Traveling can’t solve your problems, but it can allow you to gain a different perspective. And at the end of the day, it is you who needs to take that final step towards a life that is full of happiness.

I find myself on a journey akin to a lotus emerging from the murky depths of nostalgia and familial ties. Leaving behind the comforting embrace of home, I tread a path strewn with marigold petals of acceptance and thorns of isolation, each step echoing the bittersweet melody of shared experiences.

In my eyes, this world is dazzling in a myriad more ways than its elemental makeup - although that, to the right person, could be considered dazzling too.