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Tomorrow is my official last day of international traveling. That's it. My 3 months are up. I head for New York on Friday to see my cousin. I have been super looking forward to it but there is definitely this side of me that hasn't fully grasped that this is really over. I'm not ready for it to be totally over yet I'm ready at the same time. I'm tired of living out of a backpack, sharing a room with strangers, and sharing one bathroom with 6 other humans. It gets pretty tiring to do that. But even with that said, it's all worth going through because the adventures and everything that comes with traveling is priceless. I miss getting in my car and driving wherever I want. I miss my cat. And I miss my family and friends. Everything else I don't mind at all such as getting confused and/or lost as long as it's not late at night and by myself, figuring out how to communicate with people who don't speak English, paying for disgusting public bathrooms and sharing a room with a bunch of people:) I definitely won't miss the taxi drivers. All of them were a******s and overpriced except for the ones in Indonesia who at least bargained with you. What I KNOW I WILL MISS is the luxury of having days to myself to do whatever I want and how I want, to get lost in neighborhoods, to walk for hours on end, to try new foreign foods, to figure out how to say hello and thank you in a new language, to take a million photos of a new and wondrous place I'm just barely discovering, to making new friends, to learning from so many different types of human beings from all over the world, to meet like minded individuals, to those amazing conversations, to listening to the beautiful universe guide me along my way, to people watching, to human being observing, to learning new cultures, to being the one with the accent and to being the foreigner. Here is what I've learned: to letting go of all my fears, to not allowing anxiety to control me, to relinquish ego, to let go of concepts, and knowing and realizing that traveling alone is really the only way! And most of all to sharing and giving love and know that the universe is bigger than you and to trust yourself and never doubt your path. To love yourself and hold yourself to your highest regard. And to spread that love everywhere you go. We are all human beings experiencing this life together. Respect and love one another free of judgement. Age is just a number. I have learned from 20 year olds to a 54 year old man. So love your life and never regret anything. Live fearless. Fear is just in your mind. Travel. Be free. Be yourself. Hermosa Vida!!
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