it makes you think

Travel does. It makes you look at your own culture, and how it contributes to the way you form your character, and why you've done the things you've done, and why you do the things you do. I'm now analyzing everything about myself, and whether this evaluation is good or futile, there's still value in it (ha, get it? evalueation). It's made me think of a few saying I've heard, things we've all heard, and challenge them.

Laughter is the best medicine: This is not true. Yes, I laugh, and I laugh a lot. But when you zip around the world and are exposed to all sorts of infections and viruses, sometimes laughter just won't cut it. Remember that. Seriously. You can still laugh, just get antibiotics too.

Home is where the heart is: Well, this saying is kind of true, but not in the sense that everyone takes it as. Take it literal. Your heart is in your body. Home is where your body is. As a transitory person, one must remember there is no permanence to anything. You'll one day move out of your house, your favorite shirt will rip, your car will be totaled, your computer stolen, your parents die, your girlfriend leaves you. The only thing you can truly have is yourself (and even sometimes, not even that), so take it with you. Home is where you are.

It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all: Fuck that, have you ever had your heart broken?

It's a small world: Someone once told me that "if someone says it is a small world then they really live in a small world." Sadly, this person them self was quite small, but it was a good piece of advice- look around you. THE WORLD IS BIG. There are things in your own house, your own town, your own mind you haven't explored. Have and adventure. Talk to a stranger. I could fill up days and days just sitting somewhere, watching people interact with one another. Even the most boring person in the world has had experiences you haven't, and if you take the time to see these and admire them for what they are, maybe you'll discover something about life or yourself. If nothing else, you know something about them.


So yeah, I'm starting to see things in new ways. Each person is on a path, and I don't want my path to be circular, flat and desolate. I want it to be a trek around the world, with ups and downs and rocks and cats and rivers to forge. I want to meet many people on this path, and stop to talk with each and hear how their knowledge of the path can help me with my own. Maybe I'll see you, but it's a big world, so you never know.