When my Mum sadly passed away some 18 months ago I was reminded, like we all are when somebody close to us dies that life is both precious and fragile and it was this very realisation that made me question my own life and in particular whether I was I living to the fullest...
...So yeah... a good job, a great apartment and enough cash left over at the end of each month to have a few good nights out - it's certainly a comfortable situation to be in but I can't look you in the eyes and tell you I was really 'living life'. Existing? Yes. But not living.
So after a great deal of thought the decision was taken - things had to change and having never travelled abroad or stepped foot inside a plane what better way to start living life than by travelling the World?
Since taking that decision I have thought about little else twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and write this entry this morning having never before been so sure of anything in my entire life.
Today is truly the first day of the rest of my lifeThis past year has gone by quickly; mainly I guess because I have spent a great deal of my free time reading and researching to help me develop what has become a very open and flexible travel plan.
Purposefully avoiding the habit of a lifetime I have steered away from constructing a day-by-day itinerary and instead opted simply for a one-way ticket to Toronto with arrangements in place to cover my initial six weeks. And from there? Well I guess you could say the World is my oyster but my aim is to travel down through the Americas, hop the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia and come back home via south-east Asia, the Gulf states and Europe.
What about how long I will be gone for? Well your guess is as good as mine on that one but depending on if and when I put my TEFL course to good use it could be anything from 6 months to 3 or 4 years.
So I sit here this morning in the departure lounge in the south terminal at Gatwick Airport. I have quit my job, had half a dozen vaccinations, left my apartment, "liberated" myself of all my stuff and said my goodbyes.
I am a little nervous but mostly I am filled with excitement knowing that in just a couple of hours I am going to board my plane and embark on the adventure of a lifetime!I am a little nervous but mostly I am filled with excitement knowing that in just a couple of hours I am going to board my plane and embark on the adventure of a lifetime.
Today is truly the first day of the rest of my life.
This is the ginger revolution and this ladies and gentlemen is only the beginning.
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