LOST IN INDIA

Traveling to India remains a blur in my memory.

Perhaps I had been unconscious.

I certainly had been sick.

But here I was in busy, colorful India.

I remember I bought some books, then looked for a place to sleep for the night.

I also wanted something to eat.

I left the books in a room that I had rented, and then went to a restaurant.

I remember that I ordered something with curry (but in India everything seems to have curry).

I suddenly didn't have an appetite.

I went back my room, but I couldn't sleep.

A radio kept blasting some news.

The word shah kept getting repeated.

I left.

I began walking.

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I wasn't walking to find anything.

I just wanted to look at everything.

I continued to walk and walk.

When they finally found me I was only wearing pants.

My socks, shirt, and shoes had been gone for some time.

Since I hadn't bathed in about two weeks, I didn't smell like a rose.

I had eaten very little for two weeks.

I had lost about forty pounds.

My corrective eyeglasses were also gone.

I was blind as a bat when they found me.

It had been a walking nightmare.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!