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I hear you Rabindranath, WONDERFULLY - Dhammika Dharmawardhane

I hear you Rabindranath, WONDERFULLY – Dhammika Dharmawardhane.

‘1989 another summer, sound of the funky drummer, doing what I am doing…’

Flavour Flav, Public Enemy and the intro to Spike Lee’s movie ‘Do the right thing’ in that summer 1989.

Meanwhile, far away in 909, S.Davies Street, Kirksville, Missouri. In front of Missouri Hall, Truman University and next to the Sigma Ep Gamma house lived I, Dhammika Dharmawardhane.

I have and always will choose the less trodden, tricky, and barred path. I may cry more, but so do I, my friends, so much do I, REJOICE.

SO MUCH LIKE THIS HOUSE, SO LONG AGO MY HOME, SHATTERED AND BATTERED, BUT STILL STANDING, PROUDLY!

I hear you Rabindranath, WONDERFULLY.

Dhammika Dharmawardhane

I hear you Rabindranath – Dhammika Dharmawardhane.

I hear you Rabindranath – Dhammika Dharmawardhane.

Please watch this video to the end where my friend Maiya (Mihira Wijeweera) asks me a simple question.

“OK, so which way do you wanna go?”

It was simple, but so pertinent. For I realised I was EXACTLY” where I want to be. The first off my bucket list. Returning to my life over two decades ago with one of those who shared it to see another who also shared it with us – Ravisha ‘Chief’ Wijeweera.

A billion of you will say so what? But to me, a lad all the way from Udispattuwa Kandy and Galagedara Kurunegala, Sri Lanka and billions of other like me, it means everything.

It means that I am may not be President Obama, but I dream equally as him.

“One day I’ll be President”

Nelson Mandela while imprisoned in South Africa.

“When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.”

Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali.

I hear you Rabindranath. Precisely. – Dhammika Dharmawardhane.