Leaving Mc Leod

I was totally decided to leave Mc Leod on a Monday towards Amritsar, but fortune seemed to want to twist things up a bit. So while drinking a beer at Carpe Diem on Friday, I learned that Charlotte and Dan were also heading there, but on Sunday. Deciding whether to go with them or not seemed alike a lot of pressure after such a relaxed time, and I was waiting to know if I could meet with the people of Ecotibet or not during the weekend. And for that I needed to find Eleanor. And so happened that same evening I met with her and managed to sort things out. Ecotibet did not opened on weekends. So an unexpected goodbye party with Clare, Matt, Frank and Charlotte (the other one) was about to go on at the pool place, when it turned out that Charlotte and Dan weren't leaving on Sunday anymore, but on Monday.

I must say that this caused an intense shock on the other Charlotte and me. On her, because I had convinced her to come with us while listening to a band at Jimmy's Italian Restaurant. It wasn't really hard as she was planning to go there anyway on a day and a half trip, going back to Mc Leod to keep on with her English classes with Tibetans. So leaving on Sunday was good for her as she could be back on Monday, and so keep on with the classes.

It shocked me, as I had my mind already focused on leaving that day, and didn't really know how to spend that last Sunday, which I spent hanging around with Clare, Matt and Charlotte, and even went to see a movie.

I've got to realize that making decisions on where to go next and when, while travelling on a long term plan, can get very hard, not necessarily depending on if the previous place is really nice or not, it's just that there are so many things to see, you ain't going to get the chance to see everything. So you want to have a good time, see as much and the best. The amount of pressure this is turns unbearable when things go wrong, and people get on very bad moods. This happens because people focus only on the bad things that surround them, not being able to look at the little good experiences, and how a wrong twist of events can let you learn more than if everything went right. I think it's unbearable in an exciting way, cause it's much more interesting to let go and not commit to anything, specially in a place like India.

So as I saw it, I had more time to spend with the new friends and had a very good Sunday. And finally left as planned on the first place.