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.
