u/HotPants4444

33M from Mumbai, firmly childfree, trying something slightly outside my comfort zone here because finding CF people organically in India feels nearly impossible unless you accidentally overhear someone saying kids are optional actually in public and immediately try to become their friend. Most often I found the opposite to be true where people judge you a lot for being CF or outright attack you for it. The worst was when a genius asked me to consider the duties to the country about replacement rate. 🤣

Not really here with a dating angle right now. Mostly looking for people I genuinely get along with. Friends first has always made more sense to me anyway.

I spend a lot of time walking. Like genuinely a lot. I have Shadow living under my roof (dog tax attached at the bottom, obviously), but somehow know over 30 dogs in my neighborhood and meet at least 5-10 of them every day on our walks. Some walks are intentional, some are just me wandering around because Mumbai decided to give us 40 minutes of weather that does not involve me melting in the heat like a candle inside an oven.

I absolutely love road trips. Car trips, bike trips, doesn’t matter. I am usually the one planning routes, backup routes, emergency supplies, and carrying enough things in the car to survive minor civilization collapse scenarios, but I enjoy spontaneity a lot. I love waking up at 6 AM and deciding to go on a 400 km round trip for absolutely no reason beyond the itch to go out.

I once decided to ride to Bhutan for 14 days with 3 days of notice and somehow that still feels normal to me.

Travel-wise, I have covered most of the country at this point. Apart from Pondicherry and the 7 sisters, I have been to every state and UT, often multiple times. I enjoy the journey as much as the destination honestly. Random tea stalls, conversations with random truck drivers in Salt lake city, having a beer or two with fishermen in karwar, riding through hail storms, finding unexpectedly good food in the middle of nowhere (an excellent aunty making makki di roti and saag somewhere in Himachal), all of it.

Music-wise, I lean heavily into rock and metal and pretty much all their derivatives. If a song has a good guitar riff, I am probably already interested regardless of language. I 'play' the guitar too. Decently on good days, terribly on most others.

Into art as well, though inconsistently. I paint once in a blue moon but still somehow manage to keep art piece in every room. Some commissioned, some painfully my own. You'll immediately know which is which!

Animal people preferred. Strongly preferred honestly. I want pets to always be part of my home and life. Shadow is great with cats too, so if left entirely to me, I would probably end up with 2 dogs, 3 cats, and a yard somewhere in the mountains where we both work remotely.

Firmly CF myself and planning to get a vasectomy soon because I would honestly love for the entire when-are-you-having-kids conversation to be done once and for all! Told an aunt about it recently and she immediately asked me if I was closeted 🤣.

Anyway, if any of this sounds relatable and you are looking for more CF friends too, feel free to reach out. Especially if you enjoy long drives, spontaneous plans, animals, guitars, aimless walks, or conversations that randomly start at 11 PM and somehow become philosophical by 2 AM. I could talk about the sun, stars, moon and everything in between. One Two