Perception v reality when travelling solo
So when you're at home, you are constantly thinking about your trip, making plans, getting excited. IT IS GOING TO BE GREAT!!
Then when you get there, the newness, the change is a novelty. But after a day or two, it can get lonely. And you miss your friends and family like mad. You think: I always feel this way when I am travelling solo; how could I forget it?
So what do you do? Well you can look for other travellers, move on to new places. But this only fixes temporarily. When you're back solo, that lonely aching begins again.
But I am a seasoned traveller now - 33 countries over 20 years - so this is my advice to myself. As I sit on this train from Nova Gorica to Bled in Slovenia. Missing my daughter terribly.
Not all of life/ travel has to be intense pleasure. I know these long train trips, the long walks are the times that I am closest to my soul. I talk to myself better than at any time at home. And it is these times that I become a stronger person. I shall write, and walk and think. I shall watch other people interact in a language I don't understand, I shall swim in the cool waters, stroll through the town centres, walk in the hills. But I shall stop seeking pleasure and just be.
Just be.
I know that in time, I'll recall my travels fondly. How was Slovenia? It was amazing. I will have grown.
Now to get off my phone and watch the forested ravines as I head towards the Alps. Love you my fellow travellers.
Submitted May 20, 2018 at 07:53AM by Mapumbu https://ift.tt/2wWmbkf
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