SARK: "We each get a life (if we're alive) and the shape of that life can be affected by us ... so sit down and send energy into your life. Begin adding new elements that you want included in your life invent their form..."
Being in India, albeit only for a day so far, has really made me think about the ways life can be enriched so simply. Even though this is a trip fundamentally about art, textile and heritage research I cannot help but be drawn to the people.I am staying in Ahmedabad - a place that is not readily visited by tourists and as a result I'm getting to witness Indian life in it's very natural state. The people who live in this old part of city that I visited today clearly live very simply and, to be blunt, are very poor. Yet the Gujarati people are full of vitality and life. There is so much spirit and happiness among such destitute scenery.
SARK: "My life has become so much of what I dreamed, it astonishes me. My inventions have nourished me and others. I'm so glad to be the inventor of my life. Whenever I fall into a dark pit, I try to remember this."
Like SARK my life has become something so much more than I ever could've hoped. I have a wonderful fiancée, I am loved, I am following an exciting career path, I live in one of the worlds most exciting city, I live in comfort, I have spare money to spend on things simply for pleasure...
I would like to work on inventing my life so that I am satisfied by the plentiful thins that I have, not to "want" quite so much. I wish to invent my life so that I do not take for granted the things that I have so readily - and certainly to complain so much less. I'm going to invent a life where I am happy with spiritual satisfaction (not in terms of religion as such - but more about inner peace). I hope that the longer I spend here the more I can absorb from the people and culture around me.
... Invent a new you ...
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