Word of the Week #180:

Peregrinate

The more I travel, I realise one simple thing: I don’t like travelling. 

I mean, I like being someplace nice, but I do not enjoy the act of getting there.

That is what ‘I like travelling’ should mean, right? That you enjoy the journey, not just the destination? Well, turns out, I don’t really like the journey.

Huh… I’m disappointed in myself.

Then again, I have my books.

“My grandfather says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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