I need to travel. And if i can't physically take a trip, then i am finding other ways to wander.
Bruce Chatwin refers in his book, Songlines, to his own insatiable need to wander to far off places and puts forth the idea that human beings seem to be most content when we are able to travel to new places. He goes so far as to suggest, based on anthropological research, that man actually evolved into the human species because of our nomadic instincts - which allowed us to survive and put us into regions where our brains and bodies evolved, and that perhaps this is so deeply rooted in our instincts that if we don't allow ourselves to wander, we will never feel a sense of peace - even in our pinkest, least hirsuit, flabbiest of box bound forms. That in fact, the curse of boredom will never leave us unless we allow ourselves to heed our wanderlust.

If I could wander forever I would. I suppose that's why I write songs and sing - they keep me in a traveling state of mind.

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