1-Every day I wake up with the same goal: Do not get hit by any kind of motorized vehicle today. So far so good on goal number one.
2-Stay hydrated, I always have a bottle of water in my back-pack, and only once so far have I completely depleted my stores (on an overnight bus ride). Luckily drinking water is readily available here.
3-Avoid sketchy situations, again so far so good. My dodgiest spots have been fake friends; people here are really friendly in general, but sometimes people just approach me to get me to buy something or to later demand money from me. Usually I can sense this coming, but I don't want to get too paranoid. Today an over aggressive saleswoman pretended to want to shake my hand, then grabbed me and stained a henna "OM" onto my palm and proceeded to demand 15 rupees (no rupees were rendered).
4-Remember to treat everyone with human dignity, even when situations would make it easier to act otherwise (see above anecdote). Some people's situations really are desperate.
5-Eat food. This is easy enough, but its hard to make healthy eating decisions as mosty the readily available eats consist of some sort of fried dough, and with going all veg, its hard to get protein. I think I am slowly growing skinnier as I deplete my fat and muscles for reserves for energy.
6-Find time to relax. Sometimes this is hard in a country of 1+ billion people.
7-Spend some time thinking about my friends and family. This is no problem, I think of you all the time.
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