The Itch
Recently I’ve been thinking about this Anthony Bourdain quote: “ If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” I happen to be a twenty-two year old that thinks he's physically fit and is hungry to learn, weirdly enough. I remember during undergrad feeling this sense of entrapment in school – and just about every spring I would get the itch. The itch is the phenomenon that has overtaken many of us at one point or another. You think “Wow, I could just buy a plane ticket and move away. I could drop everything and escape.” the realization triggers the itch – a spreading, worsening desire to leave commitments and travel. Some give into the itch and move, but I never had the guts to fully commit (plus I wanted to go to med school, lest we forget). I’ve graduated now though, and with what seems...