Life is dynamic – ever changing
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
– Casare Pavese
I’ve climbed to the rooftop of Basilica Catedral de la Asuncion for a sweeping view of the charming colonial city León and the surrounding volcanoes in Nicaragua. But I know the world’s most breathtaking views aren’t reachable by elevators or highway off-ramps. They’re hidden at the end of rocky trails, at the bottom of canyons, deep in caves, and even underwater.
I’ve been diving with large stingrays in Belize, sea turtles in Honduras and snorkeling with sharks in Thailand. In Bali I spent a day repelling down mountains, swimming in waterfalls and jumping off cliffs.
I don’t look for experiences which provide a substantial adrenaline rush but experiences which make me feel alive.
Doing morning yoga on a roof top in incredible India is by itself a rewarding journey with oneself but sharing this experience by the Ganges, with temples chants around is just magical.
I travel to learn, to experience, and to feel all the spectrums of being human in this world.
Traveling has helped me to explore, discover, learn and enrich my mind and soul immeasurably. Traveling makes me empowered to make decisions, step out of my comfort zone and appreciate what I have at home. I travel not just to go, I travel to evolve. Embracing new experiences, endlessly changing horizons, and each brand new day as a way of living. You can always make money. You can’t always make memories.
Too many people hang their happiness on achieving things in life. Having a bigger car. A safe job. Bigger salary. An attractive partner.
Happy, content people understand it’s not about reaching the goal. For me it has always been about the process towards a goal. Living in a world of possibilities, I often enjoy my plans more than my own achievements.
The real excitement of life often lies in the work towards something greater than myself.
I deem courage in people weighs more than achievements which have come to them easy. I try to work hard when I work. It makes me appreciate my travelings even more.
I travel at the cost of sacrifices and have given up a plenty of comforts for the sake of travel. I don’t mind to choose a dorm bed in a cheap hostel, a hammock or on an airport floor. The uncomfortable becomes comfortables to me.
The best things in life aren’t things. I’ve learned that the less things I have, the better I live.
There will always be things that are important to me, that you don’t care about at all. Sometimes your behavior doesn’t make any sense to me.
I have my own thoughts and my own ideas – that may or may not fit into your vision of who I should be. I know I can’t expect you to want all the same things I want because we are not the same person. We will therefore not always see things the same way.
How can we improve our interpersonal relationships? Realign my expectation towards others? And gain a better self-knowledge?
I find it important to understand each other and communicate well because we live together in the same world.
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior”– Stephen M.R. Covey
We judge from what our receptors can receive. Judging comes naturally to all humans. But shouldn’t we have more inputs for judging others for their action?
How we behave might sometimes advertise something different than our purest intent, therefore feedback from others could be of great value.
Life is dynamic – ever changing. You are forever evolving, growing and learning.
By learning about myself and my personality I can better understand my strengths and weaknesses. Don’t let anyone define your limits.
I’ve found my own way, have you?
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
– Bill Bryson
