You Don’t Need a Week Off. Sometimes, Just Two Days Can Change Everything.

I was literally just lying in bed thinking about how one small trip can change you. like actually change you, your whole perspective, idk how else to explain it. anyway for me that trip was udaipur. two three days away. that's it. that's all it took apparently.

ok so my parents took me and i'm still not over it honestly. udaipur is not a JUST A  place. it's SO royal it doesn't even feel real, like i kept forgetting i wasn't in a movie. NAINA, YOU WERE SO RIGHT ABOUT UDAIPUR. three days and i genuinely did not want to come back, I think I actually said that out loud like five times and everyone got annoyed w me lol. i just got so into being there that i forgot i even have a life waiting for me at home, like everything just. didn't exist for a bit.

we went because a family friend had an event, and the resort we stayed at was insane, like actually one of the most beautiful places i've ever been. and ok i have to say this bc it's crazy, my screen time was one hour a day. ONE. i haven't seen that number since like 2019 probably. and it's honestly wild how different it feels being somewhere you've always wanted to go and actually being there for it, not watching your own trip happen through your phone screen like i normally do without even realizing.

also the drive there was genuinely half the trip for me. every chai stop. every dhaba on the highway that looked sketchy but wasn't. rajasthan dhabas are CRAZY. I'm sorry, the best food I've had in so long. I was just. happy. The whole time. happy to be there, happy to see everyone, happy to see somewhere that wasn't the same five places i always go. udaipur might be my favorite place in india now ngl.

anyway not to get deep out of nowhere but, we all kind of live in these loops right, wake up, check phone, pretend everything's fine, do it again tomorrow. and some days just feel heavy for no real reason, or not no reason, just reasons that are hard to explain, like stuff that never got said out loud, or feeling like people don't fully get you, and your energy just slowly goes down without you clocking it until one day you look up and you're like wait who even is this.

you don't need some huge vacation for that btw. sometimes it's just distance. new air. a sky that hasn't watched you cry yet, i don't know why that line stuck with me so much but it did. you leave the pressure of being "on" all the time, the explaining, the noise, and suddenly you're just drinking chai on some roadside laughing about literally nothing and not caring who sees. everything slows down. and so do you, i guess.

you pack light, not just your bag, your heart too, if that makes sense. and somewhere in there something shifts. i can't explain it better than that honestly.

so yeah. take the break. doesn't have to be a whole different state, doesn't have to be big. alone, with your family, a cafe, a park, whatever's around you. Just go somewhere. it genuinely feels different, i promise.