wanderlust

i've been talking travel, lately. i never really believed in the term the real world, but there is one thing that's definitely a lot more real when you leave the hallowed halls of higher education - vacation time. my job now is a flexible, laid back one, but still i don't have three months to toy with the idea of travel during summer, or a month around christmas. welcome to the real world.

"I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from him, something about his favorite walk being the one he took around his own bedroom. He said that he never understood the need for people to travel because all the poetry and perspective you're ever going to get you already posses. Anais Nin had the same idea. We see the world as we are. So if it's the same brain we bring with us every time we open our eyes, what's the difference if we're looking at an island cove or a pocket watch?"

Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake

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