Rules of Good Travelling

Some suggestions for when you travel:

1. whenever you buy something, leave something else behind (e.g. if you get a new shirt, give the old one away)
2. have a minimum travel time of 3 weeks
3. goal is to meditate, hence you are searching for detachment from reality, awareness, inner peace, sense of belonging to the world, letting it all go.

It is a rollicoster of feelings, especially when you travel by yourself as you will be exposed to greater dangers, loneliness, difficulty in grasping the benefits of travelling alone, and no one to share your emotions with. If you travel with someone else, the experience will be much less absolute but still good as long as you will allow time for yourself. The positive side of having a travel buddy is that you can think out loud, debate, defend or abandon your arguments, and perhaps more quickly find your way.

Whether you opt to begin the travel alone or not, the experience of fully opening up to the world will allow you to reassess your life and put things back into perspective. You will more easily recognise right from wrong, re-establish life priorities, discover truths about man/life/universe.

MediTravel

When I travel alone in new places I love to witness my awareness growing. My senses get all fully active and receive so much more information (leading to feelings and emotions) than they usually do.

This is the reason why I often say that travelling for me is a sort of meditation. It represents one of the few moments when I can experience full awareness.

Although I always try to improve my approach to travelling by adding further simplicity, calm and relaxation, I often find myself departing with a structured plan of places to visit and things to do. My written plan inevitably ends up progressively losing shape and my role during the trip shifts from being an attentive observer (a type of tourist) to a participant. As the trip goes on I find myself taking less and less pictures as I absorb more and more of what surrounds me.

Let's Get Started!

Although the blog is named after me, most of the entries will not be. Instead their focus will be on issues of life that are arguably of interest to most people, such as the pursuit of happiness, pleasure, human nature, education, distribution of time, etc. Of course, in doing so I will sometimes refer to my personal experiences to better explain how my views matured overtime, but that will never be the emphasis.

I was not sure of the content for my first entry. On one side I wanted to start by simply sharing my thoughts as they emerged in my mind. On the other I felt it was important for me to briefly describe how I have become who I am today. So, as post Number One, I have written a brief biography and named it "About Me". I hope you'll enjoy the reading...