A fundamental skill on a journey like the one I’m on here in South America, is mastering the art of leaving (which is very similar to the Buddhist art of letting go). When on the road, you continuously have to say goodbye to friends and places which you might never return to see again, no matter how much you’d want to. Of course, on a self proclaimed journey, no one’s really forcing you to move on, but if that’s what you really want deep inside, then you just have to be able to let go.
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