New Year's: Reflecting on a past trip that changed my viewpoint!
On the midnight of the glorious New Year of 2025, I would like to reflect back on a beautifully memorable trip that I went on last year. The vivid experiencess of this trip taught me a lot of new things and reminded me of old values hidden deep inside my mind. My family and our family friends went on a trip to Mathura that is situated in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It started with the 7 of us narrowly missing our early morning train to New Delhi, from where we would take a train to Hazrat Nizamuddin and another to our destination. We changed trains twice. All of us were tired and the experience of the third train had us completely worn out. We were quite relieved to have reached our guest house in the late afternoon. But, I had contacted a fever, which left me quite weak. But as they say : "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going". Thankfully, my fever and its side effects remained for only that day with the help of an antibiotic and several paracetamols. Th...