Travel Junky

Trying

whenever i cry it’s usually for like 15 different reasons all at once

To anyone finding their fire again, may it come back steady, unshakeable and impossible to lose.

Sometimes people need their space. They're not cutting you off. They just need time to fucking breathe and take care of themselves. That shit has nothing to do with you.

Ram Rahim comes out of jail today, on the same day that Umar Khalid’s bail application is denied. Let that sink in. A child rapist has more rights than a student who dared to question the government. #NewIndia

After years of wanting a Swatch, it's so disappointing to know this is the quality you'll make. Don't think i'll ever recommend the brand to anyone, let alone think of buying one myself. It maybe on the lower range of pricing, but 15k is still pretty steep for such low quality.

It's been a couple of months now, and the strap has almost nearly come fully apart, making it difficult to put on, but no response yet from your team on the new strap.

@Swatch I'd been looking to buy a Swatch for the longest time, and much to my delight got gifted one in october. But within 3 weeks of use the strap started coming apart.

I am genuinely surprised why more people in India aren’t talking about this openly. If you want clean drinking water, you have to buy a water purifier and then pay 18% GST on it. If you want clean air, buy an air purifier again, 18% GST. If you want 24×7 electricity, don’t rely on the grid buy an inverter. If you want quality education for your child, forget government schools, you have to go private, where fees run into lakhs. Government schools are not even a serious option for most middle-class families. If you want good healthcare, you go to a private hospital and once you step inside, your bank balance starts bleeding. Many families literally take loans to survive medical emergencies. Now leave all this aside. Even pure food is hard to get. Paneer is adulterated. Dal is artificially coloured. Street food? Nobody knows what’s being mixed dirty hands, sweat, sometimes worse. We just hope nothing happens. Try walking outside: • Footpaths barely exist. • Vehicles come from all directions. • People don’t follow lanes. • Potholes everywhere. One wrong step and: you might get hit by a vehicle, or you might fall and injure yourself And who takes responsibility? No one. Ask questions and suddenly you’re: • called deshdrohi • told to “go to Pakistan” Why should expectations from my own country be compared with Pakistan? When India plays cricket, do we compare ourselves with Kenya or Zimbabwe? No. We compare ourselves with Australia, England, big teams. Then why, as a country, shouldn’t we compare ourselves with: China, the USA, Japan, Australia other large economies? People say “India is Vishwaguru.” If that were true: • why are so many millionaires leaving India? • why are top celebrities and athletes settling abroad? • why do people with money still choose foreign education, healthcare, and passports? Loving your country doesn’t mean staying silent. Asking questions is not anti-national. Expecting clean air, safe roads, honest food, affordable healthcare, and quality education is not a crime. Patriotism is not blind worship. Patriotism is demanding better because we believe India deserves better. If this made you uncomfortable, maybe it needed to be said. Share it. Talk about it. Silence won’t fix anything.

I'm kind of an absent friend like i will love you with my whole heart and go out of my way to give you any help you need but I tend to live in my own world and suck at keeping up communication and I'm really sorry to anyone who takes that personally.

Cut the Aravallis, cut the mangroves, cut the Himalayas. We'll be left with a lovely giant potholed road instead of a country.

@deepan_dsouza @hiravaero Yeah I have no idea. Just saw a bunch of them while I was on the road.

@Kripajaising @hiravaero There were several of them at Haji Ali at Night. Drill maybe?

Security beefed up across India. Things are not right.

this!

@krishashok @chennaikaran We are living only wrong.

@chennaikaran Except, the video is total BS

One more in the series, “I’ve been doing everything wrong all my life”.

@anxietymsgs Played pickleball

During a very dark period, what was the best thing you ever did for your mental health?

@davidgross_man I used to love stumble upon. What fun times.

There used to a be website, StumbleUpon, based around the idea of randomly stumbling upon cool websites

That we are so desensitised to so much violence and gore is really such a telling sign of the times we live in.