A Switch Has Been Flipped

by :: Anamaria

I’m feeling a sudden sense of urgency. About visiting Romania.

Nothing unusual about that, since it’s been 3 years. What’s unusual is how this feeling came about.

It just struck! Like thunder! Out of the blue!

It’s not something I felt growing, and growing, and growing for months, or longer. No. I just woke up one morning thinking I have to go back to Romania! Just like that. It’s like somebody flipped a switch and turned on this urgency to go back.

And I thought: how strange that the desire to travel somewhere would happen like that, just all of a sudden. People usually spend years dreaming about visiting one place or another, don’t they? We don’t just wake up one morning thinking: I want to go there! Or do we?

Maybe we do, but only when it comes to places that we’ve already visited. If it’s a new place, I think we tend to spend more time thinking about it, planning the visit or simply dreaming about the visit.

I mentioned this to Cate one morning, and she just about jumped out of her seat. She said

I had the same thing happen to me about going back to Germany! A few months ago I woke up with this overwhelming desire to visit Germany again, and soon.

If you know Cate, you know that she thinks about Germany quite a bit. It’s not like she has forgotten about Germany and then one day somebody or something reminded her of it. Germany is always on her mind. But, interestingly, the desire to go back and visit the country was dormant (she hasn’t been there for 5 years)…until one day when it came alive for her. Very strongly and suddently. Same with me and Romania.

Has this happened to you? Have you ever felt this sudden out-of-the-blue desire to return to a place that you already visited?

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