Fear is for folks who don’t get out much
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Travel, at its best is creative destruction. In the wisdom of the moment,the power of new language, food and culture and people are not problems to be solved but mysteries to be lived.
The whole exercise has to be reconciliation.Lowering, removing or shattering the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate we human beings, one from another. It's not so much about being understood as understanding.
The Hunt For Happy- is the longing for repetition.
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling our stories from the same facts. Pleasure is not happiness but the joy I have extracted from trips depends more on the mindset I travel with than on the destination I travel to. I don 't want to tell anyone where they ought to travel, but only how and why.
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling our stories from the same facts. Pleasure is not happiness but the joy I have extracted from trips depends more on the mindset I travel with than on the destination I travel to. I don 't want to tell anyone where they ought to travel, but only how and why.
My dream-I haven’t been everywhere, but it is on my list, reveals I never quite get 'over' this travel-thing : it's all still in there somewhere. You have to be like someone to envy them-when you can't relate to somebody, you can’t 't envy them. Not too many people are doing what I’m doing. There is a randomness of #winning and losing, not any justice to it or divine right..
People make my experience vital-That's the mark of a good trip. I never heard a travel agent ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we want to go.
Instead of bringing back 3000 refrigerator magnets, I return from my trips with a collection of small but life-enhancing/ extending thoughts.
Empathy and Sympathy-A Big DistinctionFor instance, Empathy: I see someone zoom past me in a tricked out Lotus today—He is not greedy or flashy but “incredibly vulnerable and in need of love” I know because I drove one in Monaco. I was that guy.
At home we don't usually encounter our true and best selves.
The Things You Own End Up Owning You---but beds last longer than marriages
For instance, Sympathy: I see bitterness, the silent disease (mostly) of domestic relationships take its toll---the habits and confinement of the ordinary, commuter world where, once home, the furniture insists that we cannot change because it doesn't and debt keeps us tethered and stuck to the mundane and profound.I feel that pain, and have an infinite(compassionate) smile for anyone who is grinding it out because I embrace(d) that ennui and burn(ed) it as fuel for my travels. That resignation is like a spot on your shirt that never comes out-So Don't just change your mind, change your shirt.
For instance, Sympathy: I see bitterness, the silent disease (mostly) of domestic relationships take its toll---the habits and confinement of the ordinary, commuter world where, once home, the furniture insists that we cannot change because it doesn't and debt keeps us tethered and stuck to the mundane and profound.I feel that pain, and have an infinite(compassionate) smile for anyone who is grinding it out because I embrace(d) that ennui and burn(ed) it as fuel for my travels. That resignation is like a spot on your shirt that never comes out-So Don't just change your mind, change your shirt.
Rule of thumb is if I am not embarrassed enough by who I was and what I did last year, I probably not learning enough!Some Nostalgia- Pedaling Thoughts
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
In Copenhagen, I went for a bike ride in the center of the city. …In one street lined with uniform apartment buildings, I stopped by a yellow building and felt an intense longing to spend the rest of my life there.
Yet, it seems I may best be able to inhabit a place where I am not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there all the time.
Born in NY, Neurons that wire together fire together. Considering how much inner "nomad" is in each of us, in adulthood I gave myself permission to LEAVE ASAP, and imaginatively re-create(d) my ID in line with my true allegiances of a place noted for second chances, Venice Beach, California.