Pre-travel nerves

So tomorrow I'm travelling to India for the first time. INDIA. It might not seem like a big deal to some of you, but to me it more or less equals to skydiving without a parachute. Now don't get me wrong here, I'm a fairly seasoned traveller, but just the sheer thought of India scares the living daylight out of me. It contains more than it's fair share of everything that I am afraid of: poverty, filth and lots of creepy crawlies. LOTS of them. Cockroaches. Fly larvae. More fly larvae. Public pooping in streets. Lack of toilets. Lack of toilet paper. Lack of water in toilets lacking toilet paper. Gastrointestinal issues combined with the above and so on...

So why even bother going, I hear you ask? Well, for the very same reason: because it scares the living daylight out of me. And sometimes, there is no better way to tackle life than this. Or I might just have a masochistic streak yet to be discovered.