February fifth
Today was such a good day, and I felt like sitting down to share it. Not in a exciting things were happening way, but in a simply just existing way that warmed my heart.
It´s 10:14 pm and I´m in the common area of my hostel, the fan is swirling and a woman next to me is teaching a class via her computer. I´m trying not to listen as I´m listening to some songs of Yungblud 🎵 currently listening to the greatest parade that I´ve recently discovered through his gig at the festival I saw, but she is talking to a student about the fact she knows he didn´t do his online assignment as she can see he hasn´t even opened the document, which is funny as I can hear the student trying to defend himself and it´s completely obvious he´s lying. I wanted to record a voice note of what I´m currently hearing as I always do, but that feels like an invasion of privacy so I´ll leave it at that.
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I feel like I´m slowly arriving in Thailand, adjusting and appreciating the things that can be appreciated. And I stopped comparing everything to India – I think that played a big role in the fact that I was feeling mixed about it. But I see the good things now, Thailand is so chill and calming and everything feels very easy and manageable - I see why it´s a great destination for first time travelers.
My day today was a mix of a lot of things I love – the beach, mangoes, sun, swimming, music, sunsets, good food – the list goes on.
I slept in as I always do, did some journaling on the terrace of my hostel and had mango sticky rice for breakfast because I felt like it (why wouldn´t I have desert for breakfast?).
My time at the beach consisted of looking at the ocean, swimming in the ocean, looking at the water again, cracking jokes in my head to myself that I had to laugh about, rereading old journal entries, swimming again, just laying down looking at the sky, swimming again, and again, and again. I love being on my own and being able to do whatever I want.
Sometimes, solo travel is shit and sucks but on days like today, I´m happy to be just in my own company. Most days actually. The only times when solo travel sucks is when I´m sick (as I´ve been many many times in countries all over the world). I actually don´t even think I could travel with someone, as I feel like my approach to traveling is quite different from the norm. The only person I would travel with is my boyfriend, as he´s sharing the same view towards traveling. I miss him. I´d love to call him in this very moment but he´s at work.
my little paradise
Around three I went back to my hostel as the sun wandered so much there was barely any shade left on the beach, so I grabbed a coconut on my way back and chilled a little on the terrace of my hostel - I called my Mum, checked my emails and responded to some messages.
Also, yesterday I´ve noticed my first tan lines that got even stronger today which makes me really happy, my face has some natural freckles as I always have when spending so much time in the sun, and my hair is really wavy. I love the way I currently look, I always do when I´m spending lots of time by the beach. Island life looks good on me, one could say. I also slightly burned my chest today but that´s on me because I didn´t wear sunscreen.
Because I was starving, I had some Pad Thai in a little shop just down the street, the owners are lovely and the food is so good so I keep coming back - also there arent´t that many options around but I don´t mind (in fact, I prefer it that way because having so many options to choose from overwhelms my sometimes).
I love love love sunsets, so obviously I went back to the beach around sunset time, taking another mango sticky rice to go and eat at the beach, while listening to Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers – today I decided it´s the best album of them ✶ I just texted this to my boyfriend and he almost agreed, putting By the Way alongside on the pedestal with Stadium Arcadium and also a perfect album to listen to when watching the sunset.
5:53 pm vs 6:31 pm
Now I´m back in my hostel, enjoying coexisting with strangers that I currently live with, and trying not to laugh about the students of said teacher who is still teaching her online class. I kinda miss school when I listen to this. But if I was in school I wouldn´t be in Thailand right now. I´m trying to figure out my travel plans, I wanna stay by the beach, I wanna go to the north of Thailand because I heard it´s beautiful (plus, apparently more vegetarian food options so that´s great), I wanna go back to Mumbai, I wanna go to Goa, I wanna visit my friend in Delhi and I wanna celebrate Holi in India. There´s no way I´ll be able to do it all on the tight budget I´m on, I´m just collecting ideas on what my next month could possibly look like. I don´t have to have it figured out. For now, it´s great to just be, that´s all I need to do. Everything else will come to me when the time is right.
Also, tomorrow is Bob Marleys birthday and I saw flyers of a bar celebrating him tomorrow, I would love to go but since I don´t drive a scooter, I have no way of getting there. Just putting it out there, hoping something will come up.
Until then, I´m sending you sunshine and love. Take care and I´ll talk to you soon!
