One day, your paths will cross. You will easily recognize him. He seems carrying a light backpack but he is loaded with devices for documenting travel. But beyond these items he carries, he brings with him enthusiasm and interests to get to know more about his surroundings, about the people and about you.

He is a good inquirer, listener and a good storyteller as well. You will find yourselves comfortable with each other’s company. He’s the newest friend you wish you had met earlier and likewise, you to him.

But don’t let this traveler-blogger fall in love with you.

You become his inspiration.

And the world had recognized it first before you do.

He publishes how beautiful and memorable your place and your adventure were to everyone, over and over again, not because he wants to juice out more from SEO, but because he thinks that he didn’t cover enough all the times you both shared and spent. He sorts in immortalizing through repeated storytelling in hope to perfectly describe the new experience.

The world is constantly updated of his day to day life days after that weekend because he feels he was reborn. To him, an inspired version 2.0 of him is worth celebrating. Everyday.

It is because of someone, of all people in the world, whom the universe has given during his search. And you have guessed it right. It is because of you.

He takes you everywhere.

The traveler-blogger would not take it against you if you turn down his invitation to travel. He would continue his trip without you. You don’t need to be physically present because he carries you in spirit. You will find yourself in his blog post later anyway. You will see yourself even in the places you haven’t been and never knew before.

He writes his travel experiences as if you were with him enjoying the thought provoking and hope inducing sunsets and sunrises. He narrates his adventures like how the both of you would call your names in the open sea or in the open air so that echoes of your monikers will be left among with the nature.

He describes the unusual looking food the way you would despise it. Meanwhile, he remembers you as he separates the ingredients of the dish that he didn’t like in another plate which should have been yours because you like them. Your weird taste becomes his standards too when reviewing the cuisine for his next blog post.

He mentions in his succeeding posts the inside jokes only the two of you know for the misadventures he had when his partner in crime was not around.

He would attempt to learn the local language with cuss words or the vocabulary of love he reserved to say to you.

He would buy you miniature of an object or an animal that you mentioned only once to him but has always been remembered. Because he wishes you would carry it to remember him back as well.

You are always there in the subtleties of his travel updates, mandatory touchdowns and checkins and cryptic tweets. He has thousands of words to coat how he wishes that you were there.

He will cross the oceans to see you.

And when he misses you, he goes the distance and take the earliest in and latest out trips. Even when airlines become less generous and profit oriented on peak seasons, he still books flights, not because he will collect miles or rewards as consolations later, but because he wants to collect memories with you in the best time of the year.

He is the visitor to your hometown but it’s all up to your itinerary, not his, as long as you’re happy and it won’t do much hassle for you.

If you travel together to another place, he has the remaining 25 letters ready in planning just in case things won’t go right in the first run.

No page rank or ad clicks will amount to the prize he won on this trip – your time.

You become part of his bucket list.

His long bucket list will never end to grow but one thing remains pegged on the top of the list. The constant number one destination is simply any place where he’s next to you. He may circumnavigate the world, visit all the countries, see all the world wonders, but he is consistently working on ticking one item, the most important, a special spot he wishes he could stay forever – at your heart.

Because the most comforting for him ever is to get back to you, to do things offline with you, and to say “I’m home!”

He’s ready for new adventure.

Yet, despite all these grandeurs, you should not let the traveler-blogger fall in love with you if you would only allow his love crash in a one-way trip. He could have enjoyed creating himself at the comfort of being alone but he took an impromptu side trip of crossing a familiar dangerous river again. For once, he was bent or half-empty and traveling has been a promising fix. He has witnessed departures from the saddest airports and he doesn’t need to see and to hear yet another goodbye. Don’t let this life hack delay his happiness.

But if you let yourself fall in love with a traveler-blogger too, then stay with him. And by staying, it means going with him. Seek and share the adventure of a lifetime. Now that you’ve seen how small the world is when it brings the both of you together, the time has come for the both of you to explore how big the world is too.

For many years in his uncertain blogging career, he has been aiming some of his blog posts to go viral and to be shared by thousands of people. But nothing compares with this one, with you officially in it. He has been waiting to ink this story in forever. An immortal post meant to be shared only by two.