Travel Blogging Challenge- Week 7 (Inspiration for Traveling)
There are three types of people: those who travel, those who want to travel, and those who don’t, can’t, and never will.
At 23, I’m not quite a kid and not old. People around me are getting jobs, making families, buying houses, etc. I often think to myself… what have I done with my life? What brings me satisfaction?
I would like to share my philosophy and story on why I started traveling and what nudges me to keep doing so.
Life’s too short. Optimistically, I estimate I will live another 80 years (haha, bear with me). That’s not a lot of time. My family always tells me that that’s a weird outlook on life. I grew up in a small, majority-whites town where people go to retire. People are born, raised, and live their lives there. Unfortunately, a static life not a life for me. I left. Moved to Asia, traveled the United States, backpacked Central America, moved to New York. I feel that being stationary wastes what little time I have left, which leads me to my next point.
I want to see and do something new everyday. Like many other parents of travelers, my parents want a stable, happy, safe life. They were 110% against my traveling. They were refugees from Vietnam, fleeing the country from oppression and seeking a better place. I understand that they would want me to go to school, get a stable job, and live my life happily. I am forever thankful for what they’ve done and proud of how far they’ve come since leaving Vietnam. I can’t say how much I respect them for their decisions. If I had lived in my small town forever, I would know nothing. There’s a million and infinity things I don’t know out there, and I want to change that.
Beneficial to my mind and body. Travel relieves my stress. It tells me my troubles aren’t that significant in the grand scheme of things. It shows me different sides to myself that I never knew, food that I never thought I’d like, people I’d meet, ordeals I’d surpass. I pushed my body to do crazy, amazing things while traveling more than I ever did while I was at home. It’s amazing.
What am I saving money for? Nobody knows when they’re going to lose it all. When I lost phone and wallet on a rickety bus in Guatemala, I thought I wasn’t going to make it. I realized that no matter how much I save, it would still be for naught if life takes it away in a whirl of wind. I save more money, pay more bills, save more, spend more, pay more bills. The cycle is never-ending! In my life, the only thing I’ve been happy to give my money for is to travel. I never regret spending anything on a trip out of town. Now, I save my money for travel and cultural foods around the world. 😉
If I don’t do it now, I might never do it! Goals change all the time. Today, I might love traveling, tomorrow, I might not. I might lose motivation, get lazy, change directions unexpectedly, die, etc. A few years ago, my bucket list had included going to the Amazon Forest. Today, I want to go on a cruise. I changed, because I don’t want to risk getting eaten by a giant snake, a fear I didn’t have a few years back. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but just a small missed opportunity. I just hope what I replace it with is a bigger jump for great adventures.
Share my travels. I’ve always loved traveling, even if alone. When I met my boyfriend, I experienced what it felt like to travel together. My horizons expanded. When I see/eat/go/read something great, I want to share it with my loved ones, and traveling is on the top of my things to share. It’s amazing to come home after a travel and cook the crazy dishes from around the world for my family to experience. I want so much to take my siblings to New York and show them how big the world can be.
My list of inspirations are endless. But that’s all for today, what are your inspirations in life and travel???
Hope to connect with you soon! Peace!
Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:
Week 1: A favorite travel photo of you and intro
Week 2: Little known travel tips
Week 3: Funny travel story
Week 4: Travel Misadventures
Week 5: Top Three Cultural Foods
Week 6: Unusual Travel Activities/Photos
These awesome people are also doing the challenge!!! Click to see their stories!
- In the Wild LA – Julie
- Journey Through the Trees – Victoria
- Trouvaille, Mon Cher – Aly
- Simply Kailin – Emily
- The Ben Lessard – Benjamin (Welcome aboard!)
Interested in participating in the Weekly Travel Blogging Challenge? Feel free to make your own today!
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Benjamin Lessard
Hey I nominated you for the Real Neat Blog Award – https://thebenlessard.com/2017/07/29/the-real-neat-blog-award/
Julie
When I started working full time a lot of my older coworkers told me and a few other coworkers my age to travel a lot while you can. You’d be surprise a lot of my peers displayed non-chalance towards that suggestion because it costs money. I’ve traveled a fair amount, but I should have traveled more during my early twenties.
Winta
Can I ask what you worked in after graduation? It reminds me of when I worked for an immigration law firm in NYC (corporate), all with similar views too, I guess. Seems like you’ve traveled quite a bit anyways 😉
Julie
I worked for a biomedical devices company after graduation.
Quarterlifecrisis.traveller
Fab post 🙂 I’ve always wanted to go and see the world ever since I was little. Then I was in too much of a hurry to grow up and settle down in my late teens and early twenties plus I didn’t have any finances to do it. Now the wrong side of 25 it’s time to get out there and see as much of the world as I can 😀
Winta
Would you rather have traveled first or was it a good decision to have a work life? I’m also in a fork of my path where I have to decide. Blargh. Hehehe! You are sooo welcome to join the challenge, I would love to hear more from your trip! <3 cheers!
Quarterlifecrisis.traveller
When I think about it, I don’t think I was confident enough to have gone and done it first. I think now is just the right time 🙂 Yes definitely the challenge looks fab!
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Dalo 2013
I absolutely love how you embrace life ~ and by doing so make the world around you a much better place. Great post ~ continue on with your adventures Winta. Take care and enjoy the summer of your successes 🙂
Winta
Thanks so much for your positivity! You’re the best for making my day. <3 Hope your adventures take you someplace awesome as well!
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Sylvain Lechair
Merci pour ce blog rafraîchissant.Qui donne toujours le sourire so:
Thanks for this refreshing blog !
Winta
Thank YOU for reading! I’m always so happy to find others who also have the same inspirations.
Sylvain Lechair
Reblogged this on Shift2Drive.
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The Count Gustaf
great stuff:)