My Home.

For me, my home is not where I grow up, nor where I have family (surprising, I know). My home is where I feel complete, where I smile uncontrollably, where I feel like I truly belong, or sometimes not belong at all. This makes me no longer have a single place or human connection that creates my home, but making the world my home.

Whether it is traveling two towns over or simply around the world, I have come to know, that I love to be everywhere and anywhere that I am able to go. I simply love not knowing where I am and where things are, as crazy as that sounds. Exploring is one of the greatest things in life and I will never get enough. There is a famous saying that I have heard many times and this could not be more true:

"Life begins when you leave your comfort zone." -Neale Donald Walsch

My simple dream, in the future, is to be able to travel anywhere I please. Traveling is one of the main reasons I am minoring in international business (there is a complicated reason as to why I am not majoring in it, but lets just say that if I had my choice, I would). Now, I am sure you're wondering why I love traveling so much, or even why I think this way.

I have only traveled to New York, Washington, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, North and South Carolina, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ontario, Quebec, and the Bahamas. This is a lot of places, but one thing that you have to remember is how many places there are to go. That is barely a dent. I know this sounds like way more than a dent, but look at it this way: I have only been to twelve out of fifty states, two provinces out of ten in Canada and only one island in the Bahamas. So in calculation, I still need to travel to 38 states, eight provinces, and an estimated 54 countries before I am slightly satisfied with where I have been. I have just come to terms that I will not be able to travel to every place I would like to, unless that is all I do. I would have to travel almost every other week in order to go that many places. I would also need to start tomorrow and we all know how wealthy college students are.

You may think I am crazy and well you're not entirely wrong.

One of the main reasons I feel so strong about traveling, is the experience and the fascination behind the human brain and the development behind civilization itself. I absolutely hate history, but not when I am where history has stood. To understand how a mammal population has come to grow from living just like every other creature and now has developed this incredible world from different communication that consist of different sounds and can be learn by other humans. How humans have developed worship and religion. How one culture shames women and another praises them as royalty. How humans have created a consistency to their style of clothes and now that's what they may be known for. And how humans have developed hate for one another on the pure justification of not living the same way their culture does.

This is what makes me feel like traveling is my home. I have lived in my culture and know it very well. I know that my culture is not the only one out there and I don't want this culture to be the only one that I am experienced with. I want to live and experience. I have discovered that I feel the most comfortable when I am not in my comfort zone and I couldn't love it more.