June 2nd
Today is the day I realized I should try and write everyday.
The day started at 12-2am, I finally finished reading David and Goliath by Malcom Gladwell. The book read itself, I did not have to exert any energy on reading, it was very well written and concise. I started another book last night as well called Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. I fell asleep before I really sunk my teeth into it. I woke up and did not go my track meet that I paid 70$ to attend, although I've been training for the past 2 months for that moment. The alarm went off, I thought I'd keep postponing until the last moment came, and even then I decided to be lazy and not go. I'm upset with my actions of this morning but I do not regret it. I am amazed at my indifference to this, as I thought Track and Field was such an important part of my life, something that I wanted to hold on for as long as I could. The sluggish morning seeped into the rest of the day, I didn't really get any work done. I spent so much time on Youtube today. Although I came across something very interesting, Vagabonding, a book that explores the art of long term travel. I'm quite interested in travelling, ever since I read the book Autobiography of a Yogi, I was amazed at how much of the world he saw. I remember reading adventures of tintin growing up, all the different cultures. There is a whole world out there, that harbours a different way of thinking. From the language they speak to how they dress. The most appealing part of traveling for me, is meeting new people. I am from Kerala, India where we speak Malayalam. I spent the early year of my adolescence speaking Malayalam, and engaging with my community that my whole family had been apart of since the beginning. People were different in India, they thought differently and wanted different things, and that really struck me. When I was in India, all the kids in my class wanted to be doctors, and I still remember this girl in my class, she was very talented, and put a lot of effort into her academics. Her biggest wish was to go to AMERICA. I was taken aback by this, why not aim higher I thought to myself. She had more potential than anyone I had met previously. It took me a while to realize, but I believe she just wanted to see the world, something I couldn't understand at the time even though I had lived in Canada. Anyway, last year when I went back to India for a couple months. I really tried to take in everything that was happening around me. We went to a neighbouring State that spoke a different language, (just think about that, lets say you go from Alberta to BC, and they spoke a different language). I was in Tamil Naidu, the language was close to ours, but I wasn't very good at it either way. I decided to walk out of the hotel my family was staying at, and try talking to them. I came across a guy selling coconut water (Straight out of a coconut, not in a plastic container). I had 50 Rupees on me, and I wanted to see if I could bargain him down to 30 Rupees. So we started talking, and he did not know a lick of Malayalam, and I was a little conversational in Tamil. Thankfully the numbers are more or less the same. I got him down to 30 Rupees, but I gave him the 50 anyway, because I didn't really need the money. He said with he's gonna go home now, he doesn't really need to work because he had just recently married off his last daughter. I could see in his eyes that he really cared for his family. The sun was absolutely scorching and he was a local. I'm assuming he worked nearby as a construction worker (coolie). I also assume that he had very little education. I wondered what life had meant to him, he was probably around the same age as my parents. I wondered if he had ever asked himself about the meaning behind life like I did? Did he try talking to girls? Did he mess up talking to girls? All those little things were hidden behind an innocent smile and he said
"nandri pa" - Thank you ( the pa is weird extension thing)
I'm gonna start working out in the morning starting tomorrow too. There's so much I want to write but I have to sleep its 3:00 AM