The past few days I have seen a lot and done plently of wandering. This city makes you feel like you can get a glimpse of every spectrum of life. The kind of money that is in mumbai is really incredible. Shops that sell beautiful clothing and jewellery are all over, markets overflow with clothing and shoes, books and electronics. The streets bustle. The amount of people who sleep on the streets is astonishing and really difficult to deal with. It is so hard to not give money to children, especially when you see the kind of situation they are in. Its hard to negotiate where your responsibility and ability to give as a foriegner is exactly. Does giving encourage begging, and how much do/can you give, when and who do you say no to? And it seems no matter how much you give, it never feel like enough and you when you say no I wonder if there is any inkling on their part as to how heartwrenchingly painful it feels. It seems like the spectrum of life, poverty , affluence is like a tidal wave. Compared to Canada, and my experiences there it seems like our spectrum of life is a minor blip. Either way, its totally shaken my sense of gratitude. It makes me think how lucky and fortunate I am and how incredibly random life is that depending on what part of the globe you are born in, and to whom you are born of, literally makes a world of difference.
With that said, its Diwali here! And you know what that means? a lot of fire crackers and christmas lights. We were out the other night and we must have heard hundreds of fire cracker blasts. my ears rang the whole evening. I put my three fave pictures up from the other day. i hope you enjoy!
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Happy diwaling.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about the poverty faced in some countries. I was recently in Cambodia and experienced the same thing to some extent. You feel really bad for not giving to everyone, but you can only do so much. We are so blessed to be born here in Canada that's for sure. Incredibly so.
ReplyDeleteTake care ~