#open plain

You don’t actually realise exactly how big the sky is. I mean, you know it’s big because you learnt about it in school science and you see it everyday, but when you live in cities and suburbs you only see parts of it. You hardly look up at the sky because you think ‘What is there to look at?’ (despite checking the weather), you can’t see the skyline because it’s blocked by so many buildings and houses and telegraph poles and trees.

And then you’re sitting in the middle of a plain and you can see the skyline from one end to the other, and it really baffles you. It’s hard to grasp just how big the sky really is. It’s the same feeling you get when you’re on an airplane. You think that you’re so high already and you can’t possibly believe there’s any more room to go up and yet the plane continues to go up up up. 

Sitting in this plain in the countryside of Siem Reap, Cambodia and looking up and admiring the sky and sunset, I felt for the first time in my life that I could really breathe. I felt free’er than I ever felt before. I had no problems plaguing my mind. No stress about work, no fear for my future and deciding what I want to do for the rest of my life. I felt like I could stretch my arms and they would continue to stretch and expand forever. 

Unfortunately I couldn’t stay there forever, no matter how much I wanted to, and reluctantly traveled via ATV (Quad bike) back to the ATV company and then back to my hotel. Now that I’m back home in Australia, I feel really cooped up at the moment. I wish I could go back.