Wanderlust or Pinterlust?

Recently, I was talking with a friend of mine about some upcoming travelling she has coming up this summer. I had seen on Facebook where she had posted about what she was going to study abroad and had launched one of those funding websites to help offset some costs associated with the trip.

We were talking about necessary vaccinations and having to get a passport when she said something so truthful, it was revolutionary…and hasn’t left my mind since that hallway conversation:

“I wanted to travel the world until it is actually happening. Now I am perfectly fine to stay in my living room.”

How many of us have read Dr. Seuss’s All the Places You Will Go, made a list of our Wanderlust to “Do Before We Die!”, made a board on Pinterest, and posted pictures on Tumblr, Facebook, and Instagram of all the places we plan to go before we get married or have kids or die?

A lot of us have.

Some of us are cut out for that kind of life.

Some of us may be in the middle, a Lily Aldrin, we will settle down but travel a little first.

And for some of us, we may find out, would rather stay in our living rooms because the nuts and bolts are just more overwhelming than those episodes of Friends and movies where the characters just pick up and buy tickets for the next plane to nowhere and figure it all out once they’re there.

I wonder if sometimes we get so wrapped up in the lust of things we don’t have that we don’t ever notice and appreciate what we do have.

Don’t spend so much time making up a life in England and leave behind the life you have here in the meantime.

If you spend all that time dreaming up where you’re going to go, you’ll miss a lot of fun times you can have in the here and now.

Slow down a little bit.

You can still plan to visit or move, if you will, but enjoy what you have now.

We’re pretty cool here in West Virginia. We’ve got some cool people to meet, friends to make, and maybe someday travel with. 

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