A pilgramage is ones journey to their spiritual center. It involeves taking the long path there and letting the road change and humble you along the way. The trip its self is supposed to spirtually and emotionaly prepare you for meeting your most sacred destination.
Our pilgrimage will involve traveling to the destination at the center of the universe that is in every persons heart. That center is perfectly interconnected with every raindrop, blade of grass and graffite taged sidewalk, and bumbling college student on this planet- including you.
While we are studying abroad in order to travel, have fun, meet amazing people, experience crazy adventures and stumble through the akwardness of a foregin langage, we are also going in order to push ourselves and see what we are capable of- not for personal gain or goals but to better understand all people and see what humanity is capable of.
This blog is called Three Pilgrams becuase as we each delve deeper into our own journey we will find that our pilgrimage is to the center of our true selves. In time we will find that our "true selves" will look nothing like the personalities or persona's we have spent years constructing, reinforcing and believing and a lot more like the faces of people walking down the street.
Our planes leave soon, our nerves are wracked but we're stoked and we hope you are too. Thank you to everyone who has loved, supported and helped us along the way and also thank you to everyone who also kicked our butts when we needed it.
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned in order to have the life that is waiting us us."
- E.M. Forester
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