#travelbits

The ocean humbles, but the countryside reminds you that you have a place. That just like trees line fences and break up fields in their own special order, so too do you. The ocean takes the air out of your lungs for the magnitude, the strength in water—a substance on its own so unthreatening—but pushed and pulled by the force of currents and winds somehow becomes something altogether unfathomable. The countryside restores, it evens out the breathing in your chest and steadies the thrumming of your heartbeat. It’s all deep breaths and slow gazings, it’s watching your breath fog up the lens of your perspective and somehow putting all your thoughts back together with the way that it disintegrates. If people took their anger to the ocean and their fears to the countryside, maybe cities would be less full to the brim of people hiding inside themselves.