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Amazing. It's an experience not many get to have, so I'm really looking forward to the coming essays and reflections.

My fav part is the dichotomy of what you yearn/ed for. A year ago it was a nomadic journey, and now it's a place to lay down roots again. Or to re-root yourself whence you left.

I know myself to simultaneously long for travel, to be alone, unknown in some foreign distant land, looking at a river under a bridge and at the stars, and also be at home in the warmth of my family, to find a special someone to call home, to stoke fires and make memories with them all.

And I think these are cycles of life. We must understand that we are transitionary beings at heart. Sometimes here, sometimes there, and at both times being happy with where we are and wishing to be somewhere else. I indulged my want to be unknown by sitting on an empty bench late at night on campus with the early winter winds blowing. It felt...scary, admittedly. I was weary of my surroundings. But it felt good. I looked up at God, through the sky. Then I went back inside where there was light and warmth, and then soon after back home where there was family.

Alhamdulillah. I am greatly blessed.

Thanks for sharing some photos! I plan on sharing more of my photos too from daily captures and from past travels.

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Feel so blessed as well Alhamdulillah. 🙏🏽 And grateful for this comment. I do think that these are the cycles of life, transitioning between seasons -- and each of those moments we force ourselves to sit uncomfortably in the winds as we look to our Creator is one to be treasured.

Excited to see your photos!!

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This photo journal gives me an unexpected feeling of hope; To know my immediate surrounding is just a slice of reality, to remember the world is beautiful and worth exploring. I’ll come back to this one for inspiration.

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Same here Kaamil, I keep coming back to this one too!

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Thanks for sharing this and taking us along on the journey. I'll be borrowing the phrase, "Living my life in such an illegible way..."

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Yes feel free! It definitely captures a particular combination of emotions

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Wow this is so inspiring and beautifully written. I am doing my own sabbatical from Jan-June next year in Asia and you've been to a lot of places I want to go! Will need to reread when I start. Would love to read more about your realizations on your sabbatical.

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Hey India -- oooh very excited to hear about your journey!!

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Saalik! What an amazing chapter of your life, more great chapters ahead iA!!

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Thank you Sadia! Praying for great chapters indeed. 🤲🏽

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For a visual person like me, it was a welcome change after reading so many words of fellow Write of Passage members. Hello from Solarpunk Singapore.

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Glad you enjoyed it! Maybe we'll meet up next time I'm in town 😁

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What a lifetime experience!

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Amazing journal, what an adventure!

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Thanks Chris! Hope everything is great!

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