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It's A Small World After All

My thoughts after coming home.

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Hello again, everyone!

It feels like it has been ages since the last time I was able to sit down and write an article. But here I am again, having returned from my European adventures! I have so many stories I could tell about my trip to Europe, but that would be a very long article that wouldn’t end up being very interesting to read. So instead, I’ll give a bit of a summary of my experience over the last month.

During my month abroad, I visited four different countries and 10 different cities. I saw a lot of very old and very famous monuments and buildings. Most all of these locations were places I had dreamed about going to for years. It always seemed that it was impossible for me to get to these locations though--they were just too far away. Or so it seemed.

Every time I travel anywhere, I am always amazed at how normal it feels to be there. I was thousands of miles away from home, but to me it seemed as though I was just a short distance from home. I was seeing buildings that were hundreds of years old, but I was not always overcome with awe upon seeing them. But this also doesn’t go to say that I was completely desensitized to being in an exotic place or viewing a beautiful piece of handiwork. I think that this is just my own way of appreciating the world around me and making it my own.

Now that I have returned home from my travels, these locations still hold an allure for me but they no longer feel unattainable. What once seemed so far out of my grasp now seems to fit in my own backyard. I have come to learn that travelling makes the world seem smaller; it makes the world feel more like a unified whole rather than a division of people. I love that traveling makes me feel like the world belongs together, and that I belong with it. I’ll give a piece of advice that I’m sure you’ve heard before: if you ever get the opportunity to travel anywhere, do it. It truly will change your life. The world might seem big and scary, but it is smaller and more friendly than you think.

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