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.

Everyone’s relationship with money is different based on how we’ve grown up. When I started earning money, there was a lot I didn’t know. It was the first time I had money, and I was scared to lose it, to spend it, or do anything with it. I just wanted it to sit there and keep accumulating. I had heard horror stories of people being irresponsible with money and losing everything, so every time I spent it, I felt guilty.

Earlier this month, we had our annual company offsite. Being a remote company with team members scattered across the globe we don’t get to meet as often as we’d like. The offsite provides a way for us to catch up and meet each other in person. This was the third year we were doing it, and we added a new activity that I personally liked a lot: Lightning Talks! As part of this, people could sign up for a 5-minute talk on absolutely anything.