Traveling and look good???…good looks can wait

I don’t know how people manage to travel and look so gorgeous. I tried to do a Kareena Kapoor tashan look for a while when we went to Ladakh but it lasted about two hours and was wrapped up a day before the journey started. For one I could carry a maximum of ten kilos at any point. How many of your pretty dresses and high heels will you carry if it must be all on your back. It was a choice based on convenience. So in all of my journey I could only manage dry lips, tangled hair and nose that looked like an after thought on my face wearing the same sort of clothes days after days; months after months. I thought I was going to hate my travel time pictures. These would be images better stored in memory instead, I thought and hoped I lose my hard disk. But now every time I look at the pictures of my backpacking days I see this incredibly content woman who knew make up and pretty dresses could wait who knew expensive cars and fancy dinners could wait and that there will be a day for manicures or facials but now is time for something more meaningful something I will be grateful for the rest of my life.

Traveling around the world takes a lot of sacrifices but it gives you so many more experiences than what books, documentaries and second hand accounts can give you. Your own experience will be your own and unique. It will be shaped by the people you meet, the risks you take and the places you see. In my journey I learnt is time is more important money but peace of mind is more important that time because nothing matters at the end of the day. Even though I was constantly on a journey I felt as though things were coming to an end more often than what I was used to. Life was unstable. I had this vast sense of life just zipping by. Often it felt like being underwater and not being able to breath. It was scary feeling but it set me on a quest to figure what is important and my only hope from all of this was that when I die I will not be hoodwinked by an idea of what is important based on what people told me or movies showed. I will hopefully discover for myself what is important in this life and live every single day of my life pursuing it.