A wandering I Go

"Next to resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneurs worst enemy.  Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego.  Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious.

A child has no trouble believing, nor does the genius or the madman.  It's only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and over think and hesitate."  Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

For quite some time now I have had an acute case of wanderlust.  I read this quote on the net and the symptoms worsened - a desire to buy a GPS, read all the travel magazines, get out my Atlas and work up a route around the United States. 

As usual I got realistic again.  Dang it!  Why did my father have to pound that word "responsibility" into my head so hard?  Getting "real" often means putting your dreams on hold.  But why now that I am single and unemployed?  All the reasons are echoing in my head - a woman alone, what if the car broke down, you got lost (as you have a habit of doing), you don't have the money to squander, and of course the number one reason WHY, WHAT IS OUT THERE TO SEE?  I was talking to a friend about my desire to go on a road trip following the Mississppi River to the Gulf of Mexico, stopping at the little towns along the way.  That was what he said.  "Why, what is out there to see?"  That's what I want to know.  I want to see how people live in these quaint little river towns that have been there since the early American explorers trapped beaver along the river.  I want to talk with them and hear stories about their dreams.

This is one dream that has been dancing around in my head like sugar plums for years.  I don't think I can resist much longer.  The temptation to run away without telling a soul is so strong I can taste it and it tastes like sweet chocolate, like the flight of the eagle, like sweet freedom.  I realize I have obligations to fulfill but when that is done I will have a plan and will fly by night when no one is watching.  Perhaps I'll start heading south to visit friends I haven't seen in years or perhaps I'll head east.  I have seen some of the west, but have never had the opportunity to visit the east.  I am so excited about my plan that I feel like a giddy school girl with her first love.

A wandering I go, a wandering I go, Hi Ho a darry O a wandering I go!