Soul Searching

First time, I braced up myself to travel alone to another neighbour state in New York. Protocol had her vacation in Carribean, I was all alone. One of my friends invited me over for the weekend (24th-25th March, 2007) in Connecticut. Without considering too much, I packed my backpack and hit on the road.

I wasn't sure of the exact way to get there. I checked online, figured out a vague way to get there. I had prepared to get lost or pay much more money for that trip. Well, I wanted to take risk, experiencing a different type of traveling. I had to change the trains, called taxi and then swicthed the ferry. I had no clue at first. Well, I used to believe that 'road grows from your mouth'. As long as you dare to take risk and ask the people around, you will be fine. Uh huh! That's Chia's first lonely trip. Sometimes, I wish I am not a risk taker. It hurts you when you are not aware, seriously.

After reaching the final train station in Greenport, I couldn't get a shutter bus. I asked aorund but majority of the citizens there claimed that the buses only come once in a hour or so, which is totally different from what I read online. I didn't give up, I walked around, asked those boatmen at the port. They gave directions, I walked for miles again, but still, ain't nothing.

I had to take the shuttle bus to Orient Point and then take another ferry to New England Port in Connecticut. I wasn't afraid even though I had no clue of what to do next, just very tired of the exhauting journey. Then, out of the blue, a sentence crossed my mind, 'Live at the present, don't worry too much and enjoy every moments you have...' That's Protocol's favourite quote. Hmmm.. She makes sense sometimes. So, what I did was, I strolled along the port, snapping pictures of the amazing landscapes and scenery. I walked around the town and captured the beautiful pictures of the street. Wow! Magically, I wasn't tired anymore. I allowed the cold wind caressed my face, inhaling fresh air while admiring the wonder of mother nature. After an hour, my mind's cleared. I got a number from a local minimarket and then called myself a taxi. The driver arrived after half an hour and drove me to Orient Point.

Finally, I got my ferry at 2pm and heading off to New England, reached there around 4pm.

I didn't really have chance to visit alot of places, though, the journey inspired me in someways. Live up life to the fullest. When you get lost, don't worry too much, spend sometimes to smell the flowers, you will discover a brand new experience. Too many times in life, we worry too much and then ended up gaining nothing cause we didn't have guts to start on anything.

Once you have made up your mind to take risk or involve in some kind of adventure, be mature enough to bear the consequences. Nobody's can be there to help you up once you have made up your mind as you are an adult now. Be responsible, no rooms for regrets. It's useless to cry over spilt milk. It's in vain to blame anyone else for your own terrible mistakes. You asked for it and you deserved that. Curiosity kills a cat. People who had adventure in some desserted forests always got lost and never got home.

Tell youself, NO big deal. really, no big deal. You will be all right. See, the sky is so sparse and free, the sea is so deep and blue. Birds chirping on the trees and fishes swimming near the surface of water, welcoming the present of the Spring.

There are hopes. Gotta hang on and get over it. Sometimes in life, you just have to pay a lot to learn a lesson.

Touche?! hmmm...