Documenting my 10-day trip to Meghalaya taken in the February of 2025. Ed Sheeran was going to be performing live in Shillong, and since I’d never been to the northeast, I thought this would be a good excuse to make a trip out of it. This blog is meant as a guide for other fellow travelers plus a way to document the trip for me so I can come back and read it sometime in the future :)

I wish I could live multiple lives. Some days I just want to have enough to live in a cabin by the beach, read all day, play board games with my friends in the evenings, and spend my time appreciating the calmness of the ocean waves. Other days, I want the world. I want to move to Silicon Valley, work in big tech, start my own company, and be really, really successful[1].

I used to believe that I don’t need people. Or communities. That one can be alone and still be content. I no longer believe that. I think our brains are hardwired to find a sense of belonging, a community, and we can’t be happy without that. And it can be hard. For me, finding people who were like me, who had the same interests, was hard. That’s why I guess, as a coping mechanism, I used to tell myself that I’m happier alone.