My India☽
Going to India changed my perception of the world, it opened my mind and my heart.
Everyone kept asking me why I chose India out of all the places in the world?
I was always very drawn to it, but I didn’t have the answer until I returned home...
The first couple of weeks in India can be difficult, but keep at it, and keep an open mind.
Open your heart to the people you meet and don’t build walls around yourself.
It was only when I opened myself up to India, and gained confidence of local people, that my life changed and I started to live my India.
Once I discovered India’s incredible diversity and scratched beneath the surface I found myself in a land like no other and I fell in love with it.
Spiritually this country is incredible, the rivers, mountains and animals are all worshipped.
Temples and churches are part of the landscape and marigolds decorate the shrines that litter the streets.
Race and religion don’t divide, Hindu’s celebrate with the Buddhists, Buddhists celebrate with the Christians, neighbours are friends and communities are family.
I left with friends for life and most of them don’t have half of what I have at home, yet happiness and laughter full their hearts.
This community puts all the things you have or think you don’t have into perspective.
The gratitude you gain spending time here will turn what you have into enough and its people’s fight for survival and recognition is inspirational.
This country was chosen to teach compassion to the rest of the world and I personally gained so much being one of its students.
I decided to travel solo and discover myself and India.
Solo travel is an opportunity to explore your personality.
It’s a chance for you to introspect on your thoughts, dreams, strengths and limitations.
How about exploring on feet, how about staying with the locals, how about getting a chance to form new friendships, how about travelling in shared taxis. Doesn’t it sound exciting?
I can also say that this experience has given me terrific moments to keep for my entire life, which has built me into a strong yet compassionate person by heart.
Today, I am grateful for even the smallest thing I have in my life.
When you see people living in extreme conditions and still courageous enough to survive, you tend to stop making excuses for your own life.
There were times when I fought, rebelled, struggled but I never gave up, NEVER.
And do you know what?
I shed far more tears when it came time to board my plane back to Italy than I did at the beginning of my adventure.
