Thank You India...I mean Thailand...

One of my favorite songs is Thank You India by Alanis Morrissette. I love it. It's a song about what you can learn when you are in a place other then where you live. It's grateful, but in a very raw way, which I feel like is sometimes the most beautiful form of gratitude. It's completely different from her first album, but still very much her all at the same time. Someone told me she wrote this song after a trip to India to experience life from another perspective. I wikkied that story...it looks legit...which makes me like it even more.

If I was going to write a song to a country, it would be Thailand. India is certainly a little more gritty and I admit, I was a little more excited about sleeping late and eating Western food then suffering in another country, but I still can relate.

So here it is...thank you Thailand!

how about leaving my long underwear at home

how about morning runs and afternoons on the beach

how about green grass to walk through

how about going to sleep at the same time as my husband

thank you Thailand

thank you rest

thank you quiet

thank you sunshine

thank you lack of busyness

how about the sound of waves on the beach

how about the night market

how about time with people much wiser then I

how about salad bars and bubble water with limes

thank you Thailand

thank you rest

thank you quiet

thank you sunshine

thank you lack of busyness

the moment I stepped off the plane was the moment

I realized I could breathe deeply

the moment I stepped on the return flight was the moment

I realized I could go back without fear

how about "being still and knowing"

how about remembering your sovereignty

how about unabashedly admitting that it ultimately is not about me

how about spending time not complaining but worshipping instead

thank you Thailand

thank you rest

thank you quiet

thank you sunshine

thank you lack of busyness

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