Maiden solo trip!

I think the best bit about travelling alone was that I get to be 100% me. 

I'm no daughter, sister, girlfriend, a fellow citizen, colleague, subordinate, friend, classmate nor even an enemy to anyone for that short while. I'm constantly surrounded by people, and there I stood, in the crowd of a society I do not belong to. But no one recognizes me, no knows how glamorous or not my past was, how loved or hated I am by the people around me at home, how big my dreams are about my future, how truthful my every word is. I cannot ditch the influences of  my social upbringing entirely -- I behave still, like a social being --but I experienced indescribable freedom from letting myself off social expectations, and be guided purely by my own conscience, and just follow whatever my heart deems is right. I put my logical set of thoughts, my values, my beliefs, my so-called 'passion' to test and find out where all these ingredients of my very existence are exactly directing me to. I was surrounded by people stark different from myself, tempted to try out all sorts of things, anything at all, in the name of curiosity, no issues with confidence, no worries about looking silly, seeming stupid, sounding lame...

And through this entire process, I get to know myself better. It gets knocked into me who I want to be and who I so never want to become. Willing myself to keep that opened heart and mind, I'm thoroughly humbled by how well-planned everything turned out to be.