Each day seems to take a toll on me. Traveling is a ton of fun for sure but doing so much all the time is wearing me out. I always have to make sure my flights are in line, my accommodation is in line, my rent back home is paid on time, my sleep schedule works with the parts of the day I would like to be awake and the time I have to be at work, having enough food or knowing where to go to get it – be it during the middle of the day or the middle of the night, and just so many normal things most people take for granted. Having enough shampoo is one thing and even considering the weight of baggage that I need to take with me. More often than not my backpack comes in handy. It’s the wheeled carry-on luggage I bought in India that sometimes gets in the way. However it has saved me at the airport before with a redistribution of weight.
Anyway – point is there are a lot of things to think about and a lot to do all the time. Many people have mentioned to me they have no idea how I do it and they would have been burned out a long time ago. Honestly, I have no idea how I do it either. It just becomes a life like any other life. After awhile you do start missing home and you do start missing the routine you escaped long ago. Often, when you get what you want, you don’t necessarily want it anymore, no matter how fun it is. Sometimes, I just wish I were home where I could kick up my legs on my couch, curl up with a good book, and settle down with my cats.
Two months to go before I can have this again, two months of discovery. Every time it seems that this week will be boring for the site, this week won’t amount to much, I seem to stumble upon some fantastic pictures or read a fantastic book. Even though I won’t be on a safari out here in New Zealand, doesn’t mean I’m not having a fantastic time going to their museums. Besides, it’s still the winter here and I only have summer clothes!
“You had to know that I was fond of you,
Fond of Y-O-U”
– The Shins, Turn On Me
“Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“You sense that there is something treacherous hiding behind every reef; no matter how much you explore you won’t ever know what it is.”
– Jerzy Kosinski, The Devil Tree
“Work is largely repetitive, while reading imparts something new.”
– Sean
“We can talk to each other about consciousness, but it is fundamentally, ineradicably subjective in character, a phenomenon that can be experienced only alone, from within.”
– Tor Norretranders, The User Illusion
