The planning, leading up, packing, circling the date on your calender, setting your alarm for a time only business people or miners would wake up at.. the day comes quickly, and before you know it your off on this uncertain journey that can make or break your life. Your trip will show you things you've been too blinded to see, while realizing what you took for granted in your normal everyday life. Some people count down the days before their trip is over because its just not what they wanted. but then others wish it would never end, like they could run away from everything in their lives back home. Sadly, either way that day comes usually filled with sadness and hurrying. they checkout, count heads and hit the road toward commitment, waving goodbye freedom...
but we suck it up, take a deep breath, and board the plane. descend and soon enough land. this is when the stress comes into play, we leave the Tarmac, walking in lines like at the grocery store,,, usually greeted with strangers and loneliness, theres no warm arms waiting for us from friends or family. we start the pressure and worry looking at the signs, while racing toward the round about luggage pickup area and impatiently waiting til we see the label to identify its your luggage from the other boring same colored suitcases like yours coming down the line. without even realizing it were running , dodging people and knocking them out of the way to get the bags before there carried off, leaving you waiting for them to come back around...
this is when we usually stop smiling and put our serious faces on. we run to the car or other means of getting home,.
Soon enough you reach your neighbourhood and somehow you realize so many things look different, you appear to see the bigger picture and everything looks new and slightly creepy almost like a movie. you reach Home, and realize even that too looks different , un lived in and more run down then you thought. you take time to see the shape and the state of it, the grass, plants , trees and even sometimes the gate.. we look at everything we usually forget to any other usual day..
the holiday you just had soon becomes a distant memory almost like a dream. But that soon becomes okay when you get inside and feel that presence you've been dying to feel all the time you werent here.. you become aware of how much you missed since you came back..
Even though homesickness greets you very quickly into your Trips, you still cant wait til you get to go on another one, usually counting down the days or months til its upon you again.. often wishing the days would go faster cause you've become stuck in the same routine day after day, the one you promised yourself you wouldn't get into again.. but you knew that was a lie anyways...
Yep, Holidays can be Great. they leave you refreshed, showing you everything you should be grateful for, and also shows you things that ll stay with you for all your days.
That is truly lovely
xox
