wander, woman

"that's it, i'm staying here". donostia, bizkaia, 2011. A friend and I were talking over the weekend, about plans, upcoming trips, more plans. "The thing I hate most about travel is that after-feeling." She confessed to not being able to go back to productive work for a week or so, post-trip. The relishing, that ache and longing for it not to end. I was nodding my head the whole time as I knew of that feeling. I remembered how it took months for me to let go of my first European adventure, not to mention the efforts to 'extend it'-- that endless googling for work opportunities, overseas scholarships, projects. Boy, that "European holiday withdrawal syndrome" is a bitch. However, having once in my life--been able to successfully get into everyone's dream sequence of an extended holiday, I thought I should give insights on how to cure this "decease". 1. Have something to look forward to, upon coming back My uncle...

Yesterday, on our way back to Singapore from Manila I had, for the first time in a year and hours to 5 months-- I had my me time. It dawned upon me an hour or so midflight, With the two loves of my life beside me, and there I was, flipping through a magazine. I finished reading two. I even made it halfway through Walter Mitty. It was the quiet, that moment of peaceful bliss. Things are unfolding, just so you wait.