My aching feet and my definition of home. Can I tell you that I have received the best compliments from people that I have met on my travels when I in some way, shape or form have to disclose my age. I know they are all probably being kind but these are definitely the kind of people i want in my life.
My Life is so amazing. I am having one of those moments that you have a hard time believing. I am in Shanghai, mainland China. These people put in 6 day work weeks or probably more based on their career choices. The YHA has them living on site, meals included for a 8 hr 6 day work week. That is a tough gig. The mainland Chinese have very limited Visa options to go to the US. They can travel to other countries but the Chinese/US relations seem to be limiting. Funny the kind of stuff you learn or are made aware of by being in a foreign country. There is so much that I think that I know that I am so ignorant of by only being in my own little realm of the world. There is so much out there that is being missed or misunderstood based on the very limiting ability of absorbing knowledge. i am so excited to be able to experience this year of travel that has opened my eyes to things that I never knew or thought I knew only to be corrected or educated about things I never even dreamed about. I definitely have a new found interest in knowledge and although I have always been curious...which has gotten me into alot of trouble in the past by being tempted to try new things or experiment with the unknown...I now know that all that you experience; the good, the bad, the abnormal make you the person that you will one day become. I gotta say I am quite pleased with my results to date. Boy I have alot to do in the future as there certainly are alot of doors that I have yet to open, window to crawl thru, alleys to walk down, sight to see, history to study and be a part of and places so remote that need to still be discovered. Others may have been there and documented their experiences but I have yet to scratch the surface. The more I see the more there is to see. the more I wander the more I discover there is more to discover. The more I talk to people about their lives (current and future), directions (where they have been, where they are going) , experiences (what have you done, what do you recommend, what do you still want to do), and share (where I have been, how I got here, encourage then to live their dreams, do what makes them smile) the more I realize this is really what is important. That the daily grind is just that. The best days of my travel have been the unexpected hour or two or afternoon when I am sitting on my bunk bed (sound weird even to me as I have not been in a bunk bed since I shared a room with my brother when we lived on Tanager in Houston; pre-teen years). Or the occasional summer trips to the cottage in Canada where there were in the early days there was a bunk bed in the second bedroom (renovations later changed that). Needless to say the experience now is the best of my life. Not having or wanting a roommate over the last many years has allowed me to live my independent life style. Who knows maybe I will eventually be ready to settle down....not unless the one I settle with likes to be on the go and travel endlessly for that may be my Future.
I have had people from all nationalities coming in and out of my life on a very frequent basis. I have only been in one place not longer than a week. I loved Thailand; what can I say and even then I was traveling thankfully with the same guys for the better part of 6 weeks and we were all over the country. I may never settle down and what a blessing that would be!
I hope if you are married to your current job that you love it and that it gives you the same inspiration, motivation and joy as I am experiencing. I put in my grueling hours in order to reap the benefits of the many blessing I am now experiencing....I hope you are doing the same.
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