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Kutch.

2017 kutch, Kutch nahi dekha to kuchh nahi dekha. May 2017. I visited Vagura, a village in Kutchh, GujaratVagura is comparatively a small village with less pollution and things sorted. People of Vagura are much healthier than people of cities. Their main source of income is Agriculture thus Most of people have their own farms for earning and for daily used vegetables. Each and everyone in the village knows each-other and they share really strong bond. Aged people of village wear traditional clothes, which they have been wearing since ages. While midaged and children wear normal cloths. But when it’s a celebration in the village children wear traditional clothes and it looks amazing. I met 90 years old man, who lost his wife recently. He gets up in the morning around 5 and make meal himself and walks at his farm for 5km and come back in the evening walking. And I met another woman, his relative. She is also roughly 90 years old. She also does her work by her own. Most of the times she doesn’t ask anybody to do anything for her, but if she can’t, she asks her children or grand children or great-grandchildren for help and they do it happily. I had a wonderful experience about Vagura village, what I liked the most was, there is no mobile network, I lived without calls, messages and social media for a week and trust me it was worth. So now the question is what this journey tought me? We have Houses, They have Homes. We have a pool, They have a river. We buy food, They grow theirs. We have a lights, They have stars. We have walls to protect us, They have friends. We have a television, They spend time with family. We have the world, They have the Lord. It’s not about money that makes us rich, It’s simplicity, love, compassion, friendship, values, family and our relationship to god that makes our lives rich.

Kutch.