#17 - on the road again
"what gives value to travel is fear" ~ Albert Camus
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.”
~ “Little Gidding,” (T.S. Eliot)
“A man never goes so far as when he doesn’t know where he is going.”
Oliver Cromwell
According to the American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychology, dromomania is
“An abnormal drive or desire to travel that involves spending beyond one’s means and sacrificing job, partner, or security in the lust for new experiences. People with dromomania not only feel more alive when traveling but also start planning their next trip as soon as they arrive home. Fantasies about travel occupy many of their waking thoughts and some of their dreams. The condition was formerly referred to as vagabond neurosis.”
“All these co-pilots had one unique quality that made them special. None of them have died in a plane crash.”
~ Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Season 2
(a TV Show that is deep inside my head this month
Untranslatable word of the month
Wanderlust
(German)
Strong desire to wander or travel and explore the world.
Fernweh
(German)
It’s that emptiness you feel after coming home. It’s craving the new, missing culture shock and feeling adventurous at essentially every moment
Fernweh and Wanderlust have almost the same specific meaning, but germans still separate them into two words
I travelled the world looking for understanding
Of the times that we live in
Hunting and gathering first hand information
Challenging definitions of sin
I travelled the world looking for lovers
Of the ultimate beauty but never settled in
I'm a wonderlust king
I stay on the run, let me out, let me be gone
In the world beat up road sign
I saw new history of a time, new history of time
And presidents and billionaires and generals
They'll never know, they'll never know
What I have owned, what I have owned
I'm a wonderlust king
~ Wonderlust King (Gogol Bordello)
Travel plans gone astray are dancing lessons from God.
~ Kurt Vonnegut