Monday, 7 November 2011

The Power of Suggestion

It's strange how one person's simple comment can inspire so much in a person. One simple quote from my day today inspired me to make this post, and the logic behind it is so complex and yet simultaneously simple. It made me think. That one thing that was aid made me stop and think, and now I'm thinking and I can't stop thinking about so many different aspects of it and what inspired me to think about it so much.

Suggestion is brilliant. Before today, I had never considered travel in the way it was suggested to me this evening. It was said in such a jokey way, a way that I'm unsure of the intentions behind it other than to entertain or be ironically jokey whilst still giving sound advice, but those words were "run. Run while you can." Out of context, I'll admit it sounds rather creepy, but in the context of leaving home and living far away, it struck a chord with me. I can't even begin to explain the path of the conversation that led to this topic, and I'm unwilling to share with friends, never mind online, the details of even the few sentences before that quote, for fear of spreading details about that person that they would not otherwise share, but it made me think. Maybe it was part of what I'd just been listening to that stuck in the forefront of my mind, but now I can't stop considering the idea of moving away from my family. I could do it easily and I know that I could manage the separation with hardly any difficulty, after all, we all have a natural instinct to fly the nest, and yet that desire to stick within our comfort zone is often what holds people back, and it's in breaking that barrier that we enable ourselves to truly be free. However, even what we call complete freedom is never 100% free. We all have boundaries, whether they were set in place by our families, our culture, our government or our own personal fears and restrictions, and it is that prospect that makes me consider whether it would be worth it to move away. Moving away from home can't change who you are. It can change almost anything about you, from your phone number to your appearance and the way your life plays out, but it can't change who you are on the inside, not really. No matter what, you'll always have memories of where you've been and the people you've met, the things you've seen and the people who influenced you, the things that make you who you are. So yes, if you move away, you'll meet more people, your life will be different, and you may turn out with a different view on life, but at the end of it all, you really need to ask yourself where home was in the first place.

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