To Sum It Up

This is an excerpt from my final exam the India class/trip (written for two professors). I decided to post it because I was thinking about India, and reading some of the stuff I wrote about it, and just thought this was something I would like to post.

The first two or three days of this trip seemed to be an incalculable amount of time. I remember thinking about it, and I couldn’t have given anyone a reasonable estimate to how long it felt like we had been there. And then after that, it seemed like all of the sudden, just one day out of nowhere, two weeks had gone by, and the trip was 2/3rds the way over. And looking back on it all now, sitting here at my parents house on the computer, after having a dream about one night in Kedarnath, the entire trip seems like it was outside the realm of time altogether. As you both may know, I don’t much care for our modern concept of time (especially our calendar system), but I am interested in the idea of how time passes. For this reason I have thought a lot about the time we spent in India, and was intrigued by this question (although I may be straying further and further off topic). Some of the things that interest me are the ideas that there was a block of time in my life I spent in India, and while there I saw things, and experienced things that have been going on for years, and are still going on, and will be going on tomorrow. But there was a time when I was there, and that time keeps on slipping further into the past, but there were experiences while I was there, and those keep on entering the future with me, and those change me, and consequently change other people that are close to me because I have been changed. What are the big changes (?)- is an excellent question, and at this point, I don’t think I can answer that question with any real accuracy. I think I know that they will have to do with humanity, and the condition of humans in a world sense. The ideas of some of us having everything we need and don’t need, and some of us with nothing at all, and some of them being the innocent, the children, the infants. Issues of life’s fairness and unfairness, and how to deal with that I am sure will also be brought up in my mind, and struggled with, and thought about. But beyond these things I cannot say.