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Gokarna!
The beach
was far from the clean beaches I was expecting (expectation: Phuket, reality:
ECP + more murky waters). Nonetheless I had a blast just chilling, lazing around
the quaint little town. We headed for Kudle beach which was really off the
tracks and we saw so many dogs, cows and even saw a turtle at the beach which
was caught by one of the locals.
I was really baffled at how the locals could proudly kill a poor helpless harmless creature that is on the verge of being extinct. We even wanted to pay them to buy it so that we could free it back into the sea but decided that either way it won't deter them from catching more. It was painful, because later we walked past again and saw the turtle dislocated from it's shell with blood all around. How humans are even capable of doing that amazes me, and there were different emotions all swirling inside me - rage, helplessness, empathy, disgust, respect. I now know why environmental conservation is going to be an uphill feat in India with it's exponentially growing population and deeply embedded mindsets.
The trip was truly an
Indian experience – from the non AC sleeper buses to the blackouts in the
shower to getting caught in the rain to riding the waves to sharing food with
flies.
Chillout
weekend was great, next weekend will be a packed one hopefully :)
So very
thankful for the experience and I have a sinking feeling I’ll be bawling my
eyes out when the homies leave :’(
“some people feel like they don't deserve love. they walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
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