Love is for the poor,
and money for the rich
but wisdom is reserved
for those who caught the itch
of curiosity for the fact that they exist.
- Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
- Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
- Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
- Énouement: The…
Tell me everything!
What was your favourite place?
Did you meet many people?
Did you have any romances?
How is it to be back?
How was it being on your own?
Would you do it again?
Standard questions. I’ve been asked all of them so many times by so many people, and I still don’t know how to answer any of them. Except the last one. I loved everywhere, I loved everyone, I don’t know how it is to be back because for those months I was an utterly different person. It wasn’t seeing sights and meeting people and trying weird food. It was so much deeper than that. It was the most liberating thing I have ever done, and possibly the most liberating thing a person can ever do; to leave everything behind and mould yourself into anyone you want and to walk freely while you do so.
I have been back from the most life-changing four months of travelling for two weeks now, and it is underwhelming how quickly I have relapsed into old ways of life and overwhelming how much I realise I still have to do in this world
who you are in high school is not who you will be in college and who you are in college is not who you will be when you are 30.
when you accept that you are malleable and ever-changing, you will be less resistant to new ways of thinking and being and you will grow into the beautiful person you are meant to become.
resist the urge to remain stagnant. there are always things to learn about the world and yourself. let yourself learn them.