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Traveller
“Why are we so full of restraint?
Why do we not give in all directions?
Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we
do lose ourselves there is no hope
of finding ourselves.”
– Henry Miller (American Author)
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“getting lost” a customary
practice of a true travelling
experience? Yes. Like it or lump
it, the majority of us when we
are abroad, or even next to our
home ground feel as if we have
just arrived on a new planet. It
helps to keep things fresh, doesn’t it?
Celebrated author, philosopher and
personality Henry David Thoreau once
said,“ Not until we are lost do we begin
to understand ourselves.”
Travel is about exploration, and some
of the most fulfilling times are those in
which we can lose ourselves. We may
find it in a place, in a culture or through
an experience that we will always take
with us in our heart and in our mind.
However, noted is the fact that it does
take a lot to get well and truly lost in
today’s computerised and connected
world. The only way to come out of this
is to always remember where you are
staying.
Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul said
once: “It was a good place for getting
lost in, a city no one ever knew, a
city explored from the neutral heart
outward, until after many years, it
defined itself into a jumble of clearings
separated by stretches of the unknown,
through which the narrowest of paths
had been cut.”
Leaving Behind
That includes your phone. Yes, your
communication devices to the world.
Once out of the picture, it’s a whole new
ballgame, and one fraught with many
questions that will open up your eyes
and make you use your head in creative
Getting Lost
to Find Yourself !
Travel is about exploration,
and some of the most
fulfilling times are those in
which we can lose ourselves.