~ 6:30pm Korea
We are sitting on our last flight together for now, about to take off from Korea, YES, another stamp in my passport. It was so fucking cold here! Almost freezing! I'm glad we went, better than sitting in an airport for 10 hours (our layover period) but overall, I didn't feel so impressed with Seoul. It didn't feel that unique and so it didn't seem particularly interesting. There was nothing that really stood out about it...
So now we are returning home in our new Thailand clothes. I definately feel lighter than when I left. Yes, I even feel more self confident. I feel I have explored and brought new things into my being. I feel I am going back to California with new energy. I feel more mellowed out, like something will happen and life will go on and more good things will come and more bad and some things will endure through it and survive and continue and many things will change and come and go but the world is just the world and there is so much there and so many eveyones just living their lives and trying to get by participating in this human struggle to do the best we can with the imperfections we are given and the road blocks we encounter and the bendings of our minds which make it so hard to see sometimes what is the best, and what we should do and not do, how to affect those around us and the world...
I must forgive myself that this trip was not quit as perfect as it might have been for too many personal and complicated reasons... So our paradise beach... Apparently a HUGE earthquake, 8 point something, biggest in the world in 40 years, hit the islands the morning after we left, our train was just getting into Bangkok when it happened around 7am.
Bungalows were swept away, snorklers onto the land, sunbathers into the sea. I still haven't heard all the details but I know the death tolls are still rising. What a strange thing. And what does that mean, just how that timing worked out? Makes me feel strange... lucky I guess, fated somehow.
It is so lovely how absorbed I got into this trip. It resulted in a horrible turnout of postcards and presents, unfortunately for my family and friends, but oh well. This trip was obviously a very selfish one for me. I have been very me-focused for a while now, but I think that was necessary, has been, not sure for how long... I am still struggling for balance between them and me, between giving and getting...
So much to learn in a life.
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