I never expected to find....

by Noluvuyo Mahlanyana (South Africa)

I didn't expect to find South Africa

Topic"I did not expect to find.... Travelling is important, it sparkles adventure of life time and sentiments you never thought you had in you. I grew up in a smaal Town in the Vaal in South Africa, like many of average young people, I could not travel, let alone thinking of living my city. I always loved Johannesburg, the city of Gold, but in my early teenage years I have never thought I'd could be so close to it, I got really amazed when one of my high school mates told me that it was just an hour away from my home town, (Really) that was me gazing at my peer and starting to imagine how will It get there but fortunately my father found a new house there then i could start visiting. I remember vividly the first day I visited alone and my first steps in Johannesburg as a teenage girl. The fresh breeze that I felt, the convulsions, the beautiful happy people, I never expected to find that. Perhaps this is the life that has been calling me, all my teenage years I had a yearning, a yearning to see how others live and if possible touch their hearts with my beautiful blissful smile. If I had known that the life I have always been searching for was right infront of me waiting for me to manifest into a blissful young lady that I have become. Travelling made me realize that apart from living to make my grandparents proud I had something way more than that, compassion for a fellow human, love, respect and humanity, I truly never expected to find such a phenomenal young woman in me when all my life What I knew was church, home and school I saw above that the Glory in travelling and seeing how others live. Waking up everyday to the city and the life I dreamt of was amusing, I could not wait to get up each morning to see how the world is outside, the feeling of finally being where you always wanted to be, all thanks to travel. I never expected to find such spiritual awakening, growth and an expanded mind set, so much inner peace to know that you have seen what you always wanted to see. I wish to go out on the outside world and see more, embrace it's people and other God 's creation, finally I found my missing inner man, that's what she wanted me to do and go see and I never expected to find her. The world is ours, the world is mine it belongs to all of us it is patiently waiting for us to manifest and come embrace it perhaps you could also find what I have found. I never expected to find such security in the outside world apart from my own, I never expected to find so much embracing from the world and the city of Johannesburg itself, it had its own good and bad places like any other place in the world but that's another story to tell, but I'm only telling my experience and how it felt like so that people all over the world wake up and realize the potential travelling the world has to liberate them from depression and anxiety. We are here now, let us go and see, let us go and embrace God s creation and just maybe we can all find what we have been looking for and feed that inner man and all his yearning , that man inside us is God and he wants us to go and find him through seeing his creation through traveling, I never expected to find him but I did. In closing........ Do. not wait until the last moments where you will be wallowing into depression to find what you never expected to find, go out there as I and find that man, I never expected to find the greatest joy and I guess that's what made my experience to be even more sweeter . I hope we will all one day find the joy of traveling that is waiting for us, as I have said we are here let us all go . Thank-you.....