The Waterpump

It's June, I am in Delhi, it is summer and it is hot. I'm talking 44 degrees Celsius going on 322 percent heat! I was on a beautiful holiday in Dubai and then South Africa, from having gorgeous weather, to scorch in Delhi's Dilliness!

As most of you know, I live my life as a student. A spiritual being trying to figure out this human thing. Always willing to understand the law of attraction, always attempting to tune in to positive channels and making a whole candy coated adventure out of life. So here is my story for this month. A series of unfortunate events as I have tuned into a shaky frequency. As I am making a conscious effort to become aware of my limiting beliefs again, I am getting myself slowly out of this uncomfort zone. It is fabulous. I am learning about myself every day, humbling myself to this big universe and learning to appreciate things that we absolutely take for granted.

Today is the fifth day we've had no running water. Even though I am African, I never thought I'd experience this. Our waterpump blew up and our tanks ran empty (in Delhi, each building of flats has a couple of water tanks on the rooftop or at the bottom which get filled up with water by the government twice a day, you need the waterpump to get it to your apartment). So as usual in India, we were promised that'll be fixed the next day. But you know, this is India and people are laid-back and there is apparently no urgency for such basic necessities. So we started showering at our friends' houses and then eventually asked our neighbour (who befriended the cat) for water. Two buckets can get two people bathed, the (pile of) dishes washed, drinking water for the two cats and flush the toilet once. Well, the pump has been fixed, but the tanks are empty because well... tomorrow another guy comes because the 'sensor' is broken too (the thing that 'senses' that the tank is full or needs water, and therefore didn't 'sense' that we needed water)

On top of that a guy threatened to slap me and called me horrible names, our scooter's starter got stuck and so did the scooter. My rental agent owes me one year's rent and cannot be found. I ran out of cash for a little while and lived on 10 Euro for a week. The cats were hungry, it was hot and life just sucked! Man, it gets hot! I feel the need to shower 11 times a day, my skin is dry and my hair is falling out, I sweat behind my knees, haha. BUT!
I (and all of us) have the power to undo all these things and recreate our future with our thoughts as we have put ourselves in our current situation in the first place. This I knew, and yet it's never easy to admit it. I have blinded my sight somehow by blaming others for yucky stuff happening to me and eventually became a blob of selfpity.

Today I accept and approve of myself exactly the way I am. Today I have the power to make myself happy or unhappy.

Water is so precious. I see the neighbours using about 4 buckets of water to clean their driveway, and that almost hurts to observe, ouch. Water is so powerful. It blesses our lives!! Please use water consciously and carefully. Be kind to your neighbour. Be humble. We are no better than the guy taking out the garbage or cleaning public toilets. Show them respect by just acknowledging them and perhaps say hi or thank you. One thing I adore in India is that I can put my palms together to greet someone as it is respectable and common - and oh so humbling and kind. I do this often while I can, because back in South Africa, I'll just be another hippy freak.

This whole little struggle and challenge came as a blessing. Burnt the fields down so that new flowers can grow.

I bow down to thee, the god within us all.
In gratitude


Ps.... and then the water came :-)



“In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference”
Rachel Carson