It's probably just adaptive to the species for some of us to be driven to set out on journeys to new places, and so we have it built into our emotions. The emo

It's probably just adaptive to the species for some of us to be driven to set out on journeys to new places, and so we have it built into our emotions. The emotion it conjures up is rather nice, kind of bitter sweet and expansive at the same time. It seems to stimulate the imagination to contemplate it even if you never actually go anywhere. “Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God