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Today I woke up to the world.
Yesterday was just a dream. I've seen things I never thought I would see.
I can't thank my new friend enough, (we've decided that Pat is the most appropriate name for her considering that my thai pronouciation is a work in progress) Pat and Leng took me and Steven (Steven is a story in himself) and Chris and Jenna (also a fantastic story and fabulous couple for another post) to their usual Thai Market. Many people asked where I disappeared to yesterday and when I say Thai market they ask which one in Bangkok? but this is not a city market. Oh no.
I could not believe my eyes. It took us 1hour by city boat to a far out pier, heading north out of bangkok city area and up until we could go no further by big boat. Costing then only 15 Baht each... about 30p for a river cruise in a big boat... in London that would cost a small fortune! Then when the river ran dry we had to get a Thai Long Boat. Now that is an experience in it's self! 100 baht for 30minutes up the river and into a local market, no foreigners, no english, just thai, thai, thai. Eat thai, sit like thai, walk like thai. Just incredible. I dont really know how to explain it but it's just this great big smile that appears in my head when I think about it, that's the only way to describe it. I think there isnt much i could say to talk about that day except maybe get all emotional on you all.
If you have never had a moment where you just look to the person sitting next to you and you just cant speak because you are just in a moment in time where the whole world is this great big ball around you and you are such a tiny piece just sitting with your knees under your chin, in thai-local's sized boats and the sun glinting off the water spraying from under your boat and birds are calling and people laugh and sing around you... yeah. that's a moment that won't leave my head for a while.
I think Thailand makes you question alot of things in your life, a lot of things need to be questioned though. Not to get all spiritual but..., wait actually no, I'm not going to dampen the spiritual side of all of us, it is important. So I will just carry on; what I was trying to say was that I think that this place with so many people working in one place, so many simple lifestyles, and taking into the beautiful things and also the bad into their lives; they embrace it all because you have to. Because we all have to regaurdless of what has happened or how we feel. You just have to get the hell on with it.
The thai people know that to live you have to get up every morning, drag your sorry arse out of bed no matter how you feel and you get out into that world before it's too late and everything is out of kilter...
I think sitting in that boat, watching the world turn from grey to green has hit home something inside me. Things seem a little off with me, yet at the same time something is better. I'm not sure which but I think my mind has a lot to deal with right now. I hope you all understand if you have ever had a moment like this. Not sure what to say anymore. Sorry to have left this on a weird one but I think there is a lot to think about over the next few days.
Ah leaving Bangkok tomorrow evening, 10hours on a train and 10hours on a bus to Chiang Mai. I will be glad and sad to leave.
Good night my friends.
I miss you all alot.
xXx
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Dad Don't try and make sense of it. Just absorb it for later when it might, just might, fall into place. Dad