I lost myself in the Bermuda Triangle, I found myself there too

BERMUDA

I was extremely lucky to call such a beautiful island home for 4 months and I fell head over heels in love with the place. However, they say all good things must come to an end and leaving and returning home was incredibly difficult.

People ask me how it feels to be 'back home', however I struggle to answer that question as England no longer feels like home. As I travel I get attached to places and for short periods of time that becomes my home. So in the same way I have no permanent address, I also have no permanent home. This is a blessing; I have so many beautiful places around the world I can call home now.

 I came back 'home' to realise that nothing had changed except me. I slotted back into the life I'd left behind exactly as I had previously, with the people around me completely unaware that my perspective on life has shifted so dramatically that i'm a different person entirely now. Life here has nothing to offer me. It's like when you turn down the contrast on a tv, all the colour has been sucked out of life and everything seems so dull. I miss Bermuda.

After my experiences travelling, I look at the people around me with a mixture of fascination and disbelief. I just can't comprehend how people are happy to stay in one place there entire lives and not experience the world and all it has to offer, it seems like an extremely limited way to live and after all we only live once, why wouldn't you seize every opportunity and make the most of it?

I realised that you can preach until you're blue in the face to people that all the trivial things they are stressing over really don't matter because there are much more important things and life is far too short. However, if they haven't travelled and seen the things you have, their perspective hasn't shifted like yours has and so your words will fall on deaf ears like water off a ducks back.

Back home I feel uprooted, like a flower that has been picked. Once it's been plucked out of the soil it has been changed irreversibly, you can stick it back in the ground but it's roots have been severed, the connection it had has been lost, it can never return to be what it was before.

All I can say, to those who want to listen, is: just go. Explore the world, take every opportunity it has to offer and just live. After all life is too short and it only happens once, but do it right and once is enough. I promise it will be worth it.