Natyb25

Jomo Kenyatta International

Posted by Natyb25 | 19th April 2008

This is my last entry from somewhere interesting, or at least that’s how it feels. Though the most overwhelming feeling is exhaustion. Physically, yes. Sleep last night wasn’t sound and the net didn’t quite cover the bed. But also a larger and quieter exhaustion, the mental toll that life here so naturally imposes.
What’s coming seems too new, almost too immense to allow enjoyable anticipation. I think about New York and Shannon and my family and home and I feel nothing. Maybe a silent satisfaction, but the larger idea of what’s happening is too big, composed of too many intricate parts to allow easy and descriptive enumeration.
At the same time, I look out the window at the palm trees and the tropical sun and I ask myself to drink them in, to enjoy and savor the little peculiarities that will soon be lost to sight and mind. But I can’t. I feel as even and blasé about here as I do about where I am going.
Perhaps that’s just how airports are?
I can remember so clearly arriving

Continued | Life is Full

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