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9 Things No One Tells You About Quitting Your Job to Travel the World
I often wonder if living on the road has taught me anything.
Some days, I sit and speak to those in my hostel and often think ¨wow they have learned so much while traveling, ¨ which inevitably leads me to the question.
¨Have I learned anything?¨
I feel like I have changed and grown, but am I being delusional, and maybe it is my ego that thinks I have changed so much?
Also, writing is always the perfect way to reflect, and even then, have I changed, or am I more aware now? I always have many unanswered questions.
Since I have been living nomadically for five years, these are nine reflections of what I did not realize would happen.
If someone had told me these, I would have been such a ball of anxiety and stress that I would have said ¨ya big fat liar¨ how can I gain all this by just traveling!
It is like the saying once you see something, it can not be unseen. The lies are revealed once you have seen the truth, and you will never be the same again. That is how I feel about long-term travel.
