While waiting for Kenric to purchase tickets for the boat ride, I made small talk with an Indian lady. After we got off the boat, she happened to be in front of us waiting to board the train up the mountain. More small talk. Upon arrival, we went separate ways.
Later, she saw us sitting on this bench looking out, and stopped to chat. With a beer in my hand, we started talking about travel and life. She encouraged us to visit India, and talked about her favorite African safari. She pulled a paper bag out of her backpack, and offered us samosa. Samosa?! Who can say no to samosas….FROM LONDON?!
Originally from India, she has been living in London for twelve years, and is a U.K. citizen. For the past three years, she’s been traveling once a month just to see the world. She’s winding down her life in London, and will be returning to India next year.
In 2011, she decided she would devote her life to the Ashram of which her family is a part. She will work in the hospital, and on educating adults and children to help broaden their horizons. She wanted a more fulfilling way of life.
I raised my beer to her. When she later said that she would still be traveling a lot because as a nun, she would go to different places that need her skill set, I felt bad for raising the beer to her. Do nuns drink?
We both agreed that education is the poor man’s wealth. She’s thankful that her mother insisted that she got a education despite not being college-educated herself. She gave us her card, and invited us to visit. I said we would as Kenric has been saying he wants to go to India.
After about 30 minutes, she left to catch the train down. I leaned back thinking how admirable she is; thinking about how I arrived in the U.S. when I was 21, and left when I was 42. What will I do with my life if I should live for another 21 years? I took another sip of beer. YUCK!! A dead fly in my beer. In my mouth!
While I have no idea how I will meaningfully live out the rest of my life, and be useful to others, the fly showed me a good way to end it when the time comes.
Map of Places Visited
Mount Rigi
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Mount Rigi47.055407, 8.484299Mount Rigi, above Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
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