Rumenations on Travel
Trip Start
Dec 09, 2007
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Trip End
Jul 07, 2008
Bangkok,
Thailand
Monday, May 5, 2008
You also learn such amazing patience and tolerance when traveling. It's a survival technique as well as a positive character trait to have. Problems become challenges and mistakes become forms of variation. Then there are no problems and no mistakes. There is no excessive precaution and fear and there is no guilt and regret. This is because traveling induces a more permanent and lasting sense of presence. it creates fluidity and flexibility as you move through space time and situations with ever increasing efficiency and lucidity. There are some points in fact where the road and individual ceases to exist as mutually exclusive and they even go beyond a partnership to a unique union and the flow of travel is no longer a separate experience from the groundedness of home.
Then travel ceases to exist altogether and home ceases to exist altogether and you are just living wherever and whenever you are. You are living the movement and nothing is abnormal or exotic about any of it. There are no novel nuances in foreign language beer t- shirts or cheap street curry or cats with broken tails or lady boys or Viet cong numbers tattooed across a topless bums arm or monkeys chained to 12th century relics. It is simply life living as simply as it would where I grew up with collared shirts, sunday church, monday night football, dog walking, expensive sneakers, pumpkin pie and strip malls ....and the travesty of the self is that the novelty of these "home" things wear off due to repetition. But at this evolved state of awareness like ironically in that of a child everything can be experienced in fresh and novel ways no matter how many times it is has been observed. This fluidity exists then, once again, wherever and whenever you are. Every moment is magic and has new possibilities there are no expectations no matter how long or how fortified your history and relationships have been with family, friends, work. It's all ever moving ever changing and completely wonderfully impermanent. The only thing that keeps it stagnant is the mind's inability to flow with reality which is change. And lastly: your able to freely love and everyone is your friend.
