It may not be true for all travelers—as many with wanderlust find satisfaction filling up their atlases with red thumbtacks by their front door, always one foot headed in that direction— but for some there is a specific point on the map that tugs at their soul, until they are able to reach it. And once we do (I’ll now include myself in this projection), that destination isn’t merely checked off the list, but becomes built into our lives and perhaps one day, we find it to be home as much as anywhere else.
For me, this has always been India.
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