To state the plain, you solely get one life. Cats are stated to have 9… fortunate them. However should you do it proper, you solely want one!
I’ve all the time feared concern, for to fall into concern can be to not reside 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 may very well be more cash, extra success, extra freedom, extra choices, or simply extra for our lives. It may very well be stated that this seek for extra comes from an inherent meals chain within the recreation 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 subsequent particular person, however comparability permits us to push tougher, attain additional, and create extra for ourselves. What’s so dangerous about that?
Final 12 months I went on a yearlong solo journey around the globe. 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 someday, that will be a brand new chapter (or in my case a brand new e book).
I realized 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 day by day with new surroundings, smells, languages and cultures – I had by no means actually allowed myself to develop into the lady I may very well 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 might reside.
However the fact is you will be something and anybody, a lot much less do ANYTHING you possibly can dream of. When you’ve got the dream, the ambition and the perseverance, you possibly can really make nearly something occur.
From dwelling in several cities – some for 2 nights, some for 2 weeks, some for 2 months – I realized to broaden my horizons, widen my eyes, and mindlessly let change occur with out forcing it. I realized new languages, cultural dances, chants, and all sort of issues that may by no means are available in helpful except at a bazaar trivia evening the place I’m virtually sure I’d stroll away with first prize. However I additionally learnt related issues by way of journey – I realized 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 may all through my training. I realized to be affected person in a method that would have by no means been put in into me by way of the self-discipline of my mom – the sort of endurance the place your face doesn’t even give technique 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 realized to grasp totally 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 realized tolerance.
One may write for days on finish concerning the methods during which journey enriches you, opens your thoughts and your coronary heart. However the largest lesson I believe I realized was that from having this expertise and from dwelling this unimaginable journey, I’m left with an obligation to move on this data that life just isn’t meant to be lived in a single place.
So go on, reside the journey.
