A concept that is lost at times as we are too busy making plans for our life. The choices we make in this one life we live (even if you believe we are reborn, this life, the one you are living right now, is the only one you will have as “you”) can mean so much more than the actual choice itself. My choice to travel hasn’t been about going to Korea or Brazil (destinations) but the interactions (journeys) I have with the people who are there. This is probably why I have not really been that interested in going to Antarctica or why when I go somewhere, walking through a museum doesn’t make me feel as though I have journeyed (though the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is one NOT TO MISS).
This may be why I have such an affinity for New York City, one of the most diverse metropolitan cities I continue to journey through...but such kinship was not embraced by my younger self (I grew up in South Side Jamaica Queens). I knew I wanted to get out of New York City at my first chance (which for me was college), but that was just me choosing a destination. It took that journey away, for me to realize what New York City is to me…a lesson well learned.
As I look back on my travels on this planet, I have grown an appreciation for my blessings (all of them). I am a firm believer in individual perspective and of course you are entitled to yours; how your interpretation of destinations and journeys reveal themselves to you is but your own!
Below is a Tripadvisor map that shows where I have been (yellow dots) and where I would like to visit (green dots). If the list gets bigger or stays exactly where it is, I plan to embrace my journey through the destinations of Random Lives!
