MY TRAVELS
You know, we are all governed by a circadian rhythm and I have found that travelling through so many time zones as often as I do often messes that rhythm up completely. Makes me arrive in the most exotic places and feel completely off kilter and miserable and wide awake in the dead of night and sleepy in broad daylight!

I have also found myself cursing the security lines and procedure – I mean really – I might as well fly wearing nothing at all. I find myself annoyed that people who all have a destination seem lost all the time. I am annoyed by the cabin pressure – the impending germs and possible turbulence etc.... The constant rush of displacement when you land in an airport for the first time in a different time zone and even a different season.

But lately I realized. ENOUGH with the whining!

Yes, it is inconvenient to feel lost, incoherent and grouchy – but isn’t a lost feeling part of the excitement of travelling to new faraway places? It is a reminder that distance is real. The world really ISNT a small place.. that miles aren’t something we tally up on our frequent flyer accounts. It’s a big world.

There are wide, massive oceans and land masses between us all. It is one of the profound gifts of being alive right now – the ability to get up and go everywhere.. anywhere… to experience the world, the cultures that previous generations only dreamed of. And for us, how easy is it??

We should stand in awe and appreciation that today I can be in America and tomorrow in Russia – where people don’t speak the same languages, wear the same apparel and have a whole history in their nation.

A little sleeplessness, a touch of bewilderment and grouchiness is a small price to pay – a modern ailment that reminds us that we have evolved and advanced in a world where what seemed impossible years ago – is not only possible – but.. Ordinary almost…

From now on.. I am going to appreciate the blessing of my travels with all its turbulence.. J