The more time I spend with my father, the more I’m able to compare myself with the person I was before having come to India and Nepal. This experience has changed me for the better. I feel that I am more relaxed and laid back about pretty much everything. Every question he has seems to be easily and rationally answered by my now calm and well trained mind. Since Vipassana in particular, everything I think about seems more logical now thfat so much isn’t running in and around my mind. I’m still me, just a better and more up-to-date version of me.
It’s liberating to have come to the realisation that I am now the woman I have always wanted to be, living this life which I am. There is no farce of pretending to be anyone other than myself. Vipassana has taught me the most important thing I will ever need to be aware of in life, that nothing stays the same. The gust of wind that hits your face will never be the same gust of wind. If you tip your toe into the local river and re-dip, it will never be the same river water which touches your foot. And it’s the same with people, no one stays the same. So I am a different person to who I was 10 years ago, different to who I was 3 ½ months ago and even different to who I was 5 seconds ago. But this is me, the real me, the woman I have always wanted to be and so I couldn’t ask for any more.

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