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Born in an ordinary background, I once believed that saving money is the master key to resist the storm of life, and it can lock all uncertainties out of the door.
But as I got older, I gradually felt that it was more important to embark on a journey when I was young than to hold on to my savings.
What matters is travel, not travel.
The two are not the same. Many college students will travel around the world during the holidays to punch in and take pictures of delicious food-this is not what I mean by travel.
Travel should be walking on the road, meeting the world unexpectedly, discovering rather than following traces, and not templating one’s own itinerary according to the ready-made strategies on the Internet.
Those who follow the footsteps of others are more about enjoying life. No matter young or old, the experience is no different.
But real travel can help people discover themselves, especially make people see their true love.
I have a friend who chooses to take a break from school early to travel. I didn’t understand her decision at that time, but looking at her life afterwards, I realized that her path was never confused again.
At first, she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do in the future. She didn’t like her major, but she didn’t necessarily hate it.
At an age full of uncertainty, she chose to see the world first.
Over the years, she found a more suitable stage for her. In contrast, I went almost the opposite way.
I have changed jobs over the years, and they are very different from each other. Because I don’t know what I like, I keep tossing.
Sometimes obviously get a stable job, but a voice suddenly pops up in my heart: Are you really sure? Are you sure you want to spend your life like this?
I can’t tell whether this is an obsession or a real heart, and I don’t know what I should do or what I am suitable for doing.
There is also a friend who went abroad to work and spend a holiday in his early years, then returned to China, settled in Dali for a year, sorted out his thoughts and returned to the city again.
Now she has been moving steadily on her own path. She completely changed her career trajectory, from a communications engineer to an interpreter. This seemingly irrelevant transformation may be exactly what her heart wants.
I once met a Dutch traveler in Bali. He was over forty years old and quit his job to travel.
Asked why, he said, he just didn’t know what he wanted to do yet, and wanted to go out for a walk first.
“Restart life” sounds like a very advanced vocabulary, but in fact, not many people can really endure grievances and seek perfection for a lifetime.
Those who are no longer young but still choose to run away are not necessarily because they are brave, but they just don’t want to continue wasting their lives.
We can convince ourselves to suck it up and stop in order to survive, but please believe that it won’t be the life you really want to live.
When you are young, travel more, see the world, take different paths, talk and share with different people. You will gradually form your own values in the interweaving of scenery and humanities.
The world exists objectively, and life needs to come out by itself.
We can imitate the successful template in the eyes of others and think that having a house and a car is the winner, but if we are born as a fish, how can we force ourselves to go ashore?
Travel is the angle from which you see the world and the window from which you see yourself. What’s more, there is a real problem in front of us: older re-employment.
When you are young, you have more opportunities for trial and error. If you want to change careers and re-enter a new field until you are thirty years old, you may face more resistance than young people.
Life can’t be repeated. While we predict the future with reason, we should not forget the weight of sensibility in life.
When you are young, saving money is important, but if you spend it for travel, it should not be simply regarded as a waste.
