Different ways to live+travel

Stillness can be freedom too.

home isn’t something you find or inherit. It’s something you build, piece by piece, when you stop chasing the next better version of your life. Because the irony is, that’s when you actually become her—the future you you’ve been running after all along. You root, not because you’ve given up, but because you’re finally ready to stay.

Political theorist Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between negative and positive freedom explains why so many nomads get stuck. Negative freedom is the absence of external constraints—freedom from something . Positive freedom is the ability to shape one’s life with agency—freedom to do something meaningful .