Being nomad and travelling at home

Restaurant's kitchen in Istanbul "Elevator place"

Many times I write about travel, about finding things troughout travels. Recently it came again, this simple thought about travelling without even moving from the city you live in.

I met a blogger recently, one of those inspiring people that pull you out into the things you want to do for life. We talked a lot about this particular subject that pops out often among the travelers. You start doing this, and you like it so much that it’s very difficult to stop doing it later and at least for some time or in a short or long projection of life we just can’t imagine holding to a life in only one place in the world.

Then two things follow to that, the first is the lack of purpose, the second is the solution for the ones that find unbearable to be nomads for life.

This lack of purpose is related with the YOLO philosophy (“You only live once”). Regardless of the reasons upon which we found that travel is THE way of life or that there’s no Life without travel. Becoming nomad or not I think that responds to how much we love ourselves, because travelling is fun, it’s pretty easy and fulfills the spirit. But if you take a second to think on others (all those that we leave behind).

Shouldn’t we do something about that?

When that questioning happens, communication kicks in and we start to share our experience with all that people, not only by telling the story but by writing, shooting, drawing or singing about the things we have lived. And so strong is the power of the will to share, that not only our older groups profit all these insights and experiences, but all those at the reach of social networks profits that.

So as they say, “who reads a story while travelling, is travelling twice” (in Spanish sounds better, I swear) everyone gets to travel by feeling and connecting with those who are doing  it in a physical way. The same concept runs for us the physical travelers, we get the stories of those who are in an adventure or used to travel, and this sharing expands wonderfully all around.

Is in this kind of attitude that it’s possible to travel at home, that’s the solution. To have enough empathy in order to actually experiencing the elders experience. And it’s with this development of the passion of listening and telling other travellers stories, that everyone can have a massive growth as a human being, staying at home. And in order to do that, a deeper sensibility is needed due to the lack of body experience.

It’s really opening the heart to the others. :)

It’s easy to check what kind of people is listening to you, wait for the first question.

If they ask you what are you looking for? What’s your story? That’s one thing.

If the question tries to point out if you had any bad experience? That might be fear speaking, the one who travels has no good or bad experiences, has only experiences. This last attitude, is the traveller mindset, whoever has this, is growing rapidly with this unlimited energy and a sort of 25-y-o attitude towards life.

It used to be called alchemy, some call it travel but it’s just LIFE