I’ve been traveling for exactly 1 month now.
I took a ferry from Finland to Estonia and then traveled by bus from Tallinn to Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and now in Montenegro. I spent 2-3 days in most capital cities but 2 weeks in Croatia. I’m probably going to Albania tomorrow.
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Favorite place so far?
I don’t know, hard to say. As my friend Brent said places are people and people are places too! Bukowski once wrote that every poem is a city.
A man reaches a point in his life where every place and face starts to blur into the next. As we get older and wiser, we look for something deeper and eternal. Our perceptions can only lead us so far…
So the initial excitement of leaving and arriving or meeting and connecting fades quickly these days. Occasionally we find what we are looking for. But even that is fleeting.
That’s my fault though…
I am afraid to be the person I really want to be. Instead I often succumb to social pressure. Do what everyone else does. Blend in. I become the places I travel to and the people I meet. I lose myself into my surroundings. This is great for making new connections and entertaining others (crazy viking style which I’m quite good at) but for personal integrity and inner peace, it is a disaster.
It is not the real me.
I want to become a leader.
That however can be exhausting because since birth, we are programmed to follow the trends! The truth is, I have been traveling my whole life. Looking for a place to call home. What is home?
I want things.
Big things. Castles. Cars. Designer Suits. Beautiful women.
FU money.
THINGS!
Security. Status. Power.
But those are just gateway drugs.
To something far more intangible.
Truth. Love. God.
Abundance.
EXPERIENCE.
TRUE POWER!
(this goes beyond race, gender, politics, army, net worth, religion, ideology, identity, dick size, etc)
I have the keys to the kingdom… just misplaced them somewhere along the way as I created all THIS (we are all creators of our own lives and of life itself).
We are all looking for the same place.
We are all from the same place.
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Here’s some photos that I’ve taken with my shitty smartphone. I’m sometimes captivated by a scene or patterns I see. Gonna invest in some proper audio/video equipment at some point and create something out of all this chaos and glory
Thank you for reading.
Don’t be a stranger, say hello if you somehow find this.
