Playing Tourist

PLAYING TOURIST, 24X24

When I was getting married, several of my friends and coworkers had already gotten married. I found myself on the receiving end of a loooooooot of advice. Some of it was incredibly helpful. But there was a point where I felt strongly that I wanted to have my own wedding experience, even if that included making my own mistakes or doing things at my wedding that other people hated at theirs. It became a joke, “It’s my wedding, I’ll do what I want!” Sometimes trips feel the same way where everyone has opinions and advice about how your trip should go. I’m grateful for some of it. But I also want the experience of having my own trip and doing the things that are exciting to me and making it mine. Some of the best moments on trips are the adventures of accidents! If it’s my first time somewhere, then I definitely am going to do all the cliche touristy things I want to do. Because no matter how many people have stood on the Eiffel Tour before, no one can do it for me, stand in my place with my own two feet. No one can replicate the experience of walking out of the Tube station on my first day in London and the very first thing we see is the golden majesty of Big Ben gleaming right in front of us for my own two eyes to behold. No one can experience how it feels to ride on the top deck of the red double decker tour bus with us and not be prepared for how windy it was and laughing so hard we couldn’t even talk as we’re careening up and down the streets seeing the whole city. No one can sit in Central Park listening to a saxophone player with my ears and relish the cacophony of sounds that the New York soundtrack is. It’s my turn and I will live up every minute of the joy of being a tourist. No one can see the world through my senses exactly like I can.

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