It's Tuesday morning, and I check my phone after I get out of a boring lecture about another mundane essay I'll have to write within the next week... It's one of those annoying Timehop notifications that I rarely even look at, but decide to this time - one year ago I was on the shores of North Carolina, with a friend from college for the weekend.
I had almost forgotten about that spontaneous get-a-way; looking back I should have been miserable - 32 hours of driving in a 72 hour time frame - but I wasn't. In all those pictures I am smiling, and happy, and having the time of my life. You see... I was doing what I love most.
In almost every girl's bio on Instagram and Twitter lives a word that is overused and underrated: "wanderlust." The definition for wanderlust in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is too simple for those that actually experience it. The way that I feel is more than just "a strong longing for or impulse toward wandering" - it's more like "a strong feeling of uneasiness when staying sedentary, along with the urge to explore."
Whether it is a weekend getaway with my mom to my favorite spot three towns over, a week long trip with my boyfriend and our friends, or a road trip with a girlfriend to some far off place that we probably should have swung for plane tickets for; I live for the adventure.
Since going to college my world has been one exploit after another. Weekend trips to Fayetteville (before I transferred to the U of A), North Topsail Island, Tulsa, Mount Magazine, Fort Worth, vacations in Gulf Shores, and North Padre Island. Too many day trips, and hiking trips to count. I constantly get to go experience new places, and I am very blessed to do so.
You cannot take material things with you when you go, but memories - you'll have forever. That is why I am a wanderlust; no one can take the world away from me that way.
Be it a cold snowy mountain top in Colorado, the warm crystal beaches of Florida, or even Branson, Hawksbill Craig, or Hot Springs - there will never be a day that I will not say no to going anywhere. I would travel by boat, by train, by car, by plane; it doesn't matter as long as I'm chasing the horizon.
Oh, how I am due for another adventure.
