Last weekend I was at a wedding in Jaipur, and unfortunately, my trusted Stanley cup couldn’t make the trip with me. I suppose it would have been wildly impractical for me to be carrying it around anyway, since I was barely able to carry myself around in heavy Indian clothes, high heels, and a handbag that couldn’t fit my phone. While I managed to get through most of the weekend by drinking from glass bottles or occasionally asking for filtered hot water, the real dilemma struck after some dhol and dancing under the sun – I needed to hydrate after the baraat, and to my dismay, the only options available at the time were small Himalayan plastic bottles.

Somewhere between the need to quench my thirst and the guilt of contradiction, I realised something: maybe the real problem is that we’re trying too hard to be perfectly sustainable instead of just being sustainably human.

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