Today I from Delhi to Dharamsala for about 12 hours. During this trip I saw the countryside of India. I have good news and bad news. You'll get the good news first (because I'm in charge of everything). Good: Like I suspected, not all of India is covered with trash. In fact- the majority of what I have now seen of the country is clean! Boom! I was becoming very anxious about my blog portraying only negative details, and therefore skewing your perception of India... BUT I WORRY NO MORE! What I had been exposed to in the past few days has been slummy. What I saw today was very pleasant ^_^ ! Boy, I was worried I wouldn't see pleasant. I certainly did today.
Remember before I ranted when I said I had bad news? Yeah. So, Bad: All Indians drive the same. I went through mountains with no railings over cliffs of a billion feet in Costa Rica and I thought I was gonna just die. But add on to those conditions the Indian road-culture. How do you think I reacted to this equation? WRONG. I was fine. Key Word: "Desensitization". Definition: When you have almost lost your life enough times to where it just doesn't matter anymore and you hop into the front seat of the Toyota.
lol, no really, I was mostly fine today. I did a lot of thinking today in the car. When a child is exposed to a certain stimulus enough times through development, they grow accustomed and well adapted to handling that situation. In other words, every Indian has dealt with car in their faces enough times to where they are just simply WAY BETTER with awareness. That's my simple explanation.
I just realized that I am getting tore up by mosquitoes.
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