We need to travel, if we don't offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull, our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift the horizon, our ears don't hear the sound around us, our experience is restricted as we pass our days in a routine that is both comforting and limiting. We wake one day and we find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.
Don't let yourself become one of those people. The fear of the unknown and the lure of the comfortable will conspire to keep you from taking the chances a traveller has to take. But if you take them you will never regret your choice. Sure, there will be a moment of doubt when you stand alone, on an empty road, in an icy rain or when you are ill in a rented bed. In the end you will be a so much happier person, that's all the risks and hardships will seem like nothing compared to the knowledge you have gained and the life you have lived.
I know the girl that would smile to me is not there any more. But I cannot control myself and keep going back to the same place, hoping to see her again. I understand I am living in the past or a dream. And I do not know how long I will keep doing this. Maybe one day I will wake up and move on. If that day happen, please say Hi to her for me.
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