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I Don't Actually Want To Travel All The Time!

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Let me say something that might sound confusing coming from someone who keeps talking about travel. I don’t actually want to travel all the time. Yup! You read that right. It may sound weird but man... I don’t want to constantly pack and unpack my life. I don’t want to measure time in boarding passes. I don’t want my personality to depend on how many countries I’ve been to. What I really want is much simpler, and somehow much harder. I want to experience living,  in the purest form possible, wherever I am. According to that place. Those people. That culture. I don’t want to visit places. I want to belong to them, briefly . The Quiet Lie We Tell Ourselves About Travel Somewhere along the way, we started using the word travel as a shortcut. We say, “I want to travel” when what we actually mean is: I want to slow down I want to feel present I want my days to feel less mechanical Travel became the easiest way to imagine a different life, but not necessarily wi...
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Why Am I Not Excited About My First International Trip!

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 Let me warm you up with a confession that feels slightly illegal to say out loud. "I am going on my first international trip...and I am not jumping with excitement."  Yup! There, I said it. I know. I know. "First international trip brooooo, how can you not be excited?" Trust me, I have asked myself the same question over a million times now. In my head. Loudly.  This trip is supposed to feel like a milestone, isn't it? First passport stamp. Airport photos. Mandatory Instagram stories apart from My Trip Dump. The whole freaking "life is happening" package. But, instead of pure excitement, what I'm feeling is something else.  A little excitement, absolutely. Butterflies in the stomach, most certainly.  But also...confusion. This weird "Expectation vs Reality" feeling that I just can't ignore.  What Everyone Thinks The First International Trip Should Feel Like According to the internet, society, random relatives and my friends, my fir...
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I Travel Rarely, But I Travel Deeply!

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I keep telling people I like slow travel, but most of the time it feels like an escape because let's face it, I am not able to travel at all right now. Even this piece, I am writing from a neighbourhood cafe, pretending I am on vacation.  I so  want to travel more. All the time. I think about it constantly. Random places, random food, random streets I’ve never walked on. And then I look at my life and it’s work, responsibilities, deadlines, and this constant feeling that I’m postponing myself for “later”. So when I see people my age moving cities, picking up hostel jobs, travelling without overthinking it, yeah, burns real bad bro. Sometimes more than I’d like to admit. Somewhere, I also feel that, along the way, travel has become a scoreboard for people. How often do you go. How many places you’ve been to. How stuffed your Instagram looks. I don’t do very well in that version of travel. Not because I don’t love it, but because travelling fast makes me anxious. I don’t enjo...
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