India: Strikingly Different but So Much the Same

This scene is far from what I imagined for my first trip to India. Instead, I envisioned riding through chaotic streets where cars, tuk-tuks, cows, motorbikes, and pedestrians, expertly weave through poorly-maintained streets; or walking on uneven, trash filled sidewalks shamefully trying to divert my eyes from the countless people whom are homeless and whose eyes are devoid of any emotion but desperation.