Around The World

Do you ever feel like running away? To get away from the pressures, work, and people? There are days I feel like that. There are days that I wish I could just get up and leave and never stop traveling. I used to have these dreams all the time when I was sleeping. I would just decide to start walking. I didn't know where I was going, but I didn't want to stay in the same place anymore. I didn't have any expectations of what I would find. All I knew is that I wanted to go. I want to fly across the ocean, travel through Europe, see all of the things I have only dreamed of seeing, meet people, and do things that I have never done before. I don't have any desire to take much with me, just a suitcase. I want to travel through Egypt and see the great pyramids. I want to live with other cultures and learn their ways and languages. I don't want to feel tied back or caged in. I want to feed the poor. I want to be surrounded by African and Chinese children, giving them water, clothing them, and showing them love. I want to go sailing by Australia and dancing in Italy. I want to get dirty working to help rebuild villages and tanned from walking outside under the sun. I want to sing Jesus Loves You in an African tongue with little children in a newly built one room classroom with wood floors. I want to learn to ride horseback through the valleys of Ireland. I want to see the place where I was born in Japan and walk the same streets my parents did when I was just a baby.
Call me crazy, but I want these things. Watching a film on the broken and hurting around the world calls to my spirit. I know why I live.