As a child, yearning to leave home and go far away, the image in my mind was of flight--my little self hurrying off alone. The word "travel" did not occur to me, nor did the word "transformation," which was my unspoken but enduring wish. I wanted to find a new self in a distant place, and new things to care about. The importance of elsewhere was something I took on faith. Elsewhere was the place I wanted to be...
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown...Chekov said, "If you're afraid of loneliness, don't marry." I would say, if you're afraid of loneliness, don't travel. The literature of travel shows the effects of solitude, sometimes mournful, more often enriching, now and then unexpectedly spiritual.
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tula ba yan.
kung feel mo...
but it's really an introduction to one of his books.
hoy!
As a child, yearning to leave
home and go far away, the image
in my mind was of flight--
my little self hurrying off alone.
The word "travel" did not occur to me,
nor did the word "transformation,"
which was my unspoken but enduring wish. I wanted to find a new self
in a distant place, and new things
to care about. The importance
of elsewhere was something I took
on faith. Elsewhere was the place
I wanted to be
yung first paragraph lang pwede, medyo baduy na yung second, haha.
ah! ah!
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