Journal

Sunday 15th December ’24

Today was a bit of a relaxing day. I woke up at around 12 p.m., which was seriously needed, and my tonsils were killing me when I woke up. After a lot of deliberation, we made a plan for tomorrow and decided that we were going to go to Amritsar, Agra, and Delhi. But moving on from that stuff, I will go into more detail tomorrow.

Today, I went on a little food tour around Vadodara with my cousins, and let me tell you, it was quite fun. We first had some pani puri at this extremely busy place.

We then went on to chill at the Inorbit Mall, which was pretty boring to shop in. We just walked around aimlessly and decided that we were going to go somewhere else. We then went to this place called Alembic City, and let me tell you, it was the cleanest place in the whole city. It was a very aesthetic place and looked quite foreign, but we had a lot of food there—the pepperoni and cheese sandwich was delicious.

After this, we drove to Manjalpur to find some “London-style chocolate-covered strawberries.” In this YouTube short, we saw this woman promoting her store. When we got there, it was packed, we waited a whole 45 minutes just to get these fucking strawberries, but in the end, it was worth it as they did live up to their expectations. We filled our stomachs, dropped off two of the cousins, and met the gang of uncles and aunties chilling in the restaurant behind their house. We ended off our day feeding street dogs Parle-G and drove home. In the end, I think today was quite a fun day.

But that was just a little update for you guys on what I did. Please excuse the way I write. I am quite new to this whole thing, but I promise I will get better. P.S. I forgot to mention the Maska buns; they were fucking good.

Anyways, see you guys tomorrow.

Saturday 14th December ’24

Well, today was the big day. It was the final day of the wedding, and let me tell you, I have never before seen an event start so much later than it was actually meant to start. So the wedding was meant to start at 9pm, and they had called everyone to the venue for 6pm for the pre-wedding celebrations like the groom’s entrance. So we get there at 6pm and no one was there, we were the first people at the venue apart from the people hosting the wedding. I didn’t really mind, to be honest, as I got to meet all the family that was filtering in at different times, but the core family got to the venue at around 9pm, which was after most people had arrived. So all the family is talking and before we know it is 10pm. At this time, my cousins and I decided to go to the groom’s wedding procession and start dancing there, which was a great time. We were all dancing at the entrance at around 11pm and the wedding was meant to start at 9pm!

Finally, we had the groom’s entrance, which took about half an hour to get to the actual venue where the wedding was taking place. While this was going on, I had a quick bite to eat, and then it was off to the wedding rituals, which started at 12 a.m., a whole three hours after the designated start time. It was decently fun looking at all the rituals, but when I looked out at around 1 a.m., the whole venue was empty, and only the core family was left. I have never seen such tardiness in my life, and I guess all of the stereotypes of Indians are actually true. But overall, the food was pretty good, especially the cake. P.S. it was bloody cold in the evening and my tonsils are killing me as I am typing this.

Anyways, I will see you guys tomorrow.

Friday 13th December ’24

Today was a good day. I was busy the whole day at the wedding, and nothing else was on my mind. I had a fun time dancing, and the food was delicious. Oh, and a kid priest came to the wedding at the end, which was pretty—I don’t know how to say this—weird, I guess. He’s called Aryan Bhagat, and he is apparently a priest at the age of nine! He gave a pretty good, insightful sermon, but I couldn’t get over the fact that he was a kid. I definitely thought something fishy was going on, with maybe his parents telling him to stay these things and that he was forced into this life, but he seemed quite a pleasant kid. I did sit with him when he was eating, and he was acting the same as the same lively kid that I saw at the sermon, saying jokes that a child at his age should not be able to come up with and make a whole room laugh. I will give it to you, though he was quite a smart kid, but I still don’t know what goes on behind the scenes for him to get like this.

I think that today is a strong start for this journey, and am glad that I have not left this. I feel more motivated then ever to continue doing this. I am going to go into more story times in the future and will not make the journal entries this short.

Anyways, I will see you guys next time.

Thursday 12th December ’24

Man, what the fuck happened to me. I don’t even know what happened; I just stopped trying after the third post. I was too busy the day after my previous post and before I know it I am in December in a foreign fucking country being all depressed about my life. This past month I have been feeling hopeless and have gotten back into my vices. I have been the unhappiest I have ever been and now think that I am at the lowest point of my life. Well you know what they say, once you hit the bottom the only place to go know is up. But knowing me I will probably find a way to dig myself a new hole to fucking cry in. Well lets just say it I am a fucking porn addict and it has taken over my life. I don’t know how to get rid of it and I have been trying everything but nothing seems to work for me. I don’t even know why I have been putting this off but I can’t be asked to talk about this any longer, I will talk about it more in detail another day.

On another note, I am in India right now for my cousin’s wedding and it is quite nice. The weather and the food are both good, but I guess because of this I haven’t been able to enjoy myself fully. So from today I am going to promise myself that I will at least try to make an effort to post her everyday, because I do truly believe that this is the answer to a lot of my problems.

Anyways, I am done talking, I got to go to sleep I will see you tomorrow.

Monday 17th November ’24

Today marks the first day of starting this blog, I wanted to start on remembrance day which was on the 11th but the fucking website took me a whole week to actually make (this is the 5th iteration). Well I guess let’s get started, I posted a shabby picture for this day as I think it resembles my day-to-day quite perfectly – pretty anti-climactic. I guess that’s how today feels as well, I thought it would be more exciting starting my own blog but I think because it took me so long to actually make the site the excitement wore off. Well enough of that, Well enough complaining and onto the actual post.

I labelled this as the trek to base camp as I feel like I haven’t even built my foundation yet. I think I still have a long way to go before I even attempt to climb this mountain. This blog will help me on my journey as I am going to reflect on my day every single day or at least I hope so, with my goal being every day I have improved from the previous day. What I mean by building my foundation is that I wish to have developed certain habits before I chuck myself into the deep end of self-improvement. The habits I intend to build by the base camp:

1. Have a set sleep and waking up schedule
2. Having a consistent routine of going to the gym
3. Getting into the habit of always having a new skill I am learning

I guess those three are good launchpads to get started on, in this blog I will keep you up with my day-to-day, give a story time here or there and tell you more about how I am feeling. I guess the moral of the story is that I have no fucking clue where this is going to go and that seems kind of exciting to me, so without further ado lets start this fucking journey.