For me, one of the most challenging things about traveling is going back home. Retaining the knowledge gained while traveling, the insights, the richness of each and every day spent away from the safety and the routine I have created, the adventure-like freedom that “normal” life lacks, bringing it all back into the experience of every day life are ambitious tasks. Then what is the purpose of spending all that money and time if it is not growth?
Every time I visit a new place my heart and soul slightly change shapes. Instead of going through the daily brain vs heart fight over control, the soul takes over. And the epicenter of this life’s core becomes clearer for a brief moment.
(Dawn at Sifnos, Summer 18′)
If I could bring just one souvenir back from my travelings, it would be this: the ability to see every day as an opportunity for adventuring. It is so easy to get caught up in the assumption that nothing changes when you’re in the loop of your typical work week; It is also a lie brought to you by one of this world’s most favorite candy called escapism, the notion claiming that in order to give birth to new ideas and experiences, one needs to take a break from “reality”. Admitting all the joyful and painful experiences, realizing that these events are integrated parts of you, you being the cause and effect of everything happening around you, are excellent steps towards changing what you don’t like. Many of us would rather be somewhere else right now, but since we are not, why not enjoy what we have, while in the meantime keep building what we need in order to get where we want to be? Sounds more complicated than it is, especially if one forgets that time can actually for once be on your side, if only you decide to stop wanting to escape..