ONCE A YEAR, GO SOMEPLACE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE - DALAI LAMA.

I do not know, since when did I have such a desire to wander.. since when did my heart long to be in places I've never seen before? As though my heart has been shattered into a thousand pieces and I must travel to find every fragment of it and put it back together.

I'm being poetic. Or at least I attempt to be as poetic as I can because that's the kind of feeling I get when I think about travelling. I don't think there's a person I know who doesn't love to travel, of course we all have our reason to travel. Seeing the world is always the main reason. For me.. it's hard to put into words my love for travelling.. it's more like I get that urge to be somewhere else.. something is missing from me or maybe it's that feeling I get where I feel I'm always in awe of the things around me, how very small I am and there's so much to see. Maybe it's my escape.. I guess to be honest, there is no way to explain why I like to travel.

My favourite fairytales are Peter Pan and the Lion King. Both are about adventures.. perhaps that's what I seek - an adventure. Whether it's share with others or by myself, an adventure is an adventure. We always end up learning something new about ourselves and those around us.

Like the wise Dalai Lama says - "Once a year, go someplace you've never been before." That's the kind of goal I set for myself. It doesn't always have to be abroad, it can also be interstate too but yes I shall travel until I find those missing pieces.

This photo was taken when I was heading to Kuala Lumpur from Hong Kong this year. I looked out and couldn't resist taking that shot on my phone's camera. The word - wanderlust was very fitting and considered I had just got it tattooed on myself a couple of months before this trip, it just felt right.

I want to travel, explore and be part of the country I go. I do not want to be a tourist and only seek out the main attractions. I want to find that little coffee shop that the locals frequent, that bookstore that contains more history than you and I will ever know. I want to meet people who is nothing like me but people whom I can like all the same. I want to take pictures of moments and the people I meet and be able to look back on them and remember how I have transformed by them. I want to come home and find myself not feeling whole because pieces of my heart is left in the countries I've been to and the people I've met. That I believe is the way my heart works and that is also what I aim to make out of my life.

  

"wanderlust consumed her; foreign hearts and exotic minds compelled her.
she had a gypsy soul and a vibrant hope for the unknown."- d. marie