Impressions of India - 3

Things change. It is a law of nature, of fluxions. And looking back at change is one of the most difficult challenges life throws at you. Trivially, you may wonder why you ever liked Hindi remixes while you scold yourself for not listening to Bach sooner. From semester to semester, relationships are ever changing. Some friends are no longer friends, some fast friends are now just friends. Some new friends are made, unexpectedly, hidden facets revealed. A handful of treasured moments are stowed away, a few slip away into nothingness and leave behind a void. Meaningless emptiness coexists with rewarding raison-de-etres. You find a purpose in life and priorities take a roller coaster ride. But out of these chaotic experiences, there are sometimes those moments where you enter a time warp, where you just come back after a year and slip effortlessly into your past life. You become you, just time shifted a year backwards. A haven where you can shrug away the detritus of frayed humanity and come out rejuvenated, reaffirm your purpose in life, and look upon everything with a fresh perspective anchored in constancy. That place is home.