Nomad and lands of unknown!

Whatever we become or wherever we go, they say, the inner self remains unchanged. So then, it must be true why I'm such a nomad at heart! 

Every life style has its pros and cons and if it has none then it's an immobile one, definitely not worth living. Often it happens that once we grow our roots in someplace, we fall in to the comfort zone and get complacent. The older the roots, the harder it becomes to uproot oneself and get a new life. Moreover, we might even feel who needs a new life? Surprisingly, I do, more often than not!

At the risk of being called a careless person, I want to say one thing. Nomadic life has more to offer than one realizes it. We learn from life better than what we learn in schools. It's the cooler version of Educomp and yet more efficient. People often talk about alternate schooling or under-the-tree-classroom-learning and the likes. But the thing is, I'm less concerned about schooling or its alternatives and more inclined towards empowering my family and myself with life skills. What do you call it? Unschooling? No. Living? May be! 

 When you are a teenager or even when you are in 20s, you think you are adventurous. There's certain itching in the gray matters to try out something new but it's limited to strokes of adolescence until one day when we all give up and settle down. Nomadic way of life is way different than the experiments we try out when we are young, in a limited laboratory called one life. That's not what I'm talking about. Smoking, drinking or orientations do not define nomadic life, it's more to do with hippies' lifestyle. Nomads, on the other hand, are survivors. They have known better things, have seen more places, much wiser than any of us who have never attempted anything revolutionary in life. 

I want to experience how it feels when you look into the eyes of a stranger and smile, without alarming the other person and at the same time, not feeling insecure myself either. What do we all wait for to start anew? When is the perfect time to start afresh? I don't think there's any particular time or thing that we need to wait for. Why not start, like right now? Blow the conch for a new beginning, pack all your bags, leave everything and everyone ever known to you, far behind? My heart has been aching for a journey like that. Walk into the lands of unknown, drop your guards, unlearn what life taught you so far and make room for new ones. Wouldn't it be wonderful? 

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

It gives me goose flesh just to think of the stories that might unfold before me or the possibility of many stories that I might become. I'm quite a story teller, not because I write. Because I do tell, to myself most of the times. It's such an enthralling experience that just the anticipation itself gives me a head rush, in a good way. For your entire life you are told to hang on to the old friends or some family because they say that's the right way. The life is always defined and categorized into right or wrong. And then, you get to be a nomad. You get the opportunity to doubt whether there's a right way to live your life? And that's the opportunity I have been looking for. 

Be a nomad, be a no one, be whoever you want to be and then tell the stories!