During my last trip to the highlands in South America where I couldn’t post anything on the blog, (because I had a bad idea: to travel without my laptop) I was only dedicated to writing and while I was flying to Peru, this asked to come out into the light….
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It does not interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of being alive.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Are you still trying to figure what has that woman who has walked eternal horizons to captivate you like she does?
When you meet a free soul, your life will be different, because with her you have felt the freedom to be yourself, the freedom to enjoy life with the aim of a child who is amazed at everything under his eyes.
The inner world of a traveler is full with illusion, and a constant search to see manifested the magic of life.
Because nobody is the same after seeing the moon from the other side of the planet, or after being walking in a city of incomprehensible language.
The home of a wanderer is now no longer a physical place, her home is where the heart is located, and her heart is where she decided it to be.
For the same reason, her heart is where she is happy and in every place that has lead to an experience that changed her life a little.
If you are willing to be honest and open up your heart, you will find in her a universe of infinite possibilities.
And, I will tell you a secret: If you can make her dream a bit you’ve taken the first step towards her soul.
She knows reality can change within a second, so she is living so intensely. That intensity would be probably incomprehensible to you, but she has a certainty about life’s rhythm that is incomprehensible even to herself.
She knows that happiness is a decision and that life is made to enjoy every moment, so she does not make problems with things that are not worth it.
A wanderer woman has learned that it is better to risk losing everything than to stay with doubts and regretting life.
With each trip she remembers that life is happening now, that time and distance are very relative when souls are connected.
If you’ve met a traveler know you can trust her fully because she trusts you and life as a perfect symphony in which each piece is as important as the other.
She knows life is all about synchronicities and causalities because despite believing in magic she has seen that nothing is really casual, you have to know what you want to achieve in life and then work for it, so it all makes sense after a while.
A woman who has ventured alone to the world understands the value of love and friendship because in her solitude she has broken down the barriers and fears that prevented her from connecting with others.
She knows the pain that means leaving everything behind because she has already left everything to pursue her dreams. But she has also experienced the immense joy of knowing that there are millions of people who feel and vibrate like her.
Probably you see her being extremely strong and independent, but that’s just her way to keep herself safe. This is how she has survived in the most difficult situations on the road. She is much more sensitive than even she wants to acknowledge.
Chances are she has already rebuilt her heart like a puzzle several times because she only knows how to live to the fullest and always playing all-in when she think is worth it.
She knows it’s only a matter of time and everything heals little by little.
But beware if you damage her or broke her trust, she will not hesitate a moment to pack her suitcase and leave, taking her heart to a safer port, where open her soul does not mean being hurt or losing herself.
I guess you’re afraid to fall in love with her and believe she can go at any time.
You’re right, she’ll be gone when you see her nails are too long and perfect, because what makes vibrate her soul is living the adventure and the unknown.
If she has put her heart next to yours she will be back as quickly as possible.
Her long and infinite months or years of travel will become days or weeks, and much better, if you want to join her travels, she will show you how she lives into this vibrant world.
If she has decided to stay with you, it’s not because she needs you, because she does not need anyone to be happy. Along the way, she has learned to love and to be happy sharing only with herself.
She doesn’t mind to take herself to dinner, a movie or a concert (even she secretly enjoy it a lot!).
If she decides her heart is with you, it’s because she believes that together you will make a much more interesting trip, and it will be a much greater adventure to share with you each destination.
After all, the life of a traveler is somewhat lonely, not even her best friends understand or accept that constant movement and at some point, she realizes that freedom can be shared, and being with someone doesn’t mean losing her most valued treasure.
Despite all the fear she has of being wrong again she is still believing in love.
If she has chosen you is because she has seen in yourself that same dreamer spirit and believes it’s worth traveling through life … with you.
*** I know there have been many articles written about this topic, with different versions of it and even when I write so little about love and relationships I couldn’t avoid sharing my view of this topic. Perhaps one day soon I will tell you what happend right after writing this…sometimes words keep some magic…
This is one of the first articles about this, I really like this story about travel and love, this one too and this one.
Many of these articles are inspired by this magnificent text attributed to Simone de Beauvoir
Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads, a woman who feels too much, a woman who writes…
Don’t fall in love with an educated, magical, delusional, crazy woman. Don’t fall in love with a woman who thinks, who knows what she knows and also knows how to fly; a woman sure of herself.
Don’t fall in love with a woman who laughs or cries making love, knows how to turn her spirit into flesh; let alone one that loves poetry (these are the most dangerous), or spends half an hour contemplating a painting and isn’t able to live without music.
Don’t fall in love with a woman who is interested in politics and is rebellious and feel a huge horror from injustice. One who does not like to watch television at all. Or a woman who is beautiful no matter the features of her face or her body.
Don’t fall in love with a woman who is intense, entertaining, lucid and irreverent. Don’t wish to fall in love with a woman like that. Because when you fall in love with a woman like that, whether she stays with you or not, whether she loves you or not, from a woman like that, you never come back…”
Some moments one cannot express the poetry of what you feel. Who is there? What breaks of rays of light on sunsets passing, changing each moment. Shadows of leaves dancing in the winds on the wall. Recitations from a book, spoken aloud to another, or no one else? What if it is something you missed, went right past you in a moment of distraction, and there was no one there to capture the clue. A good friend sees what you present, knows your heart, helps you communicate it better to others, if that is what you need help with. And hear what you have to say, when you need to be heard.
Thank you for your words!
You find the right partner, you live better, you travel safer. You learn more. They help you to learn, to teach,to work better. If you’re a nomad too, then you’re going to treat each other better, ’cause you don’t want to lose so much! And if sometimes you have a home, that becomes another adventure too! Gathering momentum to launch again.Hope we find each other, wherever you might be sweetheart. Until then, we roam alone.