A directional traversal

Since it's been so long since I've had anything to say there is a some desire to explain myself. I could be that careless and just desert the idea of blogging at all, but somehow I tend to think in a few years when i am doing something entirely different I will randomly happen on the Lead Forward blog and just take a minute to remember. Since we last left off it was my 26th birthday, did i mention that my real age is 21, but you know how much more respect you get when you are older. If this doesn't explain anything we can deduce that I had a mild crisis as usual during birthday time. By this age I should be a multi-millionaire running a web design firm, I should have invented the new energy efficient time machine, or discovered the boat that sank the day after the titanic that no one knew about because it was lost in all the hype of the titanic. Since none of these things have happened at milestones like birthdays, departures from countries, or changes in life plans I tend to do some thinking. Regardless I hopped off to another continent for a work related purpose. I think everyone knows of my desire to join fashion design and social work in a humanitarian effort to change mankind and at this phase in the experimental life plan the ideas are just taking shape. So I embarked on the luxurious and affluent Indian Airlines journey to Frankfurt, Germany to design some awesome shizz. Which it was and as a reward, and a yearly ritual, i enjoyed a Greek Woostafarian family vacation, complete with ketchup chips and feta. Then back to India. I met one friend in Mumbai, enjoyed the tourism, taxi service, nightlife, falafel and walking. Plus on the return I got to take a 2 1/2 day train ride where I got awakened and questioned for possible drug possession and use. I proceeded to tell the conductor that drugs were bad. After returning to Chennai an aunties death led me to an excursion in Kerala, which was beyond my dreamy dreams! Needless to say I was in the company of my favorite inspirational activist Sherin and a talented fashion design student. We saw some natural places, ate some local herby foods, visited cardamon factories, drank tons of black coffee with masala spices and took so many photographs. After staying a couple day in Chennai I was back with Mathew in Chengelpattu trying to figure out the next plan for our program and my time here. I developed a speech for our college and graduate students meeting last week which was a success in terms of attendance and more motivational ideas. I only stayed to give the speech and greet everyone. A father turned advocated named Jose gave a nice lecture on how to plan for your future and achieve your dreams and then Mathew conducted some exercises with the LF members while I went on my way to Cuddalore on a government bus. I met with my friend Pastor Peter Paul Thomas who is doing well and as usual we discussed some life philosophies and I recruited him to help me find a new place to live in Pondicherry, the french colony with it's bistros, rues and other inspirational characteristics. I had accepted a job to develop a lead product for a top secret exciting new global brand making it's way in the fashion industry so I wanted to go into seclusion to do the best possible job. Thus I have moved, taken a break from social work and relish to give more details in the next post!