#endofatrip

Location: Dharmasala, India Date: June 24th, 2014 Notes:  This is my last image from India, a single Himalayan peak off in the distance. The mountains and wilderness had been the original reason I wanted to visit India and Nepal, but by the time I had left Dharmasala on a bus back to Delhi I found myself not wanting to continue, nor did I feel I had the energy. So upon arrival in Delhi I booked myself a flight from India back home to Thailand. Many people asked me why I had returned to so soon, after departing, speculating a whole range of reasons. And for each person I gave a variety of half answers partly because I didn't know why, and the part I did know I didn't want to accept. To clarify, it wasn't anything to do with India itself or the act of travelling in any way. The problem was a sort of mental dark cloud that I had been fighting off successfully before, due to work and school had successfully stuck itself to floating above me for months afterwords, and still reappears from time to time. Having recently become interested in Philosophy and within that domain concerned deeply with ethics, I began to deeply question my own lifestyle and values, and the lives of others. Questions of material wealth, environmental destruction, how best to be part of a society or at least how best to survive in my own in modern society bogged me down... Lately I've been feeling better not cured, but more willing to pursue the lifestyle I want to live, less willing to compromise or fall in with societies norms for the sake of refusal to challenge systems I was raised to believe in from youth. Anyway this entry is a bit more personal (emotional) than previous entries. My initial goal when starting this blog was to avoid being overtly personal and to focus on the bright side of travel. The mountain in the photo above is perhaps one of my favorite photo's, because I will travel back to India and Nepal and climb its mountains and visit its wilderness, its kinda a mental promise. A person should not only have positive associations with travelling. In fact if a well travelled person told me that they had loved every adventure they embarked upon I would doubt their honesty, towards themselves or me. Secondly I would doubt the type of travelling they do and would suggest they seek a greater challenge when travelling.