Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Things that could totally happen

There are several alternate realities that I feel as if I could now live given my most recent experiences in Nepal. Here are 2 of them.

1. Accept my invitation to join Nepali coverband "The Subtones". Play no instruments, attempt to sing jazz. Scandalize the Nepali community with off the shoulder dresses and general western-ness. Become famous for songs like "Ain't Nobody's Business" a la Billie Holiday. Eventually break up the band by having an affair with someone I shouldn't have, call them "mero mayalu" in front of the wrong person. Attempt to go solo, fail, return home.

2. Instead of returning home--now or after coverband fame--take refuge in Tibetan Buddhism, find a Rimpoche to call my teacher. Learn a lot about nothingness, shave my head, become a nun. Live at a nunnery in the middle of nowhere, go on pilgramage at several sites throughout Nepal and India. Eventually fall in love with another nun. Run away to Thailand.

3. Go home to PDX with my current ticket. Continue with 5 year plan of starting practice, buying house, raising a kitten, maybe get some chickens, rent out house, travel again.