I want to meditate. A serious of events have triggered this desire. I bought a book called "500 places where you can make a difference" with chapters for helping animals everywhere around the world, for helping the earth, and people, in all sorts of different ways. This book is amazing, and when I saw it I had to buy it. After flipping through the book for a while I decided to investigate the spiritual section. I was expecting out-reach programs, but most of them were retreats. One of them is in Kanchanaburi Thailand where if you arrange it, and pay the cost to get there, as well as commit to at least a full month, you can meditate at a Buddhist Tiger Temple, where you meditate and take care of tigers that have been orphaned by poachers. Seriously. When I looked to the cost and saw it was free when you commit to it for a month, my heart fluttered. Skipped a beat, maybe. Then I began reading the book "Eat, Pray, Love" a true story about a woman on a spiritual journey after a terrible divorce, and she goes to Italy, India and Indonesia to piece herself back together. She spends four months at a meditation camp in India.

Even though I'm a silent kind of person by nature, I've never tried meditating before. In fact when I try to quiet my mind at all I usually fall asleep. I wonder if I have the ability -- but of course I do, everyone does. I have had a friend who went to a meditation retreat more than once and I was skeptical back then, then intrigued, and now I really want to try it.

I guess there are also meditation retreats here in Canada, but taking care of Tigers in Thailand would be pretty rad.

I wouldn't mind taking care of some baby elephants in Sri Lanka for two weeks, either. But did you know, according to expedia.ca that plane tickets to Sri Lanka are anywhere from 3500-10,000 dollars? How can a plane ticket cost 10,000 dollars. Is this actually possible?