Posted by kuotsung | Posted in After-thoughts, Travel | Posted on 30-12-2010
Just these 4 months, I have been to alot of places. Too many places within North America that I find it astounding. Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Las Vegas, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper, Whitehorse, Vancouver, Seattle and the last stop pending is New York. I am writing this in Seattle Airport while waiting for my flight the next morning to NYC.
Add these places with the activities I have done so far. Watching classical music, picking apples, going theme park, riding up sky-high towers, watching IMAX films, skiing, aurora-gazing, museums-going, road-tripping, nature hiking etc. What else? There are more, but until I am more fresh and awake, I knew I cannot list anymore.
The world is so huge. Everywhere I go no matter how used I am to travelling, either alone or with groups, I still feel surreal that I am in another part of the world separated from my family. Some of the places I have visited resembled the places in Singapore. A small dark alley, a piece of cutlery, the doorway, the signage. Anything. I am just being reminded. But I am too being reminded that I am all alone. Alone that I could not reach home within a few days. Home as being defined as my real home in Singapore.
Sometimes I thought I will definitely and always become a better person from seeing more from what the world can offer me. But I also know I am not always right. Perhaps I am really away for too long from my closer ones that I did not realise I have become kinda what the society expects me to become. A long time guilt reoccurred to me suddenly that I am not practising what I should be doing. That is to cherish before people or things get lost.
The last leg of the trip to NY will last 5 days. I do not like to forecase what might happen, but it just happens and I seemed to know what will happen. Pushing myself to do what I should be doing is gonna be a challenge. But maybe that just will wrap up this long trip to be a memorable one.
For better or worse? I often take the positives. I still have so much to see from the world. Let this be a challenge for me to see more of it. Now, I need a recuperation.