Wednesday, Shawwal 20th, 1436H, 43cْ
Almost all the people I'm associated to have packed their luggage and hit the road in search for a cozy place where they can spend summer away from the scorching heat of the Arabian sun.
Almost all the people I'm associated to have packed their luggage and hit the road in search for a cozy place where they can spend summer away from the scorching heat of the Arabian sun.
Despite all the reasoning they furnish me with every time I ask them about their eagerness to travel and spend tens of thousands of dollars, in the best case scenario, on trivial matters they deem them necessary, I end up hearing the same thing all over again. Some travel for a change, others travel to show off, those travel to seek out an adventure and all of them return back with high morale that depletes as soon as they resume their duties. If I knew that travelling, as conceptualized in modern times, would give me a jolt of positive morale that would last me for the whole year until another summer vacation comes, I would've been the one leading the pack. But the current trend of utilizing the ample time of summer by travelling to resorts that have been already visited for more than 11 times nonstop, are you listening?!!!!!...., speaks of something eerily stupid with the people involved in it.
Travelling is a good thing so long as it changes one from the inside out, instead of from the outside in. If you are going to travel to simply enjoy a short term of soul- replenishment, believe me, soul- replenishment emanates from within. I mean, your town is more than enough a place to make you experience something exhilarating and superbly funny, but the problem seems within you. You have accustomed your mind to the quasi- fact that if you don't travel and spend a year- worth of income on junk and funk, all what you have done so far is pointless, right?
And then, after all is said and done, you keep watching the setting sun of the last day of summer with sorrowful eyes and say:
Only a week or two left of this vacation. Try to make the next one, if Allah extends our lives until then, a far more worthwhile experience, and not a tedious cycle.
Salams,
Alawi :)
