Everyday life can be fast, days can pass quickly and our obligations can create a repetitive and tiring pattern. To me, travel became a perfect way to give more space to my needs, feelings and wishes.
That is why, for me, travel usually brings inspiration in more different areas – new motives in painting or writing, new energy for reviving skills and practicing, new ideas in general. Inspiration didn’t magically appear from nowhere. I just gave my thoughts and wishes some space and they could finally grow.
Although I love travelling anywhere, I feel like coming back to myself the most in nature. The place on the photograph is one of those places that brings me back to myself.
In places like this, I cannot wait for the first sunrays to wake me up.
In places like this, sleep seems like a waste of precious time.
Soft sunshine still seems sleepy.
Crisp air still tastes like night.
Grass cools my footsteps, and I feel privileged to be one of few awake souls here.
Early breakfast is incredibly delicious – although I always eat the same food for the first breakfast – but here, my attention is fully directed to all of its flavours.
Here, the walks are calm. Conversations are true and not mannered. Laugh and talk with my dearest ones comes with an unearthly joy.
But fears and sadness, if they come, feel greater, too.
Melancholy and memories of some past times, doubts and insecurities.
To me, travel does not bring only pleasant thoughts and feelings. But it brings truthful ones.
Travel helps me connect with thoughts that, back at home, I forgot to reveal even to myself.
That is why at this place everything seems more real. Flavours are strong, water is astoundingly refreshing, thunderstorms are frightening, conversations are deep, laugh is heartfelt.
Because, when leaving my everyday life, I knowingly leave all the distractions behind me, and I create time for all the things inside me that were waiting for my mark so they could run, jump and chase.
Travel can not only bring us back to ourselves, but it can give us so many new experiences. It teaches us how to behave in another culture, how to jump down the waterfall, how to communicate with strangers, how to approach wild animals without scaring them, how to sleep outdoor during thunderstorms, how to try something different, how to spend some time out of our four well-known walls, how to choose unknown over familiar.
It also teaches us to perceive time as an incredible value. At home, we have a seemingly unlimited amount of time. That is why often we don’t try too eagerly to make the most of it.
While travelling, our time there is strictly limited, and that fact forces us to be present.
Let’s try and bring to our old worlds this new knowledge that travel gives us.
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