A friend recently asked me if I consider myself to be an optimist, pessimist or realist. For me the answer has always been a realist, the glass is neither half empty nor half full, it's just a glass. Recently, though, I began to realize that the last few years of travel have changed me. More and more I'm becoming the type of person that looks for the silver lining in things, trusting that everything will work itself out in the end. Travel does that to a person, it changes you, causing you to see the world in a different light, but why? There's a myriad of reasons that could answer this question, but I think the driving force for me has been the people I've met along the way. Over the years and across the countries it's the people I've met that have brought to life the, "Everything happens for a reason" motif. Due to scheduling conflicts and time constraints I was afraid I was going to miss a re-connection with one of these people, but thanks to a shift in plans and a 13+ hour bus journey we made it happen.
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