The title of my post is misleading isn't it? Well this syndrome happens when a person has to travel in the cramped economy class seats on long flights. But a traveler is not the one on the business class of a flight, a traveler is one who has walked the long roads with the company of his map and a backpack, one who has traveled on the roof top of a heavily crowded village bus. For a traveler its all about moving, i think one does not travel to go anywhere, traveling is all about the change. There are always different people you meet, every corner of the street is new. It's almost like a new adventure every step, you cannot cross a street or turn on a corner without the adrenaline rush. Moreover, when you are in a new town, a new place with new people, you can be anything and anyone you want and that's the best part. You can leave behind your identity with the old place and can adapt a new one just like an impressionist....:)
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she loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves how it changes itself with every wave and leaves behind its impression's on the sand because after all impression is all that we leave behind. |
It's drizzling and you are walking along a long road in a small town with a backpack and your thoughts to your company, you come across a small place for tea, that smell of wet sand mixed with aroma of kulhad chai, isn't it just transcendent. That's what it is to travel old school, like walking in the french colony of pondycherry with the smell of sea.
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu.
Yeah that's true, a traveler is very hard to commit to one place. They tend to get bored of a place if stayed too long, they always need change, a new face, a new adventure to conquer. A traveler cannot settle for a sunny day for a week being haunted by the thoughts of a place somewhere covered in clouds and smell of wet sand. He can travel to a place where there is no path but cannot walk on the same road each day for the rest of his life.
And that my friend's is the beauty of a traveler, one who explores himself with every new place he pioneer's.
