Yesterday, while touring Trekearth, I found this picture. It's not the most beautiful beach in Mauritius. It's a little wet road in the middle of a sugarcane field. Just seeing it is like being punched in the stomach, swiftly, so that you suddenly can't breathe.
There's no effort: my mind immediately travels through the fields over the mountain across the green all the way to the sea. Seeing Mar Adentro didn't help actually, because he uses the same technique to visualise what he cannot reach.
How can a little island in the middle of an ocean exert such a huge power on a person's heart? There are so many of us scattered everywhere and we all have reasons for our choices. Still we yearn.
Homesickness is one of the most powerful human emotions, and one of the most helpless ones too.
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3 comments:
It's a beautiful sunset! So typical in summertime.
I understand how powerful that picture can be when u'r away from home. It's so Mauritius - a small country road between the sugarcane fields, sloping to a small forest, the mountain range and to the left, you can still make out the sea and the horizon!
beautiful pic.
for some reason, i almost never feel homesick. whenever i do sentimentally recall my birthplace, i mostly think of people and events, not the geographical location itself. but then again, i didn't grow up on the beautiful beaches...
vlad.
See, it's not even the beaches...The sea, yes, but mostly, it's an irrational pull. Maybe it's just the people, whom I will forever associate with this place. And maybe it's my heart's eyes. I don't know.
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