Go away with … Richa Moorjani

A. I went to my best friend’s wedding in Mumbai with my husband last year. I was so excited for it and also to show my then fiancé the city, because I used to live in Mumbai for a couple of years before I knew him. I had very precisely planned all the people I wanted him to meet, the places I wanted us to visit and for him to just see what my life was like when I lived there. I got so sick the day we arrived, that I ended up missing half of the wedding events and not being able to do any of the things I had planned for my husband and I to do in our short visit. I was so depressed, but the beautiful thing about it was that I was able to just let go of all the expectations and plans I had for the trip, which were actually stressing me out, and I learned my lesson that you can only plan so much and then you just have to go with the flow. We ended up having an amazing experience anyway. I’ll never forget how compassionate, loving and wonderful my husband was when he had to take care of me. These are vacation memories that you can’t plan.