Backpacking isn’t slacking!
When I left the UK to go backpacking for the first time, I thought of it as a two year holiday but with a bit more adventure. I never realised how much it would teach me. I have learnt a lot about myself and I realised loads about my old “life” in London, not really a life at all! Backpacking has taught me so much, not just about myself, but about other people, other cultures, geography, religion, language and it has also awakened my creative side and I have found so many talents within myself that I never knew existed, so much so that my whole way of life has now been altered! The way I think, my goals in life, my beliefs, my direction in life. I’ve become much more confident and I actually have a pretty good view of the world now.
I have gone from being imprisoned in my material, working hard life to being as free as I like, travelling and having no direction except enjoying life and learning. I never realised how easy and free life can be and how much choice I actually have. The backpacking experience will obviously be different to everyone and it will also depend on how much you will force yourself out of your comfort zone, but I for one am certainly not going back to the so called ‘life’ I had in the UK, I have never been more free and happy. I the travel bug and there is no cure!
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