Walking inside, you feel it. Whether it's your own childlike wonder and excited anticipation (or reflective bliss and soulful fulfillment after) or someone else's, you can feel the palpable energy of an airport almost immediately.
Each airport's soul is uniquely characterized by the people walking to and from the departure gates with clouds of excitement pooling in wandering eyes. Whether it's the anticipation of an impending adventure or the reflection of a most recent journey, experiences roll off travelers like a scent and absorb into the structure. Eventually, the airport wears a permanent perfume of wanderlust.
Years of soulful experiences from unnamed travelers curate a soul charged with such curiosity and wonder, deep-rooted excitement with a touch of nerves. In the same breath that she boards the plane for three months of golden Firenze sunsets and morning tolls from the Duomo, he returns from a week of skiing and drinking with longtime best friends in Utah. It's every moment of wonder and excited anticipation, but also every moment of reflective bliss and soulful fulfillment.
It's the nights with people you love in places you've never been, but also the long days in a foreign land that forced you to grow as a person. It's the carefully planned itinerary with bucket-list activities with money you've saved for years, but also last minute "fuck it" trips that brought you memories you could never put a price tag on. It's staying in 5 star penthouse hotels in Beijing and youth hostels in the heart of Barcelona; climbing 18 miles to the Colorado river and back at the Grand Canyon and getting a helicopter tour from rim to rim; it's about all the endless possibilities and that taught me a lot about myself moments.
Too often we minimize the journey as part of the trip itself. In our pursuit of getting there already, travel is often considered as the burdening yet necessary part of the trip. Airports, fragrant with every moment of wonder and excited anticipation, but also every moment of reflective bliss and soulful fulfillment, are the best scent for those who keep their nose open.
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