Today I thought to myself, "Gosh, I just want to go to Paris".
The past few days have been those that turn your life upside down and make you feel like you no longer understand anything. I thought I understood where life was going but that's always when life decides to make you uncomfortable. Thanks life.
Well, I've slowly begun to realize that whenever I'm in one of those uncomfortable spots I always start dreaming of travel. Paris. London. Austria. Italy. My new one is China.
Last summer I took a 12 day trip to Europe and it was the greatest thing ever. But now that I look back on it I realize that the driving force behind my buying the plane ticket was so I could forget. I wanted to forget Provo. I wanted to forget work. I wanted to forget dumb boys and family stress and my extreme lack of finances. So I went to Paris and it was awesome. I came back with my eyes opened to the world and the want to travel everywhere.
A year later and I'm at that spot again and I want another adventure. I want to try something new, do something crazy I can't do in 10 years when I have two kids and a husband and possibly a career. I want to forget all the things that life throws at me because that's what traveling does. You realize there's a bigger world out there and that our problems, though they are huge to us, are actually pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
I mean do you realize that there are people out there that have a completely different culture, different language, different foods and means of travel. And yet they are like us. They have money concerns, family drama, lunch dates with friends, and pretty much go about life the same way as us. The world is a big place with lots of good and lots of bad, but it's pretty beautiful and just asking to be explored. I think I'm developing a travel complex.
Maybe I'll go to China this fall. Or go to Italy after I graduate. Or maybe I'll just go back to Paris so I can finally stand on top of the Eiffel Tower. (Unless there's another strike, of course). I'm just in the mood to go somewhere different. Life is asking me to change directions an what better way to do that then change location. I really have developed a travel complex.
