Claiming the cities

I take ownership in a way of each and every city and country I have been to. It is part of nomadic lifestyle, where everyone who travels and travels a lot becomes a modern version of explorer. These pinheads on the map later on somehow become who you are, each of them actually gives you a different perspective on life and world we live in. Its people and culture often teaches you something new about them and yourself. It is all part of the process, part of the experiment called life. The more experiments you have, the more it shapes you. It does not matter that I have multiple passports and citizenships, because at the end of the day I do not belong to any specific country, my identity is truly global. Once when someone asked me where I am from due to my accent, I told them I am from Earth. We had a good laugh about it, but I was very serious about the answer I gave. Boarders are artificial phenomena created by people, in nature they do not exist, but for some strange reason many always want to identify themselves with a specific place or country, customs or language. They want to belong... but why? 

In my case, in a modern world we live, where within a few hours we can be on another continent, in different place just like that, speak different language and eat different food we realize we are part of it all. It no longer becomes a shock to the system, rather a new reality of how truly this planet became small in the last few decades allowing us take ownership of the places we come to encounter, enjoy them, learn from them and leave them at the end while keeping many fond memories for years to come because  we often never returning to the same place. I am always hungry for new experience, new country, new city - there is so much to see and so much to learn. It is the same feeling many explorers from old world like England, Portugal or Spain had centuries ago, although their true intentions might have been very different at the time. But they claim the cities like I do... for their own reasons.