Final days before India

There are just two days before I leave to go to India. I am filled with many emotions, but mostly excitement. As I think about my time abroad, I have a lot of goals for myself. I don't want my year to be easy. Rotary has never been about having fun for me. It has always been a time to find yourself. A year to get out of my comfort zone, have nothing feel familiar, but in the midst of it all, I will find myself. I hope that I'm challenged more than I've ever been challenged before. I hope that I feel lonely at times, but can find a way to feel loneliness and be ok with. I hope I will learn to grow from the loneliness.  I also hope that my mind open up-that I realize there is more to life then high school and little Northfield. I want to enrich myself so much in another culture and another life. There is a quote from the movie Eat, Pray, Love that reminds me of my year abroad. It goes like this, "I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest"-a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either internally or externally), and if you are truly wiling to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared-most of all- to face (and forgive) some difficult realities about yourself…then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I believe. I hope ti find myself on this journey. I have already learned so much just from researching India. I watched a documentary about Sadhu's, people that give away all of their earthly possessions to become closer with God. This is what spoke to me during the video-Sadhu's say "If you had x-ray machine, you wear it and walk around the world-you see everyone, only skeletons walking.you cannot find who is man, woman, nothing. So, from the point of God, we are all like that. So, we look at people through the same way. And see sun. He's a friend of the whole world. He doesn't say,  "I am your enemy, I cannot go to your house". Even though you are an enemy, you are a friend. He comes to everyone. Just like that-we should also be. Showing brightness to everyone. This world was created for peace. We have to be peace. There should be peace, not violence. People just…they are becoming more aggressive. That should not be that. We have to love nature, then nature will love us. Otherwise, on day nature will take over us. So we have to think that we are one-and be happy" I know I will continue to learn more about life from all the people I meet in India. I'm so excited to start my journey. I hope you will choose to follow my journey! Thank you for reading. I'll post an update soon.