A little insight from India

So the other day I was having one of those "hate India" days. This isn't something that I made up, it is a common thing a lot of travellers go through while travelling here. Sometimes things can become so overwhelming and your patience tested to the max that you just want to throw in the towel. Long story short, after a lack of communication at my guest house about food, which I lost money, followed by a rickshaw driver trying to rip me off, which resulted in me walking several kilometers instead, I decided I was having one of those days. But by the end of the day I was back to myself when I went to order some chai from a street vendor. I asked for the chai in Hindi, which he understood, but the language here is Malayalam, which I knew none. The other patrons started laughing at me so all I could do was laugh back and ask what was so funny. I guess Hindi isn't the norm here so they taught me some Malayalam. In the end it was a lot of smiles and laughing, just what I needed after my "hate India" day. Something I think we all know, but forget about at times, is the importance of smiling. Smiling is so universal and can really turn a person's day around. Just something to remember.