Untraveled Roads

<strong>This year, I decided not to travel abroad for the year-end holidays.<br /> With global conflicts, rising costs, and an uncertain world, staying home felt like the safer choice.<br /> But my longing to wander didn’t disappear — it simply transformed. So instead of boarding a plane myself, I created a fantasy version of me to travel in my place. Through AI, she drinks bubble tea in busy night markets, photographs glowing cityscapes, strolls under golden trees, explores frozen mountains, and drifts through dreamlike worlds I may never see in reality. Surprisingly, the images turned out even more magical than what I had imagined. They became my way of traveling without leaving home — a reminder that imagination can take us anywhere, even when the real world says otherwise.</strong>