The Post-Travel Blues

by | Feb 25, 2009

Tara Joyce

Written by Tara Joyce

This is space to share my musings—unformed ideas, collections of words that catch my fancy, that sort of thing. I'm the author of Pay What It's Worth and the Cross My Heart series.

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I’ve been back from Nicaragua one week today. I didn’t want to come home.

I felt like a million dollars but since I have been back, I feel depressed.

I sleep too much. I can’t write. The scenery makes melancholy.

The city life, perhaps even living in Canada, I now understand, is not what I need.

Nature, simplicity, sun, this is what I desire.

I feel stuck. I can’t leave. At least not now.

In the meantime, I need to find my joy once again. I need to escape from my post-travel blues. The haze I am in, it is blocking out Toronto’s beauty.

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