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How do you have the guts to do it?!
#travel #solotravel #courage #experience #challenge
To travel you need courage, not money. How much courage do I need for a ticket to Maldives?”
Seeing you come back confirms I did spark an interest with my first post. As someone who lives to inspire, it fills my heart with joy to have the same people return and ask for more of my experience. But enough about me, let’s talk about you, a brave future wanderer, following my work from the start!
You have seen your sign and decided to come back for more, gather all the information you need to run your solo adventure. People say that if you’re planning the construction of a new building for two months, you will be raising it for twenty years. On the other hand, if you’re planning it for five years, you will raise it in three months. As true as that is, guess what – not everything in life is a construction project! And take it from me, I’ve been planning to start with this blog for at least five years now. Let’s make sure I build it up and earn millions of dollars from it in three months! Lol.
Remember what I said last time: Go on, travel alone, explore the world, gather new experiences, enjoy your life!
Some things in life need to be jumped into head-first. You can plan for your first solo travel adventure for five years, but (again) guess what – you won’t be traveling for three months. Also, three-month travels are planned in days, not years. Some things take time, but others require a frontal approach. Stop planning and go already! (Wish someone had said this to me.) Sure, you might happen to forget something, but the experience you amass will prevent you from making the same mistake again.
If you have bought a plane/train/bus ticket, booked a hotel, packed your clothes based on the weather forecast, bought enough food to survive and boredom-eat the whole trip (!) and made a general plan of locations you would like to check into – you’re all set. So what if you forgot to pack a tooth brush, your favorite sweater or deodorant – you’re not going to Jupiter, you can buy whatever you forget at local stores.
What’s more important is that your mind stays open to new places, experiences, people, cultures, foods, drinks, ways of observing the world around you. I will take you back 10 years (OMG, I’m gonna start crying!) to when I mustered up all the courage in this world to go on my very first adventure alone. Everything ever since is plain history. It was not too far for the first time, only across the ocean…
For the whole summer of 2012, I moved to the US to work and also travel around a new continent, I’d merely dreamed of visiting. I’d never ridden a plane up to that point in my life. In fact, most of the people I know were terrified of the idea of traveling alone even to a well-known destination nearby. As I was too young and energetic, I actually spent about 80% of my time explaining to others why I have a hunch everything would be great and only about 20% of the time preparing. Not that I am not young and energetic now, I simply have no more tolerance or nerves for closed minds (not something you should tap me on the shoulder for).
Everyone was afraid – my family, my friends, any passer-by who would hear about my upcoming adventure. Luckily, I was completely deaf to all their whining, just from knowing that everything would turn out to be my first step towards greatness – as it turned out to be. I did not allow any of their negativity on board. This is what I should have remembered to practice later on, as I would keep on wasting time explaining to people why solo travel pays out. Rather than that, I decided to change the audience – and here you are!
So, last time we talked about audacity, and now we are speaking about courage. Why was the trip to the US worth my while? Because I experienced a new country head-first? Yes. Because I spent a whole summer living on my own terms and discovering I truly am a young (and I can’t emphasize it enough) adult? Yes. Because I inspired the most of my generation and even younger peers to step up and do the same thing themselves? Absolutely! Because I was penniless but able to finance my own travel across the world? That as well, can’t disagree. But most of all – because I stood the final test of courage! Yes, yes, 100% YES!
Mediocrity was never my thing. Settling for what I can get with no effort is not an option. Doing things only to please others and their “traditional values” is the dumbest thing anyone can afford to do. Investing time, belief in yourself, courage, audacity, mind, and any other resources in your future is the best you can do for your own wellbeing!
Now, just a short aftermath, as you must be dying to hear about it. I spent one whole summer living in the country I had been desiring to experience. I learned to live on my own – finance, cooking, cleaning, laundry, healthy habits, spare time etc. – I organized all of it. Mentally, I challenged myself to a whole new level, coming back from my travel at least 10, if not 20 years more grown up. I saw new places. I learnt new things. I gathered new memories. I made tons of new great friends. I lived my own life with no one’s interjection. I increased my awareness. I sparked my own interest. I made my own life happen. I BEAT THE GAME!
So, how much courage does a trip to the Maldives cost? Of course, you need financial resources to travel, that is not one of great life’s mysteries. However, if you do not have the courage to take your life elsewhere, you can always spend that money on insignificant pleasures – it’s not like it would be used better anyway.
Until next week, I encourage you to imagine yourself at the place you will be visiting on your own soon! I’m waiting for impressions.
Upcoming Projects
Heads up: The next blog post will not be published on Tuesday at noon, as the first two. The reason for that is simple. Remember the Upcoming projects part on my Home page? Well, one of the upcoming projects is (unexpectedly) coming up.
What will you get in return?
Apart from a fresh, recharged, well-rested (lol) wanderer with new encouragements to take that trip, I’ll bring you two posts closer to each other, inspiration from a certain new country I’ll be visiting, and my very first Newsletter. Plus I will achieve one of my 2023 goals in 2022. Isn’t that something! Can you guess which of the upcoming projects is going to be realized later this week? Leave your guesses in the comments below.
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