The energy in Puri's air was very holy, and there I was given the proof of positive thinking that can be beneficial only when doubt doesn't exist and the moment is lived in an innocent state of mind, while wishing truly for the best for others without any return expectations.
In India, I was surrounded by so much poverty, at this point it seems appropriate to mention that even though I was better off than the local multitude, I traveled for fourteen months outside my native country, Italy, with the meager sum of one hundred and twenty dollars. Despite the fact that the living cost in those years was considerably lower in comparison to the present, what I had in hand wasn’t much to brag about.
I was fully charged with self-confidence. I didn’t …show more content…
The second lesson learned was that very often assuming is not a good practice.
But they were there now so I went back to leave the guitar and jacket, and then ran back full of excitement towards the fishing crew. I was going fishing! Really fishing for my very first time and my hope and my desire for a good fishing adventure was at the max, the picture of it was clear in my mind and I was projecting it outward.
The adventure that day, out on the boat with the fishermen, turned out to be the most valid experience I ever had. Throughout the following years of my life, more than once, I have had somewhat similar experiences, but they were never as profound as what happened that day.
That day, that magical, mystical day was for me a great day and it was for the fishermen too, as well as it was for all the people of the beach neighborhood that were there on the shore.
To finish the story, this is what happened: When we came back and started to haul in the nets I saw so many fish! They were jumping everywhere outside the net that had a span of a least fifty, sixty maybe even a hundred meters. It was kind of hard to estimate it, especially in the exciting atmosphere that at that time was going
In India, I was surrounded by so much poverty, at this point it seems appropriate to mention that even though I was better off than the local multitude, I traveled for fourteen months outside my native country, Italy, with the meager sum of one hundred and twenty dollars. Despite the fact that the living cost in those years was considerably lower in comparison to the present, what I had in hand wasn’t much to brag about.
I was fully charged with self-confidence. I didn’t …show more content…
The second lesson learned was that very often assuming is not a good practice.
But they were there now so I went back to leave the guitar and jacket, and then ran back full of excitement towards the fishing crew. I was going fishing! Really fishing for my very first time and my hope and my desire for a good fishing adventure was at the max, the picture of it was clear in my mind and I was projecting it outward.
The adventure that day, out on the boat with the fishermen, turned out to be the most valid experience I ever had. Throughout the following years of my life, more than once, I have had somewhat similar experiences, but they were never as profound as what happened that day.
That day, that magical, mystical day was for me a great day and it was for the fishermen too, as well as it was for all the people of the beach neighborhood that were there on the shore.
To finish the story, this is what happened: When we came back and started to haul in the nets I saw so many fish! They were jumping everywhere outside the net that had a span of a least fifty, sixty maybe even a hundred meters. It was kind of hard to estimate it, especially in the exciting atmosphere that at that time was going