Hue was incredible. I’m both fully complete and a little lonely. Completely happy and a bit melancholy. I have never made a better decision than this solo trip. There are fields of rice and ponds of ducks. I find myself falling in love with everyone I meet and I think that’s beautiful. There are pieces of my heart all across the world now; my heart has a round-the-world ticket and I’m just coming along for the ride.
There is love everywhere around me, I think we watch the news and sometimes we forget. The old man lying in a hammock holding hands with his wife and just staring into each other. The grandmother who ran my hotel in Hue and her two daughters. The man swinging his hammer as he builds the railway track.
Every song about heartbreak is just a song about love. The world is beating with the pulse of every soul reaching out to each other. I’m in a bus built for 12 with 21 people in it, and another guy just got on next to me. It’s love that makes it all work, otherwise what’s the point? 🙂
Smile and the world smiles with you. There is no second half of that quote. I watch the road drift by as kids fly kites that look like giant octopuses in the sky.
