Ten years ago I had my job, quit the world

Ten years ago I had my job, quit the world -

to travel ten years ago, I began the journey that would change my life. It was 04 and I was trying to convince a friend to visit the Galapagos Islands the following January. He was not sold on the idea, and instead suggested Thailand. Since I do not care where we went as long as we went somewhere, I agreed. I just wanted to escape the winter.

So in January 05, we have on our two week trip.

If you had said this journey before me, that I would come to travel back home to finish my job, and around the world, I'd thought was crazy. I was an MBA and looking for a job in renewable energy. Trip was fantastic, but I? A world traveler? Never.

But here I am 10 years later than exactly.

birthdays have a strange way you make nostalgic and thoughtful, and as this is a closer, I could not help but reflect on this trip

there are a lot, I remember him. getting scammed by a tuk-tuk drivers, street food is trying for the first time and stay in my first cheap guesthouse. I can remember in vivid detail how Bangkok's Khao San Road was lined with missing persons posters and donation boxes in connection with the Boxing Day tsunami (it had happened two weeks before our arrival). The feeling of pain in the air was so palpable.

And I remember talking to five hikers in Chiang Mai, which led me to do a few days later to my friend and say, "I'm going to my quit job to travel the world." I remember walking in Ko Samui English Bookshop act ~~ POS = HEADCOMP to buy Lonely Planet Southeast Asia on a Shoestring right after, pour over and taking notes, even before I knew what I was doing.

But the one thing that I can not remember: The why has

time caused the reason I decided to quit my job from memory to fade .. If you ask me now, I say it with jealousy those backpackers, a feeling of restlessness and an overwhelming desire was to travel to do. But, to be honest, I do not know. Most of the decisions I make in my life - good or bad - done on impulse and without thinking

All I had to remember the feeling that I had to do it .. Something snapped only.

And I just.

But, 10 years later, the why is not important to me.

If I give up my job, I thought it would be temporary, but what I did not know then - and what I learned later - was that the wanderlust will only get worse, and the more I travel have, the less likely it was I would go back to my previous life

, it is not easy to take the leap, you quit your job, and around the world to travel -. even for a few months. There are a lot of unknowns about a journey and no matter how much of a desire we have, it is often difficult is the past, to get the fear. I had no idea how I was going to make my trip if I would be able to do it, or what to expect.

But I refused to turn back.

I have never met anyone who regretted their decision to travel. Everyone is grateful for which travel has taught them even those who came home early, after realizing what she learned was that she did not like to travel.

While I never remember my thought process on that day, I never second guess my choice. If there is one lesson that I draw from this day 10 years ago, it's that you do never regret it, what makes you happy is. Sometimes our gut feeling is correct.

There were mistakes along the way. It will always be so. Nothing works perfectly. But do not regret anything.

Every time I think, "Should I do that?" I made my decision remember, nothing to travel and realize ever lost by trying. If you fail, you not only get back to where you started - but with the knowledge you tried

In 2015, do not worry what others say .. travel more. Start a garden. Quit your job to become an actor. Finally, these Spanish classes take you wanted.

not Or.

go with your gut. Take a leap and do what makes you happy.

We all have a finite time on earth. There is no sense to waste it.

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