Today Dr. Rao talked about the importance of preservation of things through continued use, a sort of if you don’t use it you loose it mentality. We got a personalized tour of the Mysore palace today, it was quite beautiful and I enjoyed the tour a lot although I felt bad about standing in front of the other visitors at the palace, especially since it was a group of white students from outside the country who were getting a preferred look at the people who we were blockings history. I eventually just had to shrug it off as there was nothing I could do about it and so I just tried to enjoy the palace. I was thinking today about how Dr. Rao’s words could apply outside of just the maintenance of old buildings into an everyday life model. I discovered that there was no place in which this model could not be applied. The idea that by using something you preserve it is true about knowledge, physical health, and spirituality. I was told once by a friend that the journey of spirituality is like canoeing upriver; if you don’t continue to paddle you flow away from your destination.