Editor’s Note: Let’s Live, Not Just Exist
If you give me a choice between gold, jewellery, designer bags and travel travel it will always be. Even if you give me a choice between working harder to make more money or packing my bags for the next trip, I’ll pick travel every single time. I’ve been to 48 countries so far, and yet my list keeps growing. There’s just something magical about discovering a new place the smells, the sounds, the faces, the food it reminds me how alive I really am.
We take life far too seriously. We get stuck in our routines, our jobs, our bubbles, and forget there’s a whole world out there waiting to be seen. Taking off on a holiday is not just therapeutic; it’s an awakening. You realise how vast the world is and how small we really are just a speck of nothing in this big, beautiful universe.
Recently, I had the liberty to take close to three weeks off to see Mount Everest something that was on my 81-year-old aunt’s bucket list. Our family, spread across eight cities and countries, decided to join her, and what an experience it turned out to be! Many Tibetan villages we passed through had never seen Indians before. They looked at us like aliens curious, smiling, taking pictures and selfies. The children waved at us everywhere we went, and I’ve never received so many compliments in my life apparently, they loved my big eyes!
At those heights, oxygen is a luxury. We had to buy oxygen masks, pumps, even rooms had built-in oxygen support. Every day felt like a test but also an achievement. It was humbling, surreal, and unforgettable.
That trip reminded me of something we all tend to forget when we die, we take nothing with us. Not our possessions, not our bank balance, not our fancy bags or cars. So why postpone happiness? Why wait for the “right” time to live? Let’s do it now. Let’s travel, explore, feel, and see this magical world while we still can.
Life is meant to be experienced not survived. Let’s make our present count, live with no regrets, and fill our hearts with stories instead of things.
Here’s to new places, new people, and new perspectives.
Happy November — and happy wandering…