The Saddest Thing About Travel Is That You Can’t Stay

Planning to travel to some place is the most exciting and lovely part of it all. Thinking about the things you'll do and see while you are visiting spikes a different kind of feeling which is quite unmatchable. One thing that really makes my heart feel empty is the wish to go back to the place. And i think this is just part of being human..... nostalgia. Its what makes us different from robots. The feeling of "missing" something... whether it is a place or a person.

There were times that i had visited some places many years ago but they'd still be buried in a deep corner in my heart that i'll forever miss until i go back. At times i'd miss the waves of the ocean and how they caressed the shore lightly as if giving it a kiss, while sometimes i'd miss the breeze high up in the mountains as it blew my stress away. Or the sun as it set between the mountains or on the horizon. It doesn't matter from where you look at it, it just looks breath taking. Just something about nature is so heartbreakingly beautiful.

Nostalgia

One of the loveliest and the cruelest feeling a human could have. Nostalgia. "I want to go back in time but how?" is something we find ourselves asking every single time it hits. Its just the way our hearts are so pure and it becomes so attached to a place because it finds the peace that it was looking for. We plan and plan with our minds so nothing is left out and when we set foot in the place our heart relaxes.

Nostalgia is a feeling of bliss because of how we are reminded innocently of things we found peaceful at a point in our life. How we romanticize the way we had felt at one point in our life and wish to relive it again just like that. Sometimes we wish to change the way we spent our time to maybe have some more fun but just end up looking into the blank smiling in helplessness.

And thats why it is one of the most beautifully cruel feeling at the same time. "Wish i had done it some other way..." is what we find ourselves asking for. So maybe i could have enjoyed the sound of the waves crashing against the shore a bit more, or maybe the way the sun kissed my skin as it set at the horizon, or maybe the wind as it blew past me. So... not only is a lovely feeling but also a kinda cruel goodbye.

Enjoying the Moments

And that is why we need to enjoy to our full limits. Maybe even out of the limits. Because at the end of the day... who knows when one might be having their last day? am i right? But being human, of course we'd miss something out and wish we'd done it some other way but that's okay. Maybe listen to the birds a little more closely as they sing you awake, or maybe notice the butterflies as they kiss the petals "thanks". There are so many things left unnoticed. So much more to be grateful about and so much detail to look at. These are very tiny things to notice but once you finally do it that way, you will forever feel a peace never felt before.

The Art of Noticing

I know in such a busy life we are living it is hard to notice small things but honestly if i tell you it is so easy and peaceful... would you believe me? When we are kids these feelings are more amplified because of innocence.. and innately having a connection with nature. I still remember i'd spend so much time just looking at a colony of ants or sometimes even following an ant to its nest. Curious why they would carry the dead on their backs and take them back to their nests, honestly i still want to know why haha. It's so stupidly innocent but now when i think about it i wonder how peaceful it was to have so much free will. Now we are just packed in our lives as if we are caged bird, even though the door of the cage is wide open we choose to stay in it....

That is why i say .. go to places... travel... have fun and live your life to the fullest. Plan and find love in every corner of the world. Dont be trapped in your life because we all are free.