No Permanent Address

There's no such thing as permanency - not in this planet earth - for even climate changes or flowers fade away. Blame it on these words: temporary or for a while or at the moment or for now - they bring us to reality without a doubt, welcoming everyone to the real world.

Passerby is my choice of word - this describes best my journey as a temporary resident wherever destiny leads me. After all, I've been wandering around my whole life.

If you've tried your luck for a scholarship, you are probably aware that a mailing address is only valid from six months to three years of possible reach. My own assessment to this is that people move to different places a lot or every so often. It may not true to every individual culturally or so.

Then a permanent address isn't always lifetime, at least for me. If it was, then I wouldn't be in many places in search of life's meaning and true happinness. I'm not saying one has to leave home to find these things (although it helps to others) because one's happinness is one's choice; because every person views life differently. And it's the journey I'm so bound.

"I'm a gypsy!" she professed.

"Maybe a modern one" my mind disagreed.

But even then, it brings no difference - it tells the same - no permanent address.

She is a friend of a friend, and we were total strangers to each other. She shocked me in fact, but in the end I learned to admire her boldness bragging about her status in front of many people, at the party.

"Toink!" This guy (me) is totally in the same boat for many years till now. Worst than that, I've been homeless like for ages even in my own home and my own land.

If I had to keep track all the places I lived in or the number of times I moved in and out, it would take a while to gather my thoughts. It's a true mark of being a gypsy I think or a person having no permanent residency.

Who has anyway? In this temporary, crazy world???

Well, if one really has a permanent address, my question then..."How long will he or she is going to embrace that status?"  Tell me because I don't know.

Homeless people here and there, homeless families everywhere, and it is so sad to know that we got no legitimate means to this ancient enigma. Someone might have the answer - not in this real world of course - the next life for certain.

Sometimes, I felt so ashamed having no permanent address despite all the hard work chasing dreams. The truth is, one must work hard to get the best in life, and yet it isn't always true to every hardworking person. One reason to that life is just so unpredictable. For even the richest man has no ultimate security in this life. Sooner or later, he will leave his seemingly permanent home empty handed.

That's why I prefer to call my journey in this world a passerby - this helps me see and foresee my life as a temporary traveler having no home my own to brag about - as many would say no permanent address.