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Sameer Husain

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vibes i bring to the function by @sameerhusa1n

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i thought about it for a long time, about how to go about this recap. it's been seven months and more, but i cannot quite get it right in that long a span.
so is the gallery so overwhelming that i dare not go back through all that has happened. a bit painful and a bit too many lives to see.

that being said, this one song i keep coming back to when i wanna reminisce. it's easier this way. not sure why. something to do with the fact that listening is a simple activity. it's easier to just put on the earphones and listen to the song that shuts my brain off and reminds me of all of life that has unfolded, instead of sitting there staring at my phone gallery nitpicking the specifics of what went wrong.

there's a billion songs all infused to a specific minute of the trip, but this one has made it's way to the top. it would be the poster child for my six months backpacking south india. granted, the song very specifically reminds me of a snapshot of time in my life, but i think that specific time is what all of 2025 was leading up to. so i'm grateful for life. and for music - which year by year keeps saving my life. and most of all for oasis. by @sameerhusa1n

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dilli dallying by @sameerhusa1n

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@bereal of the year '25 by @sameerhusa1n

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welcome home by @sameerhusa1n

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10 months ago

"travelled 3,623 miles, just trying to feel alive."

you flash back to your childhood, an innocent crush on misty (because real girls are scary), you flash back to watching animes, your first tattoo inspired by kiki's jiji, every time you're overwhelmed you look for comfort in miyazaki's world. look now, not at a screen but the real world, does it ring the same? no. reality's different. it's not an escape. i almost missed my train in reality (and it would've costed me a fortune in time and money). so it's not good because there's struggles? also no. it made me feel alive when the struggle is mine to choose. not rummaging over ten different excel, or losing your sleep over not being enough for your parents. choosing to live a little. maybe a lot. living is missing the bus because a stranger next to you looked at you twice. it is listening to om shanti om in a random bar with koreans, finns & japanese. it exists when a boy wants to gift you a toy because you look foreign. in being called kawaii by a stranger on the street. in your first snow fall. it also exists in the bad parts. in the loneliness to not be able to connect. in the fuji that remains clouded on the day you plan to visit.

life is worth living when you're alive again.

#japanvlog #japan taken in Tokyo, Japan by @sameerhusa1n

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a year ago

my one month in bombay thru the lens of my drinking habits.

#bombay by @sameerhusa1n

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a year ago

"I lost absolutely nothing that I had owned, I had no bruises or scratches, didn't meet any disagreeable individuals. The only day I had tears in my eyes was when I went to the shrine to pray on my last day. Those were happy tears, melancholic tears, tears of hope and longing for a place. So many things happened, so many places visited, so many memories created. Never have I had a trip go this perfectly. It was as if I was being guided by a higher force always keeping the trouble astray. The last 14 days were a reminder of what awaits my future, because I know I'll find my way back to the place where I left my heart."

(excerpt from my journal - 14.02.2025)

#japan taken in Japan by @sameerhusa1n

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a year ago

I become really weird around my birthday. I cannot find a way to accept how old I'm becoming. I used to be the youngest in any room I entered, and I have always found some comfort in the fact, safety net of sorts for any blunders I might make, "let him be, he's still young'. Slowly but surely that safety net no longer applies.

I'm twenty-three now. And to make peace with that number, I keep doing drastically outrageous things - as you may have gathered from my feed. I do this to justify my existence to myself.

Running 23 kms to celebrate my 23rd birthday was one of them. Most important of them all actually. I find it to be a very simple and direct way of justifying my age.

And when my knees ache just trying to get off the bed, with a back that is hardly able to carry my weight, you bet your ass I'll still run the same number of kilometers as my age - mark my words. And I'll prove to myself that I deserve to live another year.

23FOR23 was a self-hosted half-marathon (23 kms to be precise) by @myself.gaurav16 and I for our 23rd birthday. It took countless days training, planning and executing this. Thank you to @ristooopid for designing the t-shirts, thank you to @akkiracoser for managing the logistics, and thank you to each and everyone of you who woke up at 4 am on a freaking Sunday to fulfill two dumb young adult's vanity project. There will be many more to come.

See you next year :)

#running #birthdayrun by @sameerhusa1n

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a year ago

thirst trap but it's really just me and my cycle taking a bath in a tiny stream i found 🛀

#goa #butterflybeach by @sameerhusa1n

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a year ago

for the lore, for the need to have an insane epitaph, for the want to not be basic, i'll do anything.

i've been travelling the south for a month now, last weekend i decided to speedrun a few cities, i went from kodaikanal to madurai (for their famous jigarthanda), to rameshwaram (to see the last road of india), to kanyakumari (to watch the sunrise at the southmost point in india), to varkala (to rest for the next week). and i did all this with local buses or general bogeys, costing me around INR500 in transport.

this insanity is very unlike me, i have a habit of settling down in every city i visit for a week, but this time i decided to venture out of my comfort zone. i'm never doing it again, but i'm glad to have had this experience.

this is the most vlog-ish that i can go, this was posted as a story first but i do realise that this insanity deserves more attention.

#solotrip #southindia by @sameerhusa1n

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a year ago

'Matters of Consequences', as the Little Prince would call it :)

#pokemon #japan taken in Japan by @sameerhusa1n

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