TRAVEL OR NOT..
WANDER? LOST?

Mechanism 5
by Max

THE DAY YOU STOPPED TAKING PHOTOS,

you know you have reached your destination
at least for the time being..
No matter where you travel to, here you are, same old you!
You start taking photos almost obsessively -
you are not a pro, by the way, so why trying so hard?
Why so desperately seeking to score the perfect shot?
Travel and photos are sitting on the throne
of self-deception and
fantasy, that’s why! Perhaps only second to
the Fashion and Cosmetics Industry.
Equally and similarly to the Movies and the Social Media,
photos, videos, v-logs and the like operate as a ‘transfer’ tool to
a parallel universe where you are as
the best version of you,
if not someone else entirely in your place!
It’s fine, I guess, living temporarily the life of someone else,
pretending to be someone else. Fake it till you make it!
Is this not the fave motto of the average life-guru?
For most people, most of the time is enough to move,
spend money
and post to fulfill their social id-deconstruction and
personal enhancement reset, if necessary. Even as
a temporary,
better, immediate gratification vessel, it seems to be working.
It appears so..But let’s not forget appearances can be deceptive!
One can feel liberated even when moving from
one cell to another more luxurious and spacious.
It feels refreshing just to move around a different space.
You stop being your usual self, even if it occurs on
a minuscule scale.
But what happens when you don’t want to move,
use your camera, phone, yet,
still feeling the need though to wander?

 

 

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?

There’s worse..What does it mean when you stop
wanting to wander altogether, at least in the physical?
When you can not find any excitement in... here it comes…
wait...wait…travel!
I know this almost consists a terrorist act
in the trend-light of the last two decades, but
it’s true, some of us have been refusing to travel recently-
I may point out though, travel in its conventional,
current definition. In any case you do
realize that Travel, Tourism and their associated fields are
of great significance, Economy and Business wise, don’t’ you?
What are you trying to achieve therefore by refusing to move?
Do you really wish for the destruction of the World?
Well, in many respects, for you it may just as well be
the End of the World as you know it!
It’s over! You are done with a certain
Order of Things!
If you have really traveled for quite some time
you know what I am talking about.
Real travel changes you! More so, if you have
been strategic about it. It surely can change you,
profoundly!
This new you is a Cosmos in itself demanding
attention, nurturing and savoring, while staying put
for an equal time spent moving around. Therefore,
if you are going through a "travel pause", despair no more!
Weirdly so, it means you are a real traveler,
not just a tourist or a travel consumer and so on...
You stay still and you enjoy it! You know you are
missing out on nothing! Besides, before you know it
the time of feeling restless, seeking to move and wander
will strike again, though the frequency will wane in time and
you will be wiser, calling on further and deeper challenges,
not to mention ‘alternative geographies’, and
multidimensional experiences..
Put it simpler; You stop searching for quick fixes or
chasing excitement!.
Yes! If you have been a true traveler even for once in your life,
like a true love, you can never go back to a place
of ignorance. Your heart knows now..
You may be tempted to visit again some of your marked
escape paradises on the map, but you will reject this reaction
most of the time because you know better..
Make no mistake in thinking that travel is over for you!
It is not! There's always a part of cosmos truly new to you.
Perhaps somewhere in Space? Or maybe somewhere way closer,
inward, inside of you?
In your Heart perhaps? Let’s face it, for most of us
our hearts are the least visited and explored space!
So, next time someone asks how you manage not
to "move" for so long, how come you haven’t booked a trip lately or
when you just wonder yourself:
-”Why don’t you want to travel, shop and v-log”?
- Remember, "Heart-Spacing" that is ALL!