(Source: John Pearson)
Confession: I'd never heard of Anais Nin until I started reading Brain Pickings. I picked up her volume 5 diary at the end of 2012 and devoured it -- it's as if I found a kindred spirit in her writing.
She thinks and experiences life in a way I'd like to. Her words are poetic, thoughtful and deep -- I want to underline every sentence.
(Source: Me)
I hate returning from vacation. It always makes me depressed.
I really like my life in Singapore, but it can't compare to the joy of traveling. I have a high need for freedom (see choice theory), and I feel the most free when traveling -- free from mundanity & minute grievances of everyday life.
So, rather than immediately reentering normal life, I'm trying to digest Bhutan because travel births thought, as Alain De Botton eloquently describes in the Art of Travel:
"Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conductive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is before our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at times requiring large views, and new thoughts, new places. Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape."
