Surprisingly, two weeks have already passed eversince i stepped onto this quiet and massive land..living in the canyon is like being isolated from the rest of the world..despite getting information from newspapers and guides about how high above sea level we are, i just cant seem to feel it until the day i hiked closed to the bottom of the canyon..when i looked back (and up), the cliffs really seem to be hovering above me, and enclosing..
I remember complaining about the network and connections, but deep inside me, i know im actually quite grateful. Being forced to stay away from handphones and net and stuff really threw me back to the basics..Our dorm and the guy's dorm are about 7mins walk away, across a railway. When we just reached this place 2 weeks ago, we were still complaining about the troubles of not being able to contact each other, but by the end of the 2nd week, we bought two stick-on packs and crayons etc and pasted on each of our doors..so we can actually leave notes on each other's doors when in need..i like to write messages, as much as receiving them. When you are exhausted from work, or just cant find anything to fill up your time, and you find a message on your door saying that there's a movie session or dinner at night, a tiny part of your heart and soul just brightens up a little somehow..=)
Without all the high-tech stuff, we have no choice but to travel to and fro the two dorms to communicate with each other, face to face, and i can feel that it actually pulled our hearts closer..which is good! sometimes we rely so much on tech that we forget that the fastest and most efficient way to communicate our ideas to another person is to talk right in front of them..
It feels great to be embraced by the after-glow of sunset, cooking and eating beside the old railways, or even shivering under the bright stars in pitch darkness at night..serenity i would say..
Being away from home and your familiar friends also results in people getting more bonded to the ones they stay and interact with most of the time..Eating, travelling, chatting with the same group of people over time naturally draws everyone closer, and we are already inside each other's circle of life without noticing..sometimes you don't even realize that you are putting too much attention on one or two people, which results in some tiny and insignificant things being magnified..and moving at a speed beyond control..
Life is simple, and yet so complicated.
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