I was too scared to go travelling…
I had left my home country on my own to go to Europe…
But this wasn’t travelling…
I wanted to create a new life for me…
So I had to work
Because I didn’t have much money either
In my mind, I had a vision to create a different life for me
In another country so working was part of it
But when I met my husband who was from England
He had a different idea of life
He had worked hard, bought houses and gone travelling…
He didn’t want to stay in England and do “normal” life
He wanted to go travelling with me
And experience the same freedom as he once did on his own
but this time with me
I simply didn’t get it…
What do you mean go travelling?🙄
Do you mean you don’t work for a whole year?🤔
I was 29 years old at the time and
although I had done something incredibly brave
to leave my culture
I still had the same believes with me
You need to work hard,
buy a house and
at some point have a family
(I wasn’t so sure about the latter)
So I told him I would go travelling if we bough a house first
So we had somewhere to go back to in case we needed
We bought the house
Renovated the house ourselves for 17 months whilst working full time
and as soon as the house was ready
We rented the house
and bought a one way ticket to Mexico
with the vision to travel the whole Central and South America
I experienced for the first time in my life what was like to be free
✨Free of any responsibility
✨Free to do what I wanted
✨To be who wanted
Just plain and simple freedom
I remember noticing how simple life could be
All we had to worry about was
what will we eat today,
where we’re going to sleep and
where we’re going tomorrow
Through 10 months we travelled through Central and South America
We went to beaches, mountains, desserts, volcanoes
You name it
To say this was one of the best experiences in my life is an understatement
We did some incredible things
We went to beautiful places
We experienced so much
The more I go within
The more I realise that freedom has always been one of my core values
by nature
The feeling is comfortable
It is warm and fuzzy almost
It is palpable
Deciding to go travelling was one of the first decisions I made
to doing something for me only
for joy and happiness alone
no end goal, no expectations, no plans, nada,
just me and freedom🤸🏽
What have you done in the past that made you feel free?
PS: This is me in the salt flats of Bolivia in 2009
