{"id":299,"date":"2015-01-19T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/?p=299"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T19:49:08","slug":"my-time-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/india-uml-bvb\/2015\/01\/19\/my-time-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"My time in India"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I sit here on the plane returning from India, I’m sad my time there is over but also overjoyed to see my family. In the early years of my adulthood, I spent a lot of time wallowing while I watched my friends go away to college, study abroad and experience all I felt I’d needed to, but couldn’t. \u00a0I, of course was married with children, a job and school so I would never be able to share those memories of places so different, in some ways better, in others worse, than where I call home. \u00a0This opportunity gave me the chance to recapture a part of being young that I yearned for but never had. \u00a0Having said that India more than ever reminded me how grateful I am for my greatest adventure in that of my wife and children. \u00a0All of that time I spent lamenting my lost youth was so I’d be able to fully appreciate this memory while knowing I’d be returning to the best thing about my life, my family.<\/p>\n

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I got really sick the last week. \u00a0I didn’t get out much and worked a lot on our project. \u00a0Our mo-ped ride to the hill and the market outings seemed far away. \u00a0The temples were beautiful and ornate in ways I can’t really describe, but as I lay in my bed delirious with pain I almost couldn’t remember any of what I’d seen. \u00a0The young men and women I lived and worked with began to take care of me and reminded me why I’d fallen in love with this country even before I came. \u00a0Maturity and sympathy like I experienced scarcely shows up in the adult world that I’m a part of. \u00a0Maybe it’s just me or maybe it’s our society of independence and quiet suffering, but I barely understood why they were so concerned. \u00a0It didn’t really matter; I was there, we were friends and that’s all it took for them to devote their time to me.<\/div>\n
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India meant so much to me in innumerable ways and I thought the place itself more than anything else would be what I remembered. \u00a0The people obviously make a place what it is and that’s what I really understand now. \u00a0It is the people who make India what it is through it’s beauty in nature, culture, architecture, landscape and everything else. \u00a0Despite its problems, my experience showed that even more things are done right than wrong. \u00a0I think I can say the same for where I’m from, but I don’t know if I’ll always be able to say that. \u00a0I knew that I, along with everyone everywhere, needed to learn about humanity’s differences, but I just never learned the extent. \u00a0I have better idea now. \u00a0I can’t wait to come back, especially with my family so we can share this country together.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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