The following is part of a conversation I had with B. Monday morning upon returning from Johannesburg:
B: You are lucky, to see different places. With no money, we must just stay here, in this one place.”
Me: “yes, I am very lucky, and I have seen many places. But, you know, after all this moving about, it’s the people, not the places that attract me. A place is just… a thing. It’s the people that keep drawing me back. it’s the friends and family that are most important, wherever you are.”
My reply came quite automatically, and without reflection (babbling away unthinkingly… as usual….), but as the words were spouting out, I could feel actually how true they were, and how well they summed up how I feel about life.
Why then, I asked myself, do I feel the pull to keep exploring and travelling?
The same answer of course!
I am drawn by the promise of new friends yet to be made, new conversations to be had, new views to discover.
Forget places and things.
People are the noun that I choose to make my world go round, the noun that has the greatest influence over the choices I make in life.
How about you?
B: You are lucky, to see different places. With no money, we must just stay here, in this one place.”
Me: “yes, I am very lucky, and I have seen many places. But, you know, after all this moving about, it’s the people, not the places that attract me. A place is just… a thing. It’s the people that keep drawing me back. it’s the friends and family that are most important, wherever you are.”
My reply came quite automatically, and without reflection (babbling away unthinkingly… as usual….), but as the words were spouting out, I could feel actually how true they were, and how well they summed up how I feel about life.
Why then, I asked myself, do I feel the pull to keep exploring and travelling?
The same answer of course!
I am drawn by the promise of new friends yet to be made, new conversations to be had, new views to discover.
Forget places and things.
People are the noun that I choose to make my world go round, the noun that has the greatest influence over the choices I make in life.
How about you?
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