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I m Raffael !What i would like to say it follows..good luck and enjoy it!
Life is a journey
John Lennon used to say that life is what happens while you´re wondering what to do with your life. As an alternative, there is an old maxim which says that “today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
When in this frame of mind, the best thing to do is obviously not to waste a second and go all out to enjoy life to full. And nothing is better for this than a journey, the most effective weapon ever invented to combat monotony or a bad patch, and to throw open the gates of sensation. I grant you that journeys are mere parentheses which we organise from time to time to brighten up our lives, but what parentheses they are! We live so intensely during a journey that I´m sure life would smile on us more if we planned and enjoyed it as we do our travels.
Why is travel so good for the soul? A great deal has been written on the subject, and there are bound to be learned psychological and anthropological theories to explain it.
But at bottom, the whole thing is very simple. On a journey, monotony is shattered and we go through life like children, with our eyes wide open so as not to miss any details, and our antennae constantly on the alert. Everything is new, everything is different, everything is worthwhile. Twenty-four hours a day. Travelling brings some difficult moments, it is true, but they too have something to teach us, and after our return, when all is said and done, they turn into anecdotes which it amuses us to recall. Another point in traveling´s favour is that we learn to appreciate things by contrast. We might realise, for example, that the crazy race against the clock that life has turned into for us westerners, with our accumulation of property and wealth, lacks any meaning when compared to the every day life of an African or Asian village. “You have the watches”, they say in Africa with a smile, “but we have the time.” In short, a journey teaches us to know others and ourselves, for wherever you go, as a Buddhist proverb says, you always end up traveling into your own depths. Or to put it another way, every journey is always an inner voyage. And that is clearly more than money can buy.
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