Humpday Rewind: Of slippers, temples and connections

Humpday Rewind is a weekly post of photographs that are (ideally) over a year old. What for? Because sometimes all we (I) need is a little bit of nostalgia to get us (me) through the week.

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Barefoot
2009-10-31
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If you had asked me years ago what my dream destination was, I would have answered you without batting an eye that it was India. As luck would have it, the first stamp my passport got was for a trip in Chennai. Nice, right?  The photo above was taken during a weekend off of a business engagement to that city.

I remember that exact moment so vividly. It was the first time in that trip I was to enter a temple (Kapaleeswarar, if you should know) and I was asked to remove my slippers before entering. I recall the hesitation I had to quickly get over with and how I cautiously felt the cold, damp ground after I took my footwear off. The feeling of foreign soil touching my feet was surreal, indescribable. Right then and there I realized what everyone had been saying about what traveling can do to a person and how it  makes you feel connected to the rest of the world like you’ve never experienced it before.

Cheesy, I know, but can’t be any less true.

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Hump day, noun:

The absolute BEST day of the week, the day of maximum hope that maybe, you might make it out of this week alive. A particularly good hump day can last you the rest of the week, and by Doomday morning (Monday) you survive by anticipating hump day. Nothing goes wrong on hump day.