Day Thirty Three
The spiritual side of this journey,
Part of this trip is derived by the long desire to seek out who we are within. You spend your life doing what is expected by friends, family and society. When life kicked the legs out from under you, you work hard to get back on your feet and continue to meet the expectations. In time, and after several leg sweeps from life, you find yourself on the older side of your time line. Like a freight train, the reality of this hits you smack on! this inner person you tucked away that has been waiting patiently to come out may never come to reality.
I’m the dreamer of my family and was ashamed of this, I tucked my inner self away to do what was; the right thing. Only problem is, I am just now learning that I should have been setting my life to meet my inner expectations rather than setting my life to seek approval from others.
After life’s last massive kick that landed me flat on my back, I was left without a job and a profession that was dying. I could return to another company and do what is expected of me, or stop and see if I can find this person I have hidden away, I chose the latter.
Its been about five years since I began my journey. I have founded a small woodworking shop, began to explore my interests of flying through paragliding, and through the pilot of this blog, I look to get into writing. These are things I am doing for myself, and feel I am becoming the person I always wanted to be.
So where does this journey fit into all this? Since I was young, I had always had this gut feeling that I was supposed to be someplace else. I love my home, but I felt life is about experiences, living in one place your whole life with the odd two week vacation in some hotels is not a true bite on life…. What would it be like to truly live on the road for a year? The older part of me says this is wrong, I should be doing what is expected of me! But I know the older me will be filled with regrets when it’s time for me to pass on from this world, thinking, I should have followed my heart when I had the time….So… what’s it like to live on the road for a year? that’s what we are about to find out.
