Travel Ferry

|| hodophile || xxii || dreamer ||

[travelferry]

“Life won’t take you to the places you want to go to, it will take you to the places you are meant to go to.” 🌃

“Maktub,” (meaning: it is written) I was introduced to this beautiful Arabic word in the book “The Alchemist,” and ever since then this word has helped me make sense of so many things that happened to me in the past. Coincidentally, from where I come from (Punjab, India), it is commonly said in the native language that everything is already predetermined, even something as trivial as consumption of a single food grain. And they are not wrong, our life as we know it, exists as such, because of endless number of factors that came into being before us and shaped our lives before we were even born. ✨✨

[travelferry]

🥀After all this time, this is what I have learnt:

Life is much shorter than how we perceive it. One minute you are starting your day, and the other minute you cannot wait for it to end so that you can hit the bed and finally get some rest. Sure, there are days when time passes “slowly” but I have learned to be glad for days where I can slow down, pause, reset and recharge for whatever is in store for me next.

I’ve finally realised that life is not perhaps, about appreciating small moments, it’s about realising that all there is are small moments and it is only our mindset defining a moment as small or big or good or bad.

[cansu-m]

[kidneybf-deactivated20220519]

"A temple in Srinagar razed to ruins, only pillars stand like his pale face, in my memory. I must come back to the autumn trees, to write on chinars our forgotten history; on the graves of my friends, whose coffins I shouldered. I just return to write poetry."

- Aamir Wani

[travelferry]

Farsi Couplet:

Agar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,

Hameen ast-o hameen ast-o hameen ast.

Translation: If there is a paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this

These are the words of Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau, better known as Amīr Khusrau, describing the surreal beauty of Kashmir.

The lush green sceneries of Kashmir can leave anyone dumbfounded. You almost feel your eyes are betraying you, because it’s uncanny how anything could be so calmingly beautiful. Kashmir - a painter’s muse, a poet’s aesthetic, a traveller’s hiraeth and an onlooker’s amazement.

[travelferry]

“Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?” Julie Deply’s chararcter in Before Sunrise asks Ethan Hawke’s, as the two continue walking down the streets of Vienna, conversing about love, time and self-discovery.

[ashhinmess]

That's the thing what I want... I want to be alone there, I don't want anybody near me. Just want to lay down on sea side sand and continuously watching the waves, I want to feel like waves, enjoy the wind and the sound of waves. I want to hear the sound of wind blows that go through my ears. I want a little movement with my own-self, without any tension. Just want to be real of me... The original one, a man, who cares for own sometimes, who is innocent, who is polite, who is sweet.

[o-agapimenos-sas-chaotikos-deac]

And it burned just like an ember, shining all the way to heaven.

[travelferry]

Oh my god this is so so so beautiful 🥺

[1st-1]

[its-gonna-be-okay123okay]

I aspire to be the sky.

Dramatic, stormy, peaceful, beautiful, clear, peaceful.

[travelferry]

Sky mood-board. 🤍🧡🤍🤍🧡🤎🤎🧡🤎

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

[octoberis4loverz]

This!

[thedreamerquotes]

I stood on that hill while the sky above me threatened to collapse. I stood there and knew that I was alive. After all, I felt something inside me.

[travelferry]

Restless, frantic and anxiety-ridden, we stay up all night in our small rooms, confined in small cities.

But when we are among mighty mountains, we get up from our beds and look out of our windows...our anxiety fades away and we feel calm...you know why...?

Because we immediately see beauty in all its glory.

We look at how these mountains have always been around. So many people before us, might have stared at them the same way in a similar distressed state, but ended up finding peace. You feel synchronised with the cycle of life. You fall in love with nature itself and how it gave birth to both the mountains and you.

You feel one with the earth. You know you belong somewhere. You feel alive. This earth is your home and your soul belongs to it as much as the mountains do.

[travelferry]

“One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.” ✨

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[passport-life]

“Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”

— Stephen Covey

[jasmincampos]

🙏🏼✈️

[tltravel]

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

— Ibn Battuta

[travelferry]