Running away or toward something?

Dear anonymous,

Running more than one blog allows me to blog about different things and thus my tumblr is basically photos that reflect my feelings as opposed to words. I came across one bit of typography that said "I want to stop running away from everything. I want to find something to run toward." Naturally I reblogged it because it made me think.

On my WordPress, I've talked about wanderlust and my love for travel. People say that you find yourself when you travel and though I still believe in this notion, I also believe that it's a way to escape. The only difference is that I used to think that it meant escaping not only my friends and my family but also myself.

As you know by now if you're following my journey on here, I'm not that big of a fan of myself. There are numerous reasons as to why but we won't delve into that too deeply right now. I've discovered however that I no longer travel to escape myself but rather to escape aspects of my life. I seek new places with new faces and new cultures. I seek adventure and thrill and inspiration and love. In all this seeking, I find out a little bit more about myself that I come to love.

I'm still not perfect. I don't like everything about myself but there are aspects that I do like. One of them being that I have a passion for travel and self discovery and that through travel I can discover more about myself. So I guess to answer the question, I'm not running away, I'm running toward. The thing I found that I'm running toward? A love for myself.

Love,
Michelle