The energy of travel. One that overcomes you when your mobile.It happens to me all the time.Its a moment i crave for.Rickshaw, Taxi,Bus,Train.The high of movement.That feeling of arriving somewhere and planning for it, before you have arrived.I am filled with determination to do something significant for the day, or just very confident of doing what i am headed towards. At times i have thought it to be so common that i presumed all feel it.But am not sure.
Psychologically, i would think this emotion occurs for it covers you in excitement of an action while your im-mobile.You are doing nothing nothing yet moving,we all would wish for that in life - to do nothing yet to keep moving ahead.It takes you somewhere without an ounce of effort from you. Physically, i am moving yet i have all the energy to think.What else can you "do" that can let you have the freedom of thinking about anything other than that very act? Security of the fact that your direction is taken care of.You are undoubtedly headed the way you desire,so what are you going to do, think free, invite optimism.
I found it to be the best time to dream, to fill myself with ambition and confidence, and all these leading to make me my creative/motivated best.Its a charge, that leads me through any matter.Fills me with ways and means, however impractical, but a way nonetheless.Its almost like you brain, heart and gut's most preferred time to come together
Rarely however, have i managed to sustain it. Well, for the merit of it(those ambitious thoughts), i guess doing is never as easy.But i never stop thanking that moment, when i was in it, quiet literally on top of the world.
It seems too good to a state to be true. And i am not under the influence of any substance, making it more desirable. Is there anything better than a self-high. Sustainable, cheap, independent.......and a great feeling to share.
i feel like i'm in an alternate reality while traveling.
ReplyDeletehave traveled almost an hour and a half one-way daily.. and very rarely have i felt that it's taking forever. i drift off... observe... shut-out (depending on the mood that day). yeah, it is difficult to translate those thoughts into something concrete... but well... i'm just glad i have/had them! somehow, it also sets the mood for the rest of my day, tho.
the last line IS good. :)
yup....best time to dream and drift :)
ReplyDeleteIt's nice when you can drift off but I don't really like travelling for long... makes me irritable.
ReplyDeletelong travel can be boring, yes. I feel "long" is the time additional to what one has budgeted for. Which is to say a day long train journey can still be fun & a delayed flight irritating.
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