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Max's Round the World in 36 days
I have made it to London Heathrow this morning losing the night somehow on the way and I have been totally missing it during the whole day. But I arrived and I can know confirm that the Earth is indeed round-shaped:)
Was it because I was jetlagged, or maybe just my typical morning condition but I did not feel much when we touched the ground in gloomy London. I just felt somehow outspaced, as if all this was not happening. I even got rather hyper when riding London tube, with moments of exuberance related to coming back home. But it very soon hit me - the overwhelming feeling that something has ended and i have just got back to "(...) real lives where we belong.." It struck me suddenly that time has frozen here and it is the trip, not London, that now started to seem unreal. And it was one of the worst feelings ever to unpack my backpack in the Easter Monday London silence. Sand in my luggage, smell of ocean in all my clothes, a couple of Fiji shells - all spread on the carpet. It really tore me apart!
Anyway, I definitely feel those times have enriched me - I feel yet more open about the world. I have met amazing people I would never have a chance to meet in normal circumstances. The world of opportunities has yet expanded - I feel confident that if I ever feel like it I could go and live probably anywhere in the world including the most remote and deserted locations. In the same time, I feel even more confused than I was before (and I already though of myself as pretty international...) - in the myriad of possible ways/places how are you to choose the right one? Knowing you can live almost everywhere & that paradise is actually multiple how are you to pick the only one? Surfing the world of opportunities and the labirynth of countless combinations.
I feel refreshed & I feel a bit lost now. A feeling previoulsy unknown to me. One thing is sure though - travelling is contagious, I know it got into my blood and I enjoyed every moment of it. If I could leave again tomorrow for 12 months, I would. The plan is therefore simple- working for 2, maybe 3 years then taking a year out and going travelling again, this time for much longer. Having met different people and heard their stories & adventures as well as having seen what is it that actually fascinates me about travelling, I am already planning another trip in my mind ( last night in the plane I was actually running with a pencil through the world map of the in-flight magazine...) And this I see as the major motivation to work. Maybe some of you will join me or maybe I will visit you in whichever spots you will be staying at that time. But I have definitely discovered my "travelling soul" and that's what I will carry with me forever.
Finally, I would like to thank you all for going thru all those random things I have been writing. Thanks to all my friends & the friends of my friends who have now become my friends. In the end we are not solitary beings and we all need some kind of an exit to all our feelings and thoughts. Travelling on my own, this website has been a way to vent all those - only by sharing my moments with you I could fully enjoy them. In this way I felt as if I have never travelled alone.
P.S. I have finally updated the pix so you're invited to check them out!
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