The Adventure has already begun!
We are the lonelesome traveler. How have we been? Since our return from our long journeys, we've brought back knowledge, ideas, cultural awareness, literature, unique taste of exotic dishes, wines, friendship and hope. With all we've were hoping to establish is ruin. Ruin by those we missed so much while we were away. They (our friends and family) want to return the state of normalcy in our lives. You think while you were away that these people were just wondering what ideas you were going to present to them upon our arrival, did you? Near our return home, they sat around trying to find a way to block or not acknowledging where we've been or what we can bring into their lives. Instead, our friends are dating someone new. Or our friends found a new job or they have all of sudden found God and somehow we have fallen from Grace.
Lonelseome Traveler, though we can't have the same exprience as we did while away from home. Smiling at strangers in our own community is not encouraged. Instead, we must reeducate ourselves by rebuilding the walls that seperate us from our fellow citizens. Being overly friendly, like we were away from home will prompt questions to our intentions. We must return to normalcy! We return to watch television shows with new faces, but yet the same scenario of roommates living in a house, working long hours, police shows were the cops are always right and innocent is put away in jail. Television news is something we have lost touch with their sense of reality. While we were traveling in the world. News was inviting, informative and even with the information we've received, we still trusted strangers over the same faces we see in our community back home. But, slowly we will somehow find ourselves believing that the world outside of our borders are filled with evil men, women and children; whose sole desire is still kill us and convert our ways into theirs. But lonelesome traveler, remember when we were in North Africa and we needed food? Didn't that North African family provide us with a home cook meal and a place to rest our head? Do you remember when they tried to offer us money to make sure we had a safe journey to our next destionation? Now, these kind people who had nothing (which we will equate to our living standards) are suddenly our enemies?
Lonelesome traveler, our friends have decided to play dumb to most obvious things in life. How do we handle these friends? We try to dumb down intelligent conversations in order to fit in. Realizing that these friends of ours are dumbing things down only to get a piece of ass. Where do we fit in this non-existence reality? We know the truth, only because we've exprienced it. Suddenly, we become alone. The only reminders that we have that there is world outside of our communities are through pictures, e-mail from other lonelesome travelers just like us, maps, books and music we picked up along the way. We become even lonelier, because we have no one to share our lives. We begin to sell out and become part of the crowd. We change our fashion to mirror our friends. We suddenly give up on reading and becoming informed only to have a chance to get some after the club. We become consumers in this hyper-materialistic world where we don't want to acknowledge that we are lonely or sad. We buy things so we don't feel our deep feelings.
, we must meet again, keep in touch and seek to find others like ourselves. We must work and save money to take off for another adventure. We must not indulge in this hyper consuming economy. We must manage our money like we did while away from home. We must be ready at all times to explore new places even within our own communities. We should encourage our friends to come with us. But, if our friends fail to tag along, due to bullshit reasons of "my girlfriend/boyfriend or both for this matter, my job, too tired, not interested or flakiness. We must seek our adventures alone. The same way we did, when we boarded that plane and the way when we arrived to our new destionation not knowing east to west, stranger to a friend, new friend to a new lover. We must seek that adventure if no one else will come with us. Look forward,
lonelesome traveler, soon we will meet again.
