Thursday, July 31, 2008

when you travel you find yourself

My plan this time was not to have a plan. I feel we are loaded with too much information today. Informative, Instructive, descriptive, educative, illustrative, graphic and all other nonsense. Why should we rely on them? Why don’t we rely on our senses? Are we too scared to face what we don’t know?

Traveled alone, got stranded, lost my way, walked miles, drenched in rain for hours, slept on the floor and finally got lost in space.


One thing I learned is –you are never alone, there is always someone to help you, no matter how worse the situation gets, there is always someone.



3 comments:

Chandan said...

Like your philiosophy for travel... it reminds me of the way a few other things should be approached in life as well. Too much information is sadly too correct a reading of our times.
Would recommend 2 book I read by Chinese author in exile, Ma Jian- `Red Dust' and `Stick out your tongue'.
That is: if you have not read them already/ and you like reading in the first place.
Have a feeling you'll like the books.
cheers

skyblue+seagreen said...

Hi Chandan, thank you very much for the recommendation, I was just checking out these books on amazon.com, read the reviews, think I will love it. Goes very well with my nature-ha ha ha. I am just lost. Thank you again.

Anonymous said...

Too much information banalizes information. We consume information as we consume everything else...in the most superficial and greedy way, blindly!

Go alone, meet strangers, share, forget what you've heard, seen or read. Go, get lost and find yourself. This is what travel is about. And life is our biggest travel.

Your philosophy is my philosophy, Shiva.

The books sound interesting too.

Cheers! This is a great post!