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You travel miles and miles to experience the inexperienced. You travel miles and miles to immerse yourself in someone else's culture and to be a part of something you never thought you would be. You travel miles and miles not to escape but to learn. You may succeed and when you do you know it. You know because you can feel it. This feeling may not last for a long time but it forms a part of you which will never leave. It gives you new ideas, a new outlook on life and a new concept of life. The faces you meet along the way become part of your new experience, part of who you are becoming and part of the magic. You may only see these faces once in your whole life but for some reason you will never forget them. They live miles away from you and you live miles away from them yet the discovery and key to the parts of the world you unlock is what you have in common with those faces. And when you're living the other side of the world that is the comfort you need.
If experiencing something was easy it wouldn't be a thrill. If experiencing something was challenging, it's changing you for the better. If experiencing something made you cry as well as laugh you've achieved much more than you'll ever know. You'll feel thousands of emotions which you've never experienced before in your life, some frightening but most send the best feeling through every inch of your body. If you stop these emotions you won't be able to grow; and growing is something you probably won't notice until you're in more of a familiar place with familiar faces who make anything better without even speaking.
……But the greatest concept? The greatest concept is realising that you can have nothing yet it seems like you have everything in the whole wide world.
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Dad Very profound Beth....I know what you mean.......keep it up, soak it up xxxxxxxxxxxx
James McCord YOLO...hahaa make the most of it Beth :) xxxxx
Mon This is a brilliant piece of thinking Teacher Bess. You have summarised the experience well and I thank you for sharing. P.S. You are SO not 19 ;P
Doreen Gould I can't believe what I have just read, it really made me very emotional and proud of you, as I read it I can see that the wonderful experiences you are having is making you grow into a very mature young Lady!. Take care L.O.L N & Gxxxxxxxxxxxxx