I have been away from the technology for quite some time now. I was travelling throughout India. It was a different kind of a journey. I travelled for 18days in one train. Yes the train was my home. The people in it were my family. The landscapes around me were my friends. Yes this was my journey.

Initially when I reached the place where I met 400 new people. They were from different backgrounds, different cultures and they had their own set of views comments and ideas. I thought that I was a complete miss fit and wondered if my decision of going for this trip is right? But as the days passed and I as I interacted with people I realised that I was meant to be there. If they had social and political views I had ideas to share.

I can't believe that I have made such amazing friends that I would treasure for life. everything on the yatra had its own charm, the bath, the food, the rules etc etc. But i must say it was a life time experience. It actually thought me many things on many levels. It thought me to believe that "Society" as an entity exists around me to which till date I had ignored completely. That is because i was very happen in my small cocoon of life. My family, my friends, my so called rocking advertising career, my salary etc were the ones that mattered to me. I was indeed very selfish in my thought process. In short i was too much of myself. But when i met people in this yatra i realized that there are many things to life apart from the " ME factor". This made me think and think and think to a point that i realized I am a changed individual from within. There were people in the yatra who din't know what is a "Khakra" to my astonishment i really couldn't believe that such a set of people ever existed in the world. There were people who are studying for their IAS and have come from a village where electricity hasn't yet stepped in. All of a sudden in a fraction of a second a flash back ran through my mind. When at my place if the electricity would be down even for 10 mins i would very frantically call the Reliance service and fire them for the same.

Now when i look back I wonder...what i did was so wrong. My cribbing all of a sudden seems a useless affair to me, my wants seem to me as a luxury than a necessity, my life seems to be very small rather to put it correctly negligible as compared to what i heard and saw in the 18 days of my journey. Probably after this post my parents would think I am gone crazy, my friends would think that the Mumbai princess is out of her mind. But deep within I know what has this journey done to me.

I will think twice before i buy something from the mall, as I now know the difference between a need and a want.

Luv Adi