i miss the feeling of being inside an airport. i have traveled more than some of my friends but i am still so envious of all my other friends that take the initiative, spontaneous or not and travel to multiple destinations every year. i wish i was organized enough, rich enough, had enough time etc to do that, too. i don't know what it is about airports, but it never really matters where i'm headed. airports are one of my favorite places. departures and arrivals are a huge part of the excitement when it comes to travelling. maybe its the anticipation. maybe it's the anxiety. the foreign places. all the colorful people, luggage and languages you see swirling all around you. everyone is going somewhere, whether it is home, on vacation, on a business trip, to visit loved ones, moving across the country. it's always somewhere.
whenever i'm at an airport, i always feel like i'm on the cusp of something exciting. and its standing on the cusp that makes it that much more thrilling. even returning to somewhere you've been, there's still that ominous feeling that you can't possibly expect what you are going to be greeted with. really, who'd think that airports could be so thought provoking.
it always reminds me of the quote by kurt vonnegut "i want to stand as close to the edge as i can without going over. out on the edge you can see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
[to be continued/revised] (first post in a looong time..)
