Going

A plane can take you to the ends of the world, you can visit faraway places that some people can only dream about and it can also move you further away from what you know, who you know... it can sometimes make you keep going.

When you book a ticket to go on any journey, you usually will get a return, a ticket to confirm at some point you will be going back. These are usually holidays, a chance to escape the life that you've chosen to live and a thing that many people live out their year looking forward too, that one chance of a break. Occasionally the journeys are more than holidays, sometimes they are bigger than that and sometimes they don't have return tickets booked.

It's a funny thing to hear people craving holidays, some feel they 'need' them, some 'want' them and some just go on them because they can. Everybody wants to be going somewhere; even the people who love their jobs and lives... we all need that break.

It's a real leap of faith to go into the unknown, to quit your current life, up and take off. It's not always because you need a holiday, it's more a feeling inside that you can't shake, a chance to go re-charge and finally stop dreaming. The Wright Brothers followed their dream and created the aeroplane so people could see the world, not dream about seeing it.

Travelling is more of a personnel thing than I think we realise. It is great to share it, but the experience itself is something that only you will truly be able to remember. The more you move away, the further into the trip you go, the more you look back, the more you think about what is left behind and the person you are.

A plane can take you near enough anywhere these days, you can visit those places you've thought about forever and even chose to live in them. But the best bit about those travels is the knowledge that you can go back. We all need to go on journeys, short or long; they're part of discovering who we are and refreshing ourselves.

Everybody should be going somewhere... even if it's just back home.