Serenity

Photo by Hans Villarica

After conversing with the Other and understanding one another completely, despite all the odds, the distance, and the individual differences, you feel light. At the same time, you feel strong that you could finally face whatever it is that will come your way. Your ability to be strong and light at the same time makes you even more powerful as a person.

And the best thing is you know that you are not entirely alone. You entrust yourself with the Other, so much so, that you allow the Other to love you, care for you, and be with you in spirit. And you do the same. You may be in two different places, traveling the world in two different times, but you are heading towards one direction. And that direction is towards each other’s paths, which eventually become one.

As travelers, you have to learn how to travel light. As a hopeful traveler myself, I believe that traveling light does not only mean a lighter backpack or leaving my famous blue kikay kit behind. More than the physical baggage that I could leave at home, traveling with a light heart is probably the best advice I could ever follow (and this time, the best advice I could ever give as well).

Travel with a light heart and you will come home richer. Your experiences will not be blurred by negative biases and you will finally view the world with the kind of innocence that we all once had. Each time, you will view the world with awe, with wonder, like a child. And each time, the world will be beautiful.

When you finally come to the end of your journey, you will be thankful that you brought along with you not a heavy heart, but a light one.

And you will be amazed that at the end of it all, the richest travelers are the ones with the lightest hearts.

When we finally learn this, we continue our journey beyond our first destination.

Hopefully when that time comes, we'd all get to embrace each of our experiences.
And would have finally learned to LIVE and LOVE.