Wanderlust

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Wanderlust is a term that designs some strong wish of walking. It is not a simple desire, it takes whole body and soul in such an unrest sequence of events, first starting with a tension in the muscles, or legs or even the entire body, that takes the one to a need of walking around, not short walking, but very long ones.

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Also characterized by a homesickness, it can be understood more at a deep level of the human condition as a search for a new philosophy, religion or place. After gestation in the mind, wanderlust, like a locomotive chugging to final destiny, then takes a body on a restive trip that takes long time to accomplish.

In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest, guided by an almost out-of-control desire, starts a long run around the whole USA, and then suddenly stops and walks home.

In short, wanderlust is a trip, or a need to understand one's very existence, that starts with the first step of a long journey.

[edit] Definition

Wanderlust (Middle High German: wandern, to wander, and Lust, desire) is a German loanword. It is commonly defined as a strong desire to travel, or, of having a strong desire to explore the world.[1] Some consider it to be a simple linguistic compound of wander and lust.

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The first occurrence of the word in English dictionaries is recorded as 1902.[2] In German, the term Wanderlust sounds old-fashioned today to some. To retranslate the English Wanderlust in the sense of "love of travel", the expression Fernweh (composing of 'Fern'= 'far' and 'weh'= 'ache', compare to 'Heimweh'=homesickness 'Heim'=home) is more appropriate.

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  1. ^ wanderlust from TheFreeDictionary
  2. ^ Wanderlust from the Online Etmology Dictonary

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