What Do You Do with the Gift of Time?

You couldn’t really call it a village. It was more a stopping off point on the way to or from Namche. We trekked right past it on the way up but on the way down we set up the tents, sat by the river bank and then spent a quiet night knowing that the next day we were due in Lukla and the flight back to Kathmandu. We were in the village of Phaking on the outshirts of the Khumbu region in the Himalayas.
Just before bed, we entered the tiny tea house and were greeted with the same kindness we had experienced this entire journey. By candlelight we spoke of the journey and the lessons learned along the way. No electricity here. Candles and moon light were our guides.
The khata’s were still firmly around our necks. It was so moving when the Llama in Namche put the scarfs over our heads and around our necks. The khatas symbolize compassion, purity and good will.
Compassion, purity and good will. Not bad symbols to carry around your neck.
Till this day the khata is still with me, literally and figuratively. It is a daily reminder of the need, the quiet pray that we whisper to ourselves that we should and can live with good will in our hearts, with compassion in our souls and a sense of the purity of the original gift we have been given.
The original gift…. time. So often taken for granted or just wasted away.
The tiny tea house in Phaking in the shadow of Everest is forever a stopping off point reminding me of the gift of time and the journey through The Ageless Experiment.