To the ones who constantly feel heavy and overwhelmed with wanderlust, I understand you and all your desires to be anywhere, but where you are. You feel stuck and bored with how things seem so constant and redundant. Growing up in a small city where nothing ever really happens, I understand how you can feel so unsatisfied with your surroundings and how you daydream of places far different from your home though your home doesn’t quite feel like home, does it?
So you want to search the world, all four corners of it, to find all those places where you will feel pure nirvana and bliss, and finally, raw happiness. Warmth will fill you as you realize this is what you have always wanted to do, what you were made to do; wander. So maybe you were never meant to have a home, but a hundred and one different homes.
You’re not satisfied standing in one spot, and that’s okay. It’s a big world we live in and we’d be depriving ourselves the beauty of discovering all aspects of it. Wanderlust can be haunting, as we sit in school or at our desks at work, wondering what we would rather much be doing; traveling. The thrill, the adrenaline, the excitement of going to someplace new seems much more interesting than a nine to five routine.
We want the world, those of us who have wanderlust, and we want the world to want us. We never want to say no to adventure and no matter how far we may go, we always want to go further. We always want to see the next big thing or cross something else off of our bucket list and be able to say, I did that! It’s one of the greatest feelings in the world.
I haven’t traveled in a while and I’m already full of desperation to leave, go far away for a couple of days and distract myself from responsibilities by doing fun activities I never get the chance to do around here. I want to have fun, I want to do new things, speak to new people, be inspired by a new setting and just live- don’t we all want that?
I know I do. I know you do too.
My life’s been taken over by wanderlust lately, so if yours has too, then I want you to know that you’re not alone and whatever it is that is holding you back will eventually, no longer. Then, you’re free to roam.
