“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Replace that with 'place' and you have what I feel for Old Manali. I visited this charming little village of Manali during the Good Friday weekend of March 2024. I first came across Old Manali through videos by travel youtuber Visha Khandelwal , who spent over a month there during lockdown. I left for the place by taking Thursday off from work and since Friday was an off I got four full days off for my trip. In fact, I have learned that slow travelling which truly grabs the essence of each moment is what suits me best. Hectic vacations don’t offer the same sense of escape I crave from the routine of office life. I booked my bus to Manali for 28th March 2024 taking the earliest one at 5.30 PM. In hindsight, I...
text in pic and title from unlively It's always so scary to put your truth out there. You can mean it in one way and people will see it how they want to. How their lives have shaped will define the truth you are sharing with them. It doesn't matter what your heart meant once your truth is out there. Hopefully the one you are sharing your truth and your heart with, they will take it, handle it with care even on the times the way they see it isn't exactly in a nice way or not the way you wanted it to be. And even if it hurts them, they understand you enough to know you did not mean to, you were just speaking out your truth. So that, hopefully, on days when they do the same asking you to carry their weight for a while you carry it for them without weighing the big and smalls.