5 years ago today I land at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, with a pack on my back, a money belt around my neck and killer jet lag.
4 months of planning and 20 days away from D, I was ready to take on the world. Well, at least the Western European part.
It was the beginning of this life I now have come to inhabit as a nomad, a traveller, a bum, a itchy feet person.
I remember being that person, working in a job i didn't love, spending way to much money in an overpriced city, angry and argumentative, jaded, a bit bitter and overall, lost.
Not really that far off from most people in their early 20s, disolutioned with life after school, not quite sure what is meant to happen next and if this, this 'life' is really, all there is.
I want to go back to my struggling early 20s self and just tell her that it will all be okay, it will change, it will get better.
And it has, because, for the most part, I made a promise that I would never let myself be trapped again. I would never continue doing something because 'everyone else was' or 'it was what you're supposed to do' if it wasn't something that I wanted to do.
I'm happy that I've lived by this simple principle. But it's important to relfect on the anniversaries on such things so that you don't lose sight on why you started in the first place.
4 months of planning and 20 days away from D, I was ready to take on the world. Well, at least the Western European part.
It was the beginning of this life I now have come to inhabit as a nomad, a traveller, a bum, a itchy feet person.
I remember being that person, working in a job i didn't love, spending way to much money in an overpriced city, angry and argumentative, jaded, a bit bitter and overall, lost.
Not really that far off from most people in their early 20s, disolutioned with life after school, not quite sure what is meant to happen next and if this, this 'life' is really, all there is.
I want to go back to my struggling early 20s self and just tell her that it will all be okay, it will change, it will get better.
And it has, because, for the most part, I made a promise that I would never let myself be trapped again. I would never continue doing something because 'everyone else was' or 'it was what you're supposed to do' if it wasn't something that I wanted to do.
I'm happy that I've lived by this simple principle. But it's important to relfect on the anniversaries on such things so that you don't lose sight on why you started in the first place.
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