Welcome to Caught in the Shuffle.
If you’re looking for perfectly colour-coded itineraries, 10-step life hacks, or someone who has life beautifully figured out…
…you’re probably on the wrong blog.
This little corner of the internet is for exploring the chaos called life—the kind that involves spontaneous road trips for a single glass of lassi, questionable decisions in the mountains, learning how to build a home from scratch, and discovering that adulthood is mostly just Googling things you thought someone would eventually teach you.
The Core Ingredients
The Duo
It all starts with two unsupervised kids who somehow ended up marrying each other.
The coincidence? We share the exact same birthday.
The consequences? Still unfolding.
The Travel Philosophy
We don’t really believe in itineraries. We believe in mountain luck.
The best memories usually happen after trekking three hours uphill with a bag that suddenly weighs twice as much, only to have the Himalayas quietly stare back at you at eye level, as if they knew you’d eventually make it.
The Great Unplugging
One of my favourite discoveries is that I don’t become invisible just because I’m not visible on a feed.
Sometimes the best memories are the ones that never become content. They’re busy being lived instead of filmed, edited, filtered, captioned, and posted.
The Adulting Curve
It’s messy.
It’s discovering that freedom comes with a domino effect of chores.
It’s realising that buying a steam iron or finally finding the perfect warm reading lamp can bring an embarrassingly unreasonable amount of happiness.
No one tells you these are adult milestones.
The Rule I am Still Learning
I’m a chronic over-improver.
Whether it’s editing a blog, painting a flower pot, or rearranging a room for the fifth time, I have an incredible talent for continuing long after something is already good enough.
I am learning that sometimes “finished” is better than “perfect.”
I don’t have life figured out.
Honestly, I hope I never do.
Because the best stories have never started with a perfect plan. They usually begin with a wrong turn, an unexpected conversation, a cancelled itinerary, or a decision that seemed slightly questionable at the time.
If any of that sounds familiar, I think you will fit in just fine here.
So whether you have come for travel stories, thoughtful observations, the occasional life lesson hidden inside an ordinary moment, or simply to spend a few quiet minutes away from the noise.
welcome to the shuffle.
Grab a coffee. Or better yet, a glass of makhaniya lassi.
Let’s get a little lost together.
