Peregrinate (verb): to travel or wander from place to place

The faint upturns of lips, the shifting tones, the body language ever so slightly poised to expose the deepest emotion… her acting throughout the movie was flawless.

She became a star overnight, skyrocketing in popularity the same way comets shot across night skies. Dreams transformed into reality. Within a few weeks, she stood atop a mountain of money and fame, exactly how she wished as a child.

Then, she entered high society. A glamorous palace where golden wealth and alluring power outshone the existentialist spirit of a person, where polite smiles masked genuine opinions. In every exchange was a second conversation, unspoken yet carried out between the lines of pretentious flattery.

Here was the world that Darwin spoke of, a survival of the fittest.

She hated every bit of it.

All she wanted was to go back to the past, when she didn’t have to worry over the fragile fakeness and social competition of high society, when life still made sense. Yet, she couldn’t bring herself back to spending every moment of her life scrambling for pennies to pay the bills, living either in a smelly flat and a cardboard box.

Aimlessly, she wandered between freedom and comfort.