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Thailand in December - To Be A Traveller...


To Be A Traveller... 12/25/04
 
~ 8pm



  So, Christmas, and today I left my island paradise. Now it is evening and I am on a train again headed for Bangkok. I always feel good moving, and the almost full moon hangs brightly outside the window.

   I had an interesting experience earlier today on the boat - I went up to watch Ko Phan Ngan moving away behind us. And as I stood on the edge of that boat, my hands at the railing, the wind all around me, white waves pushing out below me, and the sun and the tropical, almost turquoise blue waters, I felt I AM a world traveller now. I really have gone a lot of places. And often on this trip I feel I have forgotten what country I'm in - Morocco? U.S.? Vietnam? No, Thailand. But  I realized, the unfamiliar is almost beginning to seem more familiar to me than the places I am supposed to know.

  And somehow, in that, I feel successfull...? Just, standing on the edge of that boat, I suddenly felt successful. Eventhough I do not have a grand career path or incredible well respected well paying jobs. I felt successful because I was there. I have been in Thailand, I have touched that sea. I have breathed this air, walked these streets, ridden these trains. I have travelled I have felt I have experienced. And that is how I feel successful. Because despite it all, I am alive and full with life and the world.

 
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