阔.

别太过认真,来这世上尽情的玩乐吧!这不是颓废迷失的放纵,而是稚子之心在神的国度里尽情的嬉乐,以心为本,探索自身的能量,赞叹世间的奥妙.

人生没有意义,这没有意义可不是一种消极,而是一种自由,正因为没有意义,每一个人皆可赋予自己个别的意义,是对是错只有你的心知道,问问自己,你快乐吗?快乐是一种上帝的肯定,违背心的意愿得到的将是惩罚,是郁郁寡欢,或百般无耐,你骗得了全世界,骗不过你的心.

相信你的心吧,当你的心快乐天真的笑着时,那是一种与神的邂逅.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Preparing for the Journey


After having my breakfast, I went to an outdoor shop nearby to buy something for the journey, an Alpinepac Igloo 125 sleeping bag, made by self-seal interlocking polyester, which is at least half the size of my current Deuter one, then a Sea to Summit 30 litre Compression Dry Sack, that is supposed to be able to compress my cloths to half the original size, and Drylite Micro Towel. I tried to travel lighter this time, the aim is to get all neccessary stuffs into a 50 litre backpack, instead of using my old Karrimor Panther 75 litre.

Traveling light is the current trend, the lighter is the backpack, the easier to get around, we all know this, but at the time of packing, I always have the difficulty of getting it just right. Once I packed so light and realized later I was under-equipped in a freezing night. Over-packing is equally bad, the weight and size will absorb some fun out of the trip, and attract too much attention by shouting out loud the message --- hey, I'm new here!


This is the Compression Dry Sack with The North Face Triclimate Parka, and a few clothings inside, it forces air out through the eVENT fabric, which is permeable to air, but waterproof, and reduces the original size to half.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Leaping with Gratitude

My heart is filled with gratitude these days because Kanna and Pillai have been taking the extra effort to offer me the freedom to quench my globe-trotting urge and an option to go back later. I have been lucky all these years to have great people around me, I still feel that I owe them a debt of gratitude because of my leaving.

However, inside of me there is a force growing stronger and stronger, a force of metamorphosis, and I think my changing process is going to be faster and faster. That is how growth should be, like snowballing, to welcome more growth and seek more possibilities by leaping forth, I might fall and it might hurt painfully, but I don't think it will make me less intelligent.

I have least intention to lead a monotonous life, staying at one single place doing the same old thing over and over again, life is thousand-cloven, all rich and wonderful, but I cannot see the new world without leaving the old, the new might not be the better, the important thing is my readiness to take the risk and go forth.

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Into Uncertainties

Just a few more days I will be free, in front of me are uncertainties, however, age has taught me the beauty of them, because within uncertainties, there are possibilities, and my life will change, I still don't know to which direction, but at least I can feel the excitement now, it's alluring, and fresh, and energetic...to walk into the world again with a child-like curiosity and playfulness.

It's a bit strange if after accumulating experience and knowledge throughout the years, what is left within me is fewer possibilities and confinement, learn all these years to tell myself what I can do and what I cannot, to shrink my own world with my own fear and lament about it. It is really funny if one can think in such way to reduce oneself to a safety corner.

Whenever I step into a terra incognita, the world opens up for me, now it's getting more and more exciting for me to go into unknown rather than feeling the fear. Unknown is an imagery monster with fear as its weapon, guarding the new world from the timid, the moment I decide to walk straight up and take it down, it dwarfs and vanishes.