i realized today that in all honesty, what brings out my romantic side most are places which i love. and i say love in the most deliberate sense. i am completely and unabashedly in love with so many places - cities, villages, hills, dales, all that and more. i love places the way we all love people too: for their inimitable flaws and eyesores as well as their charms and roses. like new york city for example. obviously not the most warm and fuzzy locale. but i am in a full-blown love affair with the place! even with it's scrapes and bumps.
and i've been thinking of all this because in just a week i will leave new york for nearly 3 months away. and i'm thrilled, because of course i'm simply transplanting myself to other places/lovers of mine.... (sundance!!! oh heavenly mountains and quietness!!!)
and i've also been thinking of this today because i came across a friend's blog. she was reminiscing about her time at grad school in england and my heart fluttered and leaped and sunk and broke all at the same moment. oh HUGE sigh how much i miss and love england's rolling hills and old stone and being a gown-wearing student in the midst of it all...
and so here is my full-blown wanderlust revealed. when i am in new york, i love it, but of course miss oxford, miss sundance, miss switzerland, paris, niamey, the list goes on! all the glorious places packed into my heart. and i get restless to want to visit them again, to feel their uniqueness surround me once more. but never for too long before i want to skip off and visit somewhere else. how is it possible to actually settle in a place? i love where i live, but is it abnormal to be so fluttery and emotional at the thought of another beloved place? and am i really so spoiled that 6 months "confined" in one location seems like a great feat to be applauded? (yes, i know the answer to that. WAY spoiled. believe me i'm fully aware of how lucky i've been to see all the places i've seen. for real.)
sigh. in any case the point is i go to sundance next week. and i will no doubt miss new york city the moment i'm away, despite loving the mountains of utah as much as i do, and despite the fact that today they are all i can think about. obviously since it is quite clearly distracting me from work, thus i blog. ha! i'm in a cubicle. it can't be helped :)
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i miss so many places, too. but at some point in your life, you will find that you are, in a word, stuck in one place, for good or bad. but life goes in phases. i know i'll travel again one day, just not quite yet. it's painful, but alas.
I'm in love with Paris.
J'adore.
You inherited your wanderlust from me! it is sooo amazing that we lived in villa park for 23 years! sacrifice for all of you - mom
You are such a blessed girl. Do things while you are young!
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