A Traveler's Thought Journal

Have you ever had a light bulb moment that told you, maybe, just maybe, you aren’t "normal"? Stay with me here. My definition of normal and yours can be wildly different, and that’s okay. Why are we so obsessed with conforming? I used to think I wasn't. I was wrong.   I thought I was comfortable standing out. But I made the mistake of assuming that "standing out" was my default state - that it took no effort, no alertness.   I realized that your comfort state and your default

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is completely normal.” -Viktor Frankl The past six months have been a roller coaster of heightened emotions. Big changes, one after another—leaving Chicago, moving to Bangalore, starting business school in Hyderabad, and now working again. Underneath it all was a familiar feeling: being out of place. Of not belonging. Yet again. Recently, I met a friend from New York who was visiting India. Seeing him made me realise how much emo

Adjusting back to Indian culture has been harder than I imagined when I landed in Bangalore with a one-way ticket from Chicago O’Hare. 🛬...