Independent traveller

Alright I'm currently in National Library now. Since I'm doing anything here, I've decided to post a story. This time round - being a traveler.

Whenever I am in Changi, be it me going back, sending someone off, or fetching someone from there, I always look at the departure board. I looked at it, and tell myself. I wish I'm taking that plane to London... (Or other destinations).

I may sound foolish, dreaming of just taking a flight to another country. And what's more foolish is that I'm talking to myself over a departure board. Well as foolish as I might have sounded. I really feel it's not really a foolish dream at all. I'm just wishing and hoping that I will one day travel round the world. And perhaps one day, catching that flight to London.

So my ultimate dream is to be a traveler.

An independent traveler.

This is one of the most impossible dream that could ever happen. Firstly, my definition of an independent traveler is basically someone with the ability to travel anywhere, without the worries of money, time, and lack of freedom. Someone who can travel with that sense of joy and freedom, that feeling where they have all the time in this world.

And of course the travel must be a safe and enjoyable one. I wouldn't want to travel to places where it is so crowded, where I would be hassling myself among a crowd of people. It's just weird isn't it. And I would also want to travel to countries and experience a life of the locals. Most importantly, be bathed in their culture.

Life is nothing but a journey. Sometimes I just feel that it is really a waster to throw an opportunity of traveling, if you have the chance to. Seeing the world with your own eyes is like one of life's greatest gift. The ability to savour freedom, to taste joy, and to be liberated from the chains of life.

When I was in Sweden, or maybe Norway, with my sister last year. I remembered it was one of the best times of my life that I've ever been. It was a moment in that year where I did not feel worried, I did not feel stressed, I did not even think of life. All I did was to enjoy. Alas, I've regretted for not doing many things in which I could do then.

So that's a reason why I've always enjoyed watching travel shows. I might not be the real person to experience the joy of the travel, but at least I've got the chance to feel what it is to be there, in the country. I always feel fascinated by those shows. Like as if I was there experiencing it. But of course not.

Life is always a dream. Everything is. Sometimes those dreams come true, while sometimes it just don't. But well nothing is wrong to continue dreaming. No mater how foolish a dream is, it is still a dream. And remember to always dream a thousand dreams.

If I were to see a shooting star now, I would wish nothing but a wish for me to be able to explore the world. To travel around the world before time runs out.

I just really feel that it's such a waste, not to be able to see the world with one own's eyes, when one has the opportunity to do so.