Rise, Set, Repeat

October 21, 2006 10:05am

Clouds are clearing, suns are shining, blues are hueing, and all I can help but think of is if brighter skies are elsewhere. Longing is an interesting take on life, and I can’t help but wonder if the struggle between content and aspiration will ever dwindle down to at least a feeling less impending, disheartening.

I’d like to eat a type of food with a name and ingredients I’ve never heard of in a little cobblestone alleyway with plants hanging over my head and the sounds of unintelligible languages filling my ears. Maybe a busker will offer me a coin of the land in exchange for a cigarette, his keen attention to detail and broken English eyeing me for a foreigner, and my desire for using my mouth for something other than chewing, I’ll take him up on the offer and push an extra bit of food his way. He’ll tell me how it is to live there, and I’ll agree with him.

I can talk to people for ages when I’m traveling, if given the opportunity. Once you’re “not from around here” people have so much more desire to discuss this, that and whatever with you. But talking to locals is a task, a challenge, an unpleasant challenge, actually, typically to be avoided at most costs.

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chadkicks 22 Oct 2006

hahaha, what an unforeseen, mean way to end this post. i was thinking while reading it that i’d never find a better traveling companion than you anywhere and that maybe i should find out if there’s a way of acting on a trip to europe in the next few years.

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nathan 23 Oct 2006

I believe you might be right in the assumption. I think I might make, for you, an excellent travelling companion.

I suppose the ending, however, would lead you to not want to hang out with me in my own hometown setting. Not if you wanted to meet new folk, anyway.

However, as directly related sidenote applicable sufficiently, alcohol makes conversation with anyone a breeze. But the next morning the realization that any plans made while intoxicated are null and void as of the morning hangover.

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