Goa is a place of happiness, peace, joy and fun for me. It has been so from my childhood and it is so even today.
Legs on the beach sand, cashew apples filled in hand, ears on a Konkani band and spirits high in the coconut land. Years passed by. Now every visit to Goa was named as vacation, labeled as unwinding and romanticized as a place to have some peace. Peace here was sold in bottles, priced cheap and was available in every other shop. For me this change happened as swiftly as the hairpin turn on the curvy roads of Goa, with a steep decline. Every visit thereafter was then not to get soaked in the Goan ethos, the Portuguese-Goan cuisine, the smell of sea breeze... It was only to get the bottled peace.
Let me make it clear. The idea is not to tell how we use a habit to glamorize peace. The romanticizing of peace is done in many other ways. Going to mountains, visiting monasteries, staying at dharamshalas, going for exotic experiences like sky-diving and underwater scuba trips. Running away from the reality can never give us inner peace. There is nothing wrong in going to places and enjoying vacations. It is important to understand that inner peace is independent of these "trips" ( including the psychedelic ones). Inner peace is something very close to us. We can touch it now. We can touch it here. No VISA, no tickets, no trips.
Inner peace is something very close to us. We can touch it now. We can touch it here.
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