Escape of a lifetime.

What is it about traveling that makes people more worldly? I guess the answer is obvious, but it is pretty amazing at how those who have left their home and moved far away have so much more wisdom and insight.  In my home town, everyone is so stuck in a rut, and I can see that in other places, but never as bad as that place.

I admit, I’m not as much of a gypsie as some people, but I was born in Texas, lived in North Carolina for eleven years, lived close to Little Rock, AR. For a year, and now I’m in Oklahoma. Rural OK at that. Its been a wonderful life, and I’ve been amazed at what I’ve seen and how far I’ve come, but I still find those people, whom are older, yet they just don’t seem to have this experience with life.

A lust for life, as I like to call it. I love life, all its ups and downs and odd turns. I’ve been amazed at how much I’ve learned and how far I’ve truly come spiritually. Coming from a place where hardly a tree grows, and where you can see the next town ten miles down the road, I moved to a place of mountains and forests.  One of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, in fact. There’s something about standing on a mountain to inspire the soul.

I personally think that’s the key, but that’s from my own personal experience. People in my old home town are just zombies. The wake up, work, eat, rent movies, sleep. This constant cycle of not being able to enjoy a sunset. But then, I remember living in the mountains, being so amazed at the natural beauty, and a friend of mine saying, "So that mountain there, you know what’s on the other side? Another mountain.... Know what’s after that? Another mountain."

Are people naturally indisposed to be completely desensitized to the surroundings they grew up in? Is there a common need to actually relocate, that people ignore, and that’s why so many people get lost in the repetition of life and find no inspiration at all?

These are actually questions I ponder quite often. I figure maybe its just certain souls that crave more, because I know people who are content in their own misery, and they are in misery, you can see it on them, how they carry themselves.... All I know for sure is, I’m glad I escaped that place. I’m glad I moved on and found the world as my place, instead of my place in the world.

–Dan