Travelers NonSense

When you’re traveling as a back packer, there are no rules, just your common sense. If you don’t have an open mind, you will miss out on opportunities. Leave yourself at home and become someone new when you travel, then come home and become someone better. Someone that’s more knowledgeable, open minded, free spirited and someone that has a sense of pride that nothing will stop them. Traveling is about you and finding yourself. Backpacking is a freedom of no judgment, a community with their home on their back and two straps to carry it around. To embrace and integrate one’s own culture is one step closer to understanding your surroundings. If you plan your entire traveling experience, you might as well stay at home and plan to pack the same old sandwich/ left over pizza for work tomorrow. Let yourself go and let opportunity break the shell that you’ve always been comfortable in. Grab the opportunity to see where it takes you and you will learn to just go with the flow. A balanced life is key, work hard but play just as hard. Don’t miss home and don’t forget it, that’s where you come from, be proud. When you are traveling, don’t miss the comforts of home. Home is a stationary life that goes on without you but has not forgotten you. To fail at something is human, to understand one’s failure is an experience to be learnt from, not something to be shunned or punished. An achievement is to be celebrated with lots of beer and new friends when traveling. There are lots of failures and achievements to be experienced before you get back home. A smile and laugh will brighten anyone’s day, but a bad day is just a bad day, so let it roll off your back and move on. Let go of the unfortunate things that have happened in your life and free your soul. Tomorrow is a new start, take one day at a time with an old friend or a new friend that you met two days ago. If you say yes to opportunities that come along, more times than you’d say no to them, you are living life. If you say no more often than yes, life is living you.

by Trev