Simple Things

It is probably less dramatic than this, but moving from one phase of your life to another is rather scary. Because you don’t know what lies ahead. I mean, you know what you’re gonna do, or what you’re gonne go through, but you don’t know for sure, you get what I mean?

There was the time when I moved away from home into a foreign country for study. There was the time when I started university. Then there is now, moving into adult working life.

I wonder how it will turn out. I can’t say that I’m prepared. I can, however, say that I’m excited. Something new is always welcomed.

No words, just photos.

“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn” ~ David Russell

When you get away from your comfort zone and into a foreign land, you learn hell lot about yourself.

I discover more about myself in those two weeks I was away than I ever thought I could. Things like these, you just don’t find them in your everyday life. There is this one particular thing I learn about myself that I thought I wasn’t.

I love to plan, to the minute details, of everything before embarking onto anything. The satisfaction of events playing out as you planned them is inescapable. It feels great when you foresee certain things and your plans have provisions for those.

But during those 2 weeks I was away, I found myself falling in love with the sponteneity of doing things outside planned structures. Things just happen, and if you let it roll, it will bring you to places you’ve never been and it will demand your engagement in something you’ve never tried.

As random as it may seem, I think the purest form of excitement comes when you do something you’ve thought you’ll never do.

I travel not to learn about other people; I travel to learn about myself ~ Somewhere on the walls of the hostel I stayed in

p.s. More photos as I sort out my collections.