To state the plain, you solely get one life. Cats are stated to have 9… fortunate them. However when you do it proper, you solely want one!
I’ve all the time feared concern, for to fall into concern could be to not dwell a satisfying, difficult limit-breaking life. And what enjoyable would life be with out limits in place for the aim of being damaged? As people we instinctually seek for extra. That might be more cash, extra success, extra freedom, extra choices, or simply extra for our lives. It might be stated that this seek for extra comes from an inherent meals chain within the sport of life. There’ll all the time be somebody with greater than you, somebody doing greater than you, so instinctually you need extra for your self. I hate to fall into the entice of comparability as a lot as the following particular person, however comparability permits us to push tougher, attain additional, and create extra for ourselves. What’s so unhealthy about that?
Final 12 months I went on a yearlong solo journey world wide. Proper now, I’m again the place I began that 12 months of adventures in London, England, pondering what the final 12 months has given me. I used to be too stressed to calm down in a brand new metropolis or city, so I pro-longed my adventures and knew that in the future, that will be a brand new chapter (or in my case a brand new ebook).
I discovered first hand that life just isn’t meant to be lived in a single place.
Previous to taking on travelling full time – seeing new locations, assembly new faces, and difficult myself each day with new surroundings, smells, languages and cultures – I had by no means actually allowed myself to develop into the girl I might be. I had boxed myself right into a small city mentality, believing that this was the life set out for me, so that is the life I’d dwell.
However the fact is you may be something and anybody, a lot much less do ANYTHING you may dream of. When you have the dream, the ambition and the perseverance, you may actually make nearly something occur.
From dwelling in several cities – some for 2 nights, some for 2 weeks, some for 2 months – I discovered to broaden my horizons, widen my eyes, and mindlessly let change occur with out forcing it. I discovered new languages, cultural dances, chants, and all type of issues that may by no means are available in helpful except at a bazaar trivia night time the place I’m nearly sure I’d stroll away with first prize. However I additionally learnt related issues by journey – I discovered the historical past first hand, and I needn’t clarify how standing on the Berlin wall offers you a a lot deeper appreciation for the crimes towards humanity than a textbook ever might all through my schooling. I discovered to be affected person in a approach that might have by no means been put in into me by the self-discipline of my mom – the type of persistence the place your face doesn’t even give solution to a raised eyebrow when somebody pushes in entrance of you in a line… as a result of at the back of your thoughts you calmly keep in mind that you don’t essentially have wherever to be or anybody to see anyway. I discovered to know completely different cultures, religions, and mannerisms. Regardless of being a Christian, I grew an appreciation and understanding for different religions by visiting numerous mosques, cathedrals and synagogues. Thus, I discovered tolerance.
One might write for days on finish in regards to the methods wherein journey enriches you, opens your thoughts and your coronary heart. However the greatest lesson I feel I discovered was that from having this expertise and from dwelling this unbelievable journey, I’m left with an obligation to move on this information that life just isn’t meant to be lived in a single place.
So go on, dwell the journey.
