It was when I realized that the urge to escape from trifling and mundane tasks of the every day routine world can no longer be squelched, that I decided to go to Malaysia. What can be more ideal than an Island to yield to a craving of this kind? I did not stay in KL but escaped into the pleasant laziness of the Tioman Island.
I have always felt that huge water bodies or towering hills can influence our thought process by their sheer beauty and their huge dimensions. Tioman had the combination of the two. Bordered by the hills on one side and sea on the other side, I felt that the village of Juara had an intangible knack of lifting us several planes above the frivolousness of the world. I felt as big as the hills and as broad as the sea. I felt I could forgive anyone and in short, felt like God.
I was staying in a beach resort and it was really fun to be waking up to the blue waters every morning. I am hooked to my Ipod when I am outside or to my head phones in office most part of my day. But I used my IPod but for 5 minutes in Tioman. The rumbles of the waves and the gentle breeze provided all the music I ever wanted in those 3 and half days. I never imagined life could be as beautiful without the things that I imagined to be bare necessities - cellular phone, the laptop and the access to internet. It is not anything new that I say here, but it is a reminder that life is more than struggling to fit ourselves into the dimensions of successful people as defined by the world.
Tioman
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Good one.. Sure most of us do want to 'escape from' life/time/our roles/our destiny whatever, most of the time than we want to go with it...
Especially women, who are more bound to their quotidian life style...
But some people just amaze me.. how could they be self satisfied or is it that they dont realise things outside their small world.. or are they so dedicated... or have they found and placed themselves in exactly what they wanted... whatever...
the high mountains, large landscapes, wide waterbodies... these I feel are created in various ways... they are available in ways that could treat all the senses we have... What you have seen is they way wee can 'see' God's work...
You can hear them when you hear majestic music or hear few people talk.. think of a kid's speech, its equal to all the beauty in the world... and when you can hear your soul talk, thats the highest mountain you can reach
Similarly we should be able to feel the greatness with touch, smell, taste..
and highest form is to feel and belive... feel God's presence and belive in his contribution in everything that happens..
Nice post and a comment. You roam outside, but eventually find peace inside. You roam to eliminate outside choices, and you will discover that beauty lies inside.
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