Insights from the Pavement: Keeping a Record
Throughout our travels, it’s not uncommon to want to jot down our
The world outside ourselves is sometimes hard to reach even in the most beautiful places.
Just because we’re in awe-inspiring locales, it doesn’t mean that we’re open to being awed. And while it’s important to address the source of this distraction, it’s also important to remember that this moment is more important than what can immediately be gained by the worry attached to that distraction.
Having taken the necessary steps to put ourselves out in the world to experience each moment of adventure, we come to be more in tune with these moments as they present themselves.
The term, “stop and smell the roses,” takes on an illustrious, new meaning when we’re standing in front of flowers that we’ve never seen before and which don’t exist back home. And every time we pass on the opportunity to take in the full flavor of each moment is an occasion that we may later regret. In most cases, the only time that we’re able to fully conceive of what we’ve missed along our path is once that journey has ended. And by then, it’s simply too late.
This is one of the amazing lessons that is engrained in our very core from our time abroad. And for those of us who have exercised the option to take off and explore these intimate moments that make up the greater experience of travel, are the ones most likely to literally pause for just long enough to embrace and fully take in those moments.
The next time we find ourselves in a time and place where we realize that we may never have the opportunity to experience it again, we should always remember to be present in that moment, to notice the little details that brought that moment into being, and to simple be with the time that exists for us right then and there.
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My new book, Insights from the Pavement, is a collection of 101 Travel Oms just like this one. Look for it to be released soon.
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