For the most part, you can choose your view. Wherever you are (or end up) the view becomes personal, for a time. Own it. Your personal view also depends on attitude. What you see affects how you feel, no matter how temporary. Where you are is how you are. Own it.
To be a tourist is to take in life, as it happens and where it happens, as you see it.
There is a sense of wonder that comes with knowing so little about where you are but learning as you go. The anonymousness of it all is astounding. You are a stranger in a strange land, an outsider seeing another side of life on the other side of this magnificent planet.
Observations become the recollections of what you have never seen before.
j.g.l.
For days and weeks, I will be away; another time zone far away from where I call home.
Still, each day I will wake. I will do things that I usually do, but maybe in a different way. The sights will be varied, yet my camera is the same. What will I see in my viewfinder? What will my memory take in?
What I will see is entirely up to me.
j.g.l.
I’ve not travelled as often as I should, but find each trip ends with more than memories.
I’m packing now, making sure I take with me all I requite to find comfort where I end up.
Too much baggage can be a deterrent, and too little always leaves you wanting more.
I only think I know what I need. More travel is definitely at the top of my list.
j.g.l.
Some of us
have been broken.
Most of us
are just people.
All of us
need to think about that.
© 2020 j.g. lewis