Letter to travellers-to-be.

To my best friend, we’ve shared a lot. Heartache, head-fucks and helplessness. We’ve encountered things that others don’t get to see in this lifetime, but we came out the other side. Here’s to your new adventure. 

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Nobody but ourselves can fix the complications we encounter. Spend life running away from trouble only to seek another misdemeanour. Self sabotage is a fine thing when there is no escaping the irresistible urge to implode just so you can fix it all over again. What is this cycle of hoping for better days? It does wonders for aspirations but nothing for our sense of value.

Stability does no favours for the need to adventure. Regular paycheques don’t satisfy the thrill of moving country to country with nothing but your mind and body. The rest of it is all frivolous. Give to the world, give it your body. Take the world, take everybody who offers. One moment at a time, no need to compare one to the next. Bring nothing of real and genuine value, except yourself, because you’re going to need all the room you can get in that delicate mind to soak up every ounce of what is about to come your way.

This journey is sensual. Awaken your senses because that’s how memories formate. Let the water chill you, let the sand burn you. The rawness will restore you. Don’t urge to shrug back into comfortability because the elements accept you for your rights and wrongs like nobody else will. Best of all they know how to keep secrets. Play however you wish then rinse your sins into the ocean with everybody else’s. After all, what are desires if you can’t indulge them? Let the sweat carry away your troubles because that is no longer your responsibility. The sun, the wind, the rain will cleanse you, I promise. 

Give in to temptation. Let people in. Habits dictate we don’t give ourselves freely but you deserve to be heard. Love familiar strangers along the way, claw your guard down because whatever society taught you here, it just doesn’t apply anymore. They might only cross your path once, don’t let them go. When you fall in love instantaneously with a new friend, you’ll know what I mean. This isn’t love as a bullshit boy meets girl scenario. I’m talking about downright tangible affinity for romance in friendship. One you can feel and breathe and share in the air of that moment. A night or a lifetime, don’t doubt yourself when you part ways. Literally nothing can break the indescribable sensation of needing this stranger right there and then.

Listen to strangers, you’d be surprised how much they will divulge. The sounds of their longing and the pitch of their secrets may change you or numb you. Absorb their hardship so you can absolve them. You have the power to change lives. Never underestimate that. Touch, kiss, hold. Everybody is family when you’re on the run from a life that no longer fits you. You get pushed out of society because you grow, but all of a sudden, in the smallest of moments you realise you’ve let go. You’re being pulled by the world. Every inch of it is yours, and everybody else’s. It’s the most intimate feeling to know you share this earth. Laze on the hammock, climb through the jungle, sail the ocean. All these places are havens for lightening bolt moments, and finally it makes sense. There is no sense. We are all vulnerable, we are all indescribably breakable so use this because I promise, taking this journey is only going to make you invincible.