Morning Thoughts in Athens
It can become a bit intimidating, being on the road a lot, there are warning signs that cannot be ignored. Your suitcase gets a personality and even a gender, you are attached. You live for your email and facebook messages instead of taking a walk around after dinner. You count on wake up calls but you awake before they come. City maps aren’t needed because you are taken to see the sites is a huge tip off. It is then that you have to think how lucky you are, and appreciate what is on your plate. The world is a huge buffet and you are pigging out! Places most dream of seeing are there before your eyes. You realize that you know thank you and please in several languages and you use them. You talk with people that you normally would pass by and a smile is really a wonderful thing to experience, as it should be. It is a beautiful sunny morning here in Athens and the Acropolis is right out my window. The sea is just past and blue as an albino cats eyes. The hostess at breakfast asks how you are feeling and it feels like she cares. When on the road it is the little things that gain importance as well as the amazing things you see. You promise yourself to remember that for the whole beautiful day.
posted by Kent E St. John at 1:22 AM
1 Comments:
The world is rich and complex, full of endless, tiny details that hold the power to delight, challenge, illuminate. Every block of every city, including our own at home, it seems, can bring this to our lives. Athens is one's hometown, maybe just writ a bit larger. How lucky to be in the world, but how much better, even, to know that it's the way of being in the world that makes every day an awakening. The luck of the travel writer is that he or she is granted the platform to share the wonderment with others. Although I guess one could argue that a walk down a country lane with an avid companion grants that same benediction. The pointing out of a falling down building, the rusty architecture of an abandoned lobster pot, the aching blues, as you point out, of the skies and waters. We should all be travelers, every day.
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