a look back is a blind future?

today my dog died.


...And while I know that hasn't much to do with me traveling right now; it has a lot to do with what one leaves behind when they leave their families for extended periods of time. It has much to do with the risk that while traveling something will happen to someone or something they care about.

Are tough lessons, personal struggle and frightening realities worth that risk?

It depends on what kind of person you are.

I guess you have to be careful about looking back before you've even left; and, once you've left and are starting you're adventures- looking back is likely to obscure the opportunity before you.

I'm going to enjoy being gone by acknowledging that 3 or 4 months is a blink of the eye- a moment... and, I will appreciate being back because- despite my fleeting moment of absence, I'll have missed something... no import in how minute or monumental that something might be; I'll still have missed it, no matter when I come back.


today my dog died... and i was here for it.