a poem that always inspires me…and tonight I can’t say it any better than this man said it:
That is why we need to travel. If we don’t offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses become dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don’t lift to the horizon; our ears don’t hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.
Don’t let yourself become one of these people. The fear of the unknown and the lure of the comfortable will conspire to keep you from taking the chances the traveler has to take. But if you take them, you will never regret your choice. To be sure, there will be moments of doubt when you stand alone on an empty road in an icy rain, or when you are ill with fever in a rented bed. But as the pains of the moment will come, so too will they fall away. In the end, you will be so much richer, so much stronger, so much clearer, so much happier, and so much a better person, that all the risk and hardship will seem like nothing compared to the knowledge and wisdom you have gained.
Kent Nerburn in letters to Mt. Son
There will be moments of doubt, right here in this life that we are leading now…you don’t need to travel to another country …you can challenge convention, and create a life of meaning right here. Don’t let anyone tell you – you can’t.
Millions of creative minds, doing what we do best, on our own terms – that is traveling in our time – that is making real change…sometimes it isn’t very far at all – sometimes it is right here.
A mantra:
Peace, Love, Harmony…and Compassion – keep these, let the rest go.
