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On a mission to tick off my 30-before-30 list 🙈
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& the girl (@suchiii_padhwal) behind them✨

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T-123 ✨ | apparently my love language is very specific 🌸❣️🤍

Not grand gestures.
Not dramatic speeches.

Just tiny oddly specific things. 😌

Like remembering my McD order.
Giving me the last cone bite of the ice cream 🍦
Letting me have the window seat.
Matching my excitement over very small achievements.
And understanding that sometimes giving space is also a form of care. ✨

I think the older I grow, the more I realise love quietly exists in the smallest things.

And honestly?
Inside jokes that never die might be one of humanity’s greatest inventions. 😭🤍

#Turning30Journey #LittleThings #LifeInProgress #PersonalDiary #SoftThoughts

(relatable, softlife, humour, relationships, storytelling, littlethings, wholesome, growingup, personality, comfort) taken in Panambur Beach. by @__beforeiam30

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T–135 ✨ | Random things that make me happy

Flowers, obviously 🌸
Gossip sessions with mumma and behn >>>
Our reflections by the shore under the sun
A spoon of ghee in Rajma — PEOPLE you need to try this
Winters (Himachal really does that to you)
Scented candles making even the most ordinary night feel cozy
Rainbows — tiny reminders that beautiful things appear after messy skies 🌈
Netflix — because apparently I can’t sleep without “just one episode”
Ocean — both the drink and the actual one 🌊🥤

Tiny things. Unreasonably big happiness 🤍

What’s one random thing that instantly makes you happy?

#littlethingsinlife #lifemoments #maincharacterenergy #cozyvibe #simplejoys by @__beforeiam30

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T-134 ✨ | Who am I without my Mata Rani? 🤍

All my faith, all my beliefs somehow begin and end with Mata Rani.

Growing up in Chintpurni Temple — one of the Shaktipeeths — faith was never something we had to learn separately. It was just part of life. Part of home. Part of us.

Every good thing, every bad thing… we were always told the same thing:
“Leave it to Mata Rani. She’ll take care of it.”

And somehow, we believed it with our whole hearts.

Then life happened.
I moved out for studies, explored the world outside home, met different people, different perspectives… and somewhere in between, I started questioning that faith too.

At one point, I even stopped believing completely.

But somehow… I found my way back.

Not in the loud, perfect, religious way.
I’m not someone who goes to the temple every day or follows every ritual perfectly.

Mine is a quieter kind of faith now.

Random little thank yous.
Random wishes.
Some selfish.
Some emotional.
Some said only in my head.

But always to her. 🤍

And maybe that’s what faith becomes as you grow older — not fear, not perfection… just comfort.
A feeling that someone, somewhere, is listening when life feels too heavy or too beautiful to hold alone. ✨

Have you also found your way back to a faith you once questioned? 🤍

#MataRani #SpiritualJourney #LifeInProgress #FaithAndHealing #Turning30Journey

(blessings, healing, faith, spirituality, comfort, growth, personaldiary, innerpeace, devotion, storytelling) taken in Bangalore, India by @__beforeiam30

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T-110 ✨ | To us 🍻
@abv.blr - we had the best time 🫶🏻

#littlethings #saturday #coupleshoot #anniversary #him by @__beforeiam30

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T-111 ✨ | No caption 🙈 by @__beforeiam30

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T-112 ✨ | Goal 8/30 : cook loads and loads of food 🍜

I genuinely don’t know where my obsession with food came from… but I have a feeling it started back home. ✨

Our village didn’t really have fancy cafés, big food streets, random munching spots, or late-night cravings delivered to your door. 😌

What we did have was:
a kitchen always full of something cooking,
home-grown vegetables,
and way too many people experimenting at once. 🤍

All of us — siblings, cousins — would watch something on TV and immediately decide to make our own version of it at home.

Half the time it looked nothing like the original.
But somehow it always tasted better because of the chaos involved. 😭✨

Then life happened.
Everyone moved to different cities, different routines, different lives.

But somehow during covid, all of us ended up back under the same roof again. 🤍

Except this time, we came back with stories, experiences, and food habits picked up from different cities and cultures.

Someone knew how to make momos.
Someone became obsessed with pasta.
Someone learnt fancy coffee.
Someone suddenly cared about plating food like a MasterChef contestant 😌✨

And somehow… our inner chefs woke up all over again.

So now one of my goals before 30 is simple:
learn every dish I fall in love with at restaurants and recreate it at home someday. 🤍

Because for me, food has never just been food.
It’s memories, experiments, chaos, comfort, gossip sessions, and love served in different forms. ✨

And honestly… the journey is still continuing. 😌🍜

P.S : Today we mark 6 months of engagement, so this feels extra special for him. 🤍 One of our favourite things to do together is cook, experiment with random recipes, and turn simple evenings into little memories in the kitchen. ✨🍜

#Turning30Journey #FoodieLife #CookingTherapy #LifeInProgress #LittleThings

(food, cooking, storytelling, family, recipes, homecooking, softlife, comfortfood, memories, wholesome) taken in Bangalore, India by @__beforeiam30

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T-113 ✨ | when you realise tomorrow is a holiday and suddenly life feels better ✨

It’s actually funny how one random mid-week holiday can completely change your personality. 😌

Suddenly the sky looks prettier.
Food tastes better.
Work feels manageable.
And somehow everyone becomes happier overnight. ✨

No major life updates.
No problems solved.
Just the comforting feeling of knowing there’s no alarm for tomorrow. 🤍

Mid-week holidays really are adult therapy at this point. 😌✨

#Turning30Journey #MidWeekMood #LifeInProgress #LittleThings #SoftLife

(midweek, holiday, relatable, adulting, softlife, humour, storytelling, cosy, peaceful, vibes) taken in Bangalore, India by @__beforeiam30

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T-115 ✨ | chooda vadai ft. chaos 🤡🤍

Chooda vadai is one of those little traditions where sisters come together for the new bride — changing the chooda, giving blessings, doing all the rituals, and mostly just creating memories together. ✨

And during the wedding, everything happened SO fast that we barely got time to properly sit together, do our masti, laugh, annoy each other, and actually enjoy it all. 😭🫠

So this Saturday was basically our delayed “let’s finally do this properly” version. 🤍🌸

Full chaos.
Zero coordination.
Too many people talking at once.
Someone always laughing.
Someone always giving instructions nobody follows 😌✨

And honestly… I think that’s exactly what made it special.

Because somewhere along the way, these people stopped feeling like “just friends.” They became my brothers/sisters from another mothers. 😌✨

The kind who saw me during phases where I genuinely wasn’t my best self.
The low phases.
The confusing phases.
The “I have no idea what I’m doing with life” phases.

And somehow… they stayed through all of it. ✨

I think that’s what family really becomes as you grow older.Not always just blood… but people who quietly become part of your foundation. 🤍❣️

So no matter how much life changes, I know these are the memories we’ll keep coming back to.

Messy. Loud. Emotional. Full of love. 😌✨

Also… @prashkain_1511 man what is this camerawork??? 😭🎥

#Turning30Journey #FamilyThings #ChoodaVadai #LifeInProgress #LittleThings

(family, traditions, relationships, memories, wedding, wholesome, storytelling, softlife, chaos, love) taken in Bangalore, India by @__beforeiam30

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Honestly we didn’t play mafia, mafia played us haha. 🤣🤣

#mafia #gamenight #friends #funnyvideos #funny taken in Bengaluru,Karnataka by @__beforeiam30

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T-119 🌸 | Apparently my medicine today came wrapped in petals.

Sick day, slow day, soup-on-the-side kind of day… but somehow flowers still manage to make everything feel a little softer.
Maybe healing also looks like pausing, resting, and holding pretty things for no reason ✨

What’s your tiny comfort thing on bad days? 🌷

#SlowDays #SoftMoments #FlowersMakeEverythingBetter #CozyVibes #littlethingsmatter taken in Bangalore, India by @__beforeiam30

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T-121 ✨ | Goal 7/30 : no more EMIs 😌✨

Not the fanciest goal on the list.
Not aesthetic.
Definitely not Pinterest-worthy. 😌

But maybe one of the most important ones for me. ✨

Somewhere between education loans, car loans, EMIs, and “I’ll figure it out later” decisions… adulthood became very real, very fast.

And I think a lot of us quietly carry this pressure —
to build a life, support our dreams, help our families, enjoy the present… while constantly calculating numbers somewhere in the back of our minds.

So before turning 30, one of my biggest goals was simple: to slowly become loan free. 🤍

Not because loans are bad.
Sometimes they’re the reason we get to study, move cities, build things, or give ourselves opportunities our younger selves once dreamed about. ✨

But there’s something deeply peaceful about imagining a life with fewer dues and lighter shoulders.

And honestly… I still can’t believe that last month, I actually achieved it. 😌✨
I am loan-free ( if that’s a term🫠 )

No more EMIs.
(only to now become eligible for bigger adult loans probably 🤡)

#Turning30Journey #LifeInProgress #Adulting #FinancialGoals #PersonalDiary

(adulting, loans, financialfreedom, growingup, relatable, lifegoals, storytelling, realtalk, healing, softlife) taken in Malpe beach, Udupi by @__beforeiam30

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T-124 ✨ | Adiyogi felt unreal. 🖤

I recently was made to realise something funny about myself — I never say “Shiv ji.”

Apparently, I always say “Shiv ji ji.” 🔱🕉️🌸

Two “jis.”
No idea why.

But I think that’s just how I’ve said it since childhood, and somehow it stayed. 🤍

Growing up, Shivratri in our village was a BIG thing.
The whole village used to fast together and then break their fast together too.

There would be kirtans through the night, people everywhere, so much energy in the air that the entire week genuinely felt different somehow. ✨

Almost like Shiv ji ji himself was powering all of us through it. 🖤

And now living in Bangalore, knowing Adiyogi is so close always made it feel like a place we had to visit someday.

So since my parents are here, we finally did. 🤍

And honestly… it was unbelievable.

In daylight, Adiyogi felt peaceful, calm, grounding.
And at night?
The lights, the energy, the whole atmosphere suddenly felt so powerful… almost unreal. ✨

Same Shiv.
Same place.
Completely different energy. 🖤

सुख में शिव, दुःख में शिव…
शांत भी वही, शक्ति भी वही। 🤍

#Turning30Journey #Adiyogi #Shiv #LifeInProgress #SpiritualJourney

(shiv, adiyogi, spirituality, peace, power, faith, storytelling, travel, taken in Adiyogi Statue Chikkaballapur by @__beforeiam30

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