a day less ordinary

I had a completely spontaneous day today.

I slept on a lakeside bench by a fort in Udaipur. I woke up to the sounds of someone calling out to his God through a minaret. The voice reverberated through the fort. I could feel his devotion. I could also feel his pain. Through his voice, his life sort of unfolded in front of me. He was calling out to his God, to come save him.

I got up from there and drove down to another lake nearby. I trekked along the lake. Picked up the stones that were lying by and tried to make them skid along the water. After a while I got bored.

So I went for a walk through a garden on the other side of the lake. The air around the place had a very earthy smell to it. The flowers weren’t in bloom but the garden had a well trimmed look.

Later I went driving up the hills of Udaipur. When I reached the end of the road, I parked my bike and went for a walk. I walked on through the dream landscape. There was absolute silence all around except for the steady crunchy sound of my shoes on the unbroken ground. When I reached a place where I knew I would have just enough energy to walk back to the bike I sat down and listened to the silence.

On my way back I found a liquor shop. Bought couple of beers and got drunk. Sat on my bike and watched the sun set behind the hills.

Each moment that I lived today was better than the one before. Each moment that came to meet me passed on memories that I will carry around for a long time.

If I were to do this day all over again would I make the same choices?

If not, then what were the other wonders that this world had in store for me today?