Reisende
back from berlin.
pictures and reflections on the trip will realise themselves eventually, but for now am too distracted by the everyday to sit down and sort through my images and thoughts.
and all this distraction has been brought on by my wanderlust. i've already been checking up flights out of the country to go somewhere sunny this christmas (apart from the very obvious hometown location). we were already planning another trip back to berlin even before we had left the city.
also been pre-occupied with calculations of current and potential financial states. and wondering why these companies keep sending me credit card applications and winning lottery tickets. i honestly don't care for credit, and i only spend what i have. the thought of paying interest on money that i don't have just so i can buy something right now is frankly quite frightening. but then again, i've never had to buy big ticket items like a car or a house. and everything else that's relatively expensive has always been bought for me by the parents. so maybe when they decide to stop giving me money i will plunge straight into credit heaven and debt hell.
but yes, all this travelling is costing lots of money. and i'm sure that if i didn't go away so often, i could probably afford to buy a new wardrobe. however, i live a much better life whilst on my travels than i do when i'm here in london, and i much prefer taking in the sights, experiencing other cultures and getting to know the differences between peoples. the food is a pretty good deal-clincher as well.
i love the european cafe culture and the sense of centuries of known history just around the corner from whichever place i am standing. and the languages that are so similar and yet so different, i like comparing them and going 'oh! of course that's what it means, because it's ___ in spanish/italian/french/english isn't it?'.
the one thing they can save on is perhaps the amount of dog-poo on the streets.
so, yes. that's what's been on my mind today while sitting in the garden and staring at the sky, watching the planes pass by and making cloud/icicle patterns across it.
pictures and reflections on the trip will realise themselves eventually, but for now am too distracted by the everyday to sit down and sort through my images and thoughts.
and all this distraction has been brought on by my wanderlust. i've already been checking up flights out of the country to go somewhere sunny this christmas (apart from the very obvious hometown location). we were already planning another trip back to berlin even before we had left the city.
also been pre-occupied with calculations of current and potential financial states. and wondering why these companies keep sending me credit card applications and winning lottery tickets. i honestly don't care for credit, and i only spend what i have. the thought of paying interest on money that i don't have just so i can buy something right now is frankly quite frightening. but then again, i've never had to buy big ticket items like a car or a house. and everything else that's relatively expensive has always been bought for me by the parents. so maybe when they decide to stop giving me money i will plunge straight into credit heaven and debt hell.
but yes, all this travelling is costing lots of money. and i'm sure that if i didn't go away so often, i could probably afford to buy a new wardrobe. however, i live a much better life whilst on my travels than i do when i'm here in london, and i much prefer taking in the sights, experiencing other cultures and getting to know the differences between peoples. the food is a pretty good deal-clincher as well.
i love the european cafe culture and the sense of centuries of known history just around the corner from whichever place i am standing. and the languages that are so similar and yet so different, i like comparing them and going 'oh! of course that's what it means, because it's ___ in spanish/italian/french/english isn't it?'.
the one thing they can save on is perhaps the amount of dog-poo on the streets.
so, yes. that's what's been on my mind today while sitting in the garden and staring at the sky, watching the planes pass by and making cloud/icicle patterns across it.
posted by ejl at 7:26 pm
2 Comments:
yeah go out and experience life instead of buying a new wardrode. i came back from my trip broke and jobless for 7 months. But it's all worth it... we are still young to start again.
tt
youth is perfect, isn't it?
we get to make mistakes and fuck up time after time, we get to put everything on hold to do silly things that seem so important right now, we get to to anything we want, and still have the ability to press the restart button.
but then again, it's all a matter of mindset. even if you're 42, one can still give it all up to go explore the ends of the earth if one wants it enough.
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