iKatha

Booking. Trains. Buses. Planes. I’m learning that everything has its time and place. I was becoming somewhat frustrated with the idea of traveling with pre-booking that often takes weeks or even months. The idea confounded me and almost forced me to pay ten times the cost to make it to my destination by plane. I hate the notion that I was doing something out of a perspective that was obviously not working for me. I decided to move past my emotions, and just take a first step. I worked it out in such a way that I’m taking a train that is known to be a bit sketchy, but it gets me from my starting point closer to my destination, Nepal. I’m excited that I’ll be able to see the Taj Mahal by this time tomorrow evening. It’s my birthday gift to my dad (Happy Birthday Baba!)

But I’m learning that life’s short. Yes, the clichéd story we’ve all heard. The one that has no meaning until we make the mistake. The mistake that leads us to a place of acceptance, and an awareness that brings about enlightenment. All of that is fine. All of that will come. I’m just so happy to be taking that first step. Sometimes it’s the most rewarding part of this journey.