"Leavings"

I really liked a post I read from an article on The Rabbit Room site today. Well, to be perfectly honest I really like basically everything that has to do with that particular blog/book club/music store/source of creative inspiration (I'm not really sure what to call it because it's way too cool for one label), but this particular post was in the form of a short comic by Jonny Jimison (the link for which is here).

One of the lines in it left me thinking for several minutes after I read it. (I love it when words make me do that.)

"I never leave anywhere without going somewhere else."

~Jonny Jimison 

This struck a chord for me quite easily because I can so quickly get caught up in the fact that I keep leaving things. As I've said before, I love being a wanderer. I like a change of scenery, a new backdrop, a different window view. There's beaches to explore, coffee shops the try, and used bookstores to discover and get lost in for hours. There's places to go, and sights to see, people to meet, and lessons to learn. And I am convinced that requires getting up and moving. Not necessarily far. But at least something new to change it up a bit every now and then.

If I'm not careful though, I tend to forget all that. I can focus on what I'm leaving behind too much instead of where I'm actually going. It can make me question why I left, making me not appreciate the new.

The road is a teacher. And as much as I’d like to think I know a thing or two about its ways I probably don’t. I do know however that it loves the unexpected. It can take me somewhere else and show me a different way things could be that I never could have realized. Or I could worry I was walking on a one-way street further and further from what I should have been running back to, when all the while the road was bringing me back home full circle anyway and I hadn’t even known it. Or maybe it’s both.

Either way, you learn more than you would if you had stayed put.
I definitely have.