Journey

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things… Henry Miller’

The young DYO is a homebody not because she prefers it but because she always complains of motion sickness; during travels; consequently, she would always throw-up  whenever she smells of fuel oil from any vehicle.

As a young adult, her work involved frequent traveling that her only choice is to adapt.. and adapt she did.. and boy, did she enjoy the freedom to travel?

Indeed if THE SPIRIT IS WILLING, THE FLESH IS NEVER TOO WEAK :)

Need I say more?  IF THERE’S A WILL, THERE’S A WAY.

Thanks to her previous job and later on her involvement with an NGO, she was able to travel for free. Of course, she wants to go to more places as enumerated in her bucket list  and perhaps to more destinations not yet on the list…

Here she is, speaking :)

I am a golden wanderlust and I still long to travel far and long. At this point though, I realized that traveling is not just going from one place to another nor is it just an adventure into the unknown.  It is about people.. it’s about relationships.. it’s about understanding a different culture.. it’s about going beyond oneself and living life in a new perspective, out of one’s comfort zone .

In this view, allow me to borrow Nadine Stair’s quotation about living which she wrote when she was 85 years old..

IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER

I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.
I’d relax, I would limber up.
I would be sillier than I have been this trip.
I would take fewer things seriously.
I would take more chances.

I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers.
I would eat more ice cream and less beans.
I would perhaps have more actual troubles,
but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I’m one of those people who live
sensibly and sanely hour after hour,
day after day.

Oh, I’ve had my moments,
And if I had it to do over again,
I’d have more of them.
In fact, I’d try to have nothing else.
Just moments, one after another,
instead of living so many years ahead of each day.

I’ve been one of those people who never goes anywhere
without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat
and a parachute.
If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.

If I had my life to live over,
I would start barefoot earlier in the spring
and stay that way later in the fall.
I would go to more dances.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds.
I would pick more daisies.

Nadine Stair,
85 years old.

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