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The Voyage, a Journey as We Travel in Life

A combination of how you move, where you go, when you do, or not really going anywhere at all.

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The Voyage, a Journey as We Travel in Life
Carolyn Langer

Traveling encloses the movement in time and space. Naturally, our beings traverse the world by our mere existence. Spinning around the sun seen through the portraits of the wind, we move on the moving planet in order to get somewhere or nowhere.

Standing, sitting, or laying shows how a constant can truly be the opposite. Blood and air flow reassure that our operation perpetuates in each stagnant position. Not to say that the introspective capacities are sold short in the inactive. Sometimes it's easiest to be lost in the mind, traveling at thousands of thoughts per minute, while a speedometer would show an arrow below the zero.

There are states of abbreviated motion, but there is nothing motionless. Our facial expressions show truly how sour a lemon can be, our mouths prove the point our hearts believe, our fidgets demonstrate the antsiness that our bodies receive from brain impulses; those thieves. Movement in the physical: both internal and external.

A shift in location: why are you going? Where are you going? Are you alone? When are you going? How are you going? What compelled this decision?

We walk through the sands of an unseen land, the not so shameful trek back home at the peak of sunrise, the necessary incling for sweets at the latest hours, the stroll from door to door, to the closet for footwear, or reminiscing the childhood neighborhood. With headphones on, to dance the streets within the confines of your drums, the walk feels it's lasted forever.

Faster paces are urged within self-persistence. Maybe to motivate in order to complete the run that started in the morning or to catch the means of transportation. In order to be up close to the artist that aided reconsideration of life's plans three months in advance, to fly a kite, or to burst out enclosed hyper feeling, we quickly glide through the crowds, down the stairs, or across a winding bridge to reach the destination.

Or away; from the home that has damaged enough, from yourself and the society that you've succumbed yourself, or from those that falsely accuse or find faults in what is considered to be the daily route. Traveling away from the bug that sounds of a cacophony who cautiously says distant of the reach of a folded newspaper, from the approaching storm, or from the friendships that are too over barring to foster make way for the chosen distance from the origin.

In deep waters with feet far from the ground, treading water triggers a sensation of flight. Freely floating with lungs full of oxygen in the waves so our bodies become buoyant, staying inside the lanes as if you're coloring between lines, touching the bottom of the deep end before an unworthy competitor, or even swimming for the first time in fresh water leaves us saturated in the temperature of the surroundings.

Varieties of vehicles function for a collection of purposes. In an age of everlasting advancing technology, improvements in transportation allow riders to advance to the nearest hotel, just not collecting $200 if passing GO.

A bike allows fifteen minute walks to become a 4-minute breeze ride, downhill, underneath the trees. The crux of an uphill road leaves the quads burning until the top with sweat dripping down the knee creases. Flat pavement unites the two elements, feeling free enough to ride a bike with no handlebars or stand upon the pedals in motion.

A car divides the driver and passenger with a compartment for small notes given in discrete or distracted moments. This device has 90 degrees of freedom, each traveler about 360, and the wheel with about 540 given its ability to spin and a half. Inside the car could be squeezed if traveling with heavy boxes full of perfectly folded clothing, through continuous expansion remains on all other sides of the vehicle.

Sailing into the endless blueness leaves the sky at its clearest. Far from any sort of land, this type of voyage almost is an illusion: the same water seemingly repeats until somehow, the destination is in the distance. It doesn't seem as if you're going anywhere at all, but the gurgle in the pit of your existence doesn't prove just how nauseating staying still can be.

Traveling on a bus, plane, or train allows individuals to cram tightly together. As far as metro locomotion is concerned, communities are connected by standing or sitting but moving. Flying into space, the best time to fly is at the rise or set of the day. Entertainment can make the ride seem shorter, music makes the scene feel brighter, and conversation relieves the tension of unknown thighs touching one another.

No matter the reason, an exploration or a paved path, on foot or with the help of someone else's, travel is far more diverse than depicted within an 809-word article posted on Odyssey.

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