Anthony Bourdain says it best,
"This is a big gorgeous planet. I want it all."
I suffer from a serious case of wanting every corner of the planet- its cycles, its beauty, and its people, so one night I found myself searching for a way to get this down on paper. I glued down old guidebook pages and began putting some of my favorite quotes on there. My mind started viewing this as a wanderlust treasure map with each quote offering some sort of an explanation for why I want the world so badly and the desire to do meaningful work in it. While still in search for the answer that perhaps I may spend the rest of my life looking for, it has shown me that my search so far may be the reason I keep wanting to go back for more.
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Wow. Inspiring...
ReplyDeleteYou know what, I love the video. Wow I didn't know you had such awesome video editing skills, jill!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have often wondered where my wanderlust comes from. I am not sure if it was the way I was raised, or if it was just in me from the beginning. Even when I am on a trip somwhere, I am already thinking of my next trip.
So if the wanerlust came from a good place, I would say it is my desire to see new things and absorb culture. I feel like I learn so much from a journey; as if it were life x 10. The good part of traveling is that it really lets me see my own existence from a different perspective, and therefore makes me appreciate my life and the lives of others.
If my wanderlust came from a bad place, I would say it is my insatiable search, as if it were a hunger that could never be fulfilled. When people have this kind of appetite for money or power, it is easy to say 'oh they'll never be satisfied!" However, I think the same thing for my trips. I will NEVER be satisfied. I can't sit still in the same place. I will always want to hop back onto that plane again and swim in some foreign sea.
The truth is that my wanderlust probably comes from a weird combination of both good and bad desires. Yin and Yang
I suppose that the opposite of a traveler would be a homebody. Although I try not to judge, I feel unsettled with homebodies who refuse to travel because I feel like it limits their life experiences. Are there any homebodies out there that have an argument towards staying at home and being content with your own world? How does it make you feel when you come in contact with a wanderer? Do you feel like they are a loose cannon?
Ok and Marrrrrrrkkkkk... your response was a JENNIFER ANISTON movie. wtf!
ReplyDeleteAlthough i consider myself to really enjoy and learn from travelling, Rita, your question about anyone being a homebody has caused to me to really think about travelling and how i feel at home or wherever i am.
ReplyDeleteI would never call myself a homebody, bc i can't seem to stay in one place for very long and am always itching to get somewhere else. BUT, in all of my travels, no matter where in the world, i find that my outlook on life, in spite of location, does not change ... at least not too much. I find that i am always grasping at the experience, but while experiencing it, i am almost contemplating on the aftermath of what i will have learned, or what my life will look like after. It's an insatiable feeling i have never been able to explain ...
i have NEVER felt a desire to stay in a place, but i ALWAYS feel sad when i leave one. it really doesnt even matter if it was a good place or a bad place/experience.
i guess my question on all of this is, what does "home" mean to the wanderlust person? Maybe our emotions on the concept of "home" are what drive us to travel and experience -- maybe it is not that some people just dont have "it" -- that desire to get out -- but maybe it is that WE do not have what they do, which allows them to experience complacency in a different lifestyle.
or maybe it's both. or neither.
due to my lack of sleep this weekend and coffee this morning, i have no eloquence of speech or clear communication available to me right now....therefore my response to this video will be in the form of a list.
ReplyDelete1) wow
2) i cant help but see footage of 3rd world countries and think about how effing hot it is there.
3) i lived in sri lanka/indonesis for 6 months and every morning it felt like a dragon was breathing on my face.
4) i dont know if im a homebody, but my adventurous spirit comes forth dramatically once i have some sort of stable geographical base in my life. after that i skip town. its just good to have something to come back to.
5) this reminds me of the movie Hideous Kinky.
6) there was a brief photo of uncooked red meat that flashed during this video. that caught me off guard.
7) get me out of america.
8) nice work.
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ReplyDelete1. jill, i loved your video. looking forward to our North Korea travels hahha
2. mark, you are retarded. <3
Jamie, there is a quote on the map picture (first shot)in the video that I have loved ever since I read it in regards to "home". I have always connected with his sentiments. It says, "It is midnight now. The plane from Buenos Aires and Santiago has just arrived. I am eager to board and head north; but I am also aware that something has happened to me. I sit here and wonder if going north still means going home."
ReplyDeleteThe best way I can describe my view of home in addition to the quote is to say that on a small scale it is something like a cherished detachment. I am the ball attached to a pole by a tether. The pole is home, the tether is what keeps me going in revolving circles at times and resting softly against it at others. Its existence, and me not being responsibly for it (hello family) is the very reason I have the freedom to go and come from it as I please.
On a larger scale, home to me is something that can be created anywhere. It doesn't have to be in one's house, with blood relatives, for a long period of time. I have learned that by widening my view of family, I am also opening how I define it. By broadening the definition and letting myself think of alternative possibilities of these concepts, I am allowed to live a life with more sharing than I have ever known.