vinceconaway | Moving is living 2

"I keep myself on the road because that's where I feel most comfortably myself."

That's a telling quote that I nonchalantly tossed off in my previous post. And I escalated: the title of these two posts comes from Up in the Air:

"Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star-crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks."

It's a brutal read, the shark speech, stripped of the charisma of George Clooney's delivery, yet it sums up both my greatest triumphs and biggest regrets. But when I'm feeling down, there's nothing like looking at my upcoming travel plans to perk myself up. Before I swore off the possibility, it also acted as a defense mechanism because I would never attempt suicide while holding an unused plane ticket.

"I’ve driven across deserts driven by the irony,
That only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"

Frank Turner is another patron saint of mine, writing my life in music. And a comfort that I'm not the only one who feels this way (thanks a million