Sunday, March 02, 2008

Colorado in January






I had to go up to Colorado one last time in mid-January for work related trip. It was very cold, at least for someone who is used to warm weather. We commissioned some equipment and as usual the equipment failed in the middle of the night. We went outside with the contractor to fix the equipment and the temperature was -15 F ( -29 celsius). My face was hurting from the cold after just five minutes.

I went to some pretty remote part of Colorado. I can feel a sense of solitude enveloping my whole being just like bone-freezing air in the surrounding. Sometimes I had to drive for miles before I see another fresh track in the snow. Contrasted with the seemingly unchanging and eternal landscape, our life, joy, pain and sufferings are just fleeting shadows on the face of this earth.

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