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How to be Lucky
April 12, 2007
I recently purchased a Moleskine Info Book, which is basically a small, organized travel journal, and thought back to last summer, and how different my current situation is than it was less than a year ago.
If there’s one thing I can recommend to those in my age group, especially the focused ones, and the successful ones, and those who have plans and structure and will graduate college and have families, it would be to choose a season, and for those few months, forget everything.
If you can find an average-paying job in another state, in another country, and have the opportunity to befriend new people, completely new people, you’re set. When you get a chance to MapQuest a fun city that’s a 12-hour drive away and head there immediately, to sleep in the car with sand in your hair because the hotels at the resort beaches are much too expensive, to eat Pop-Tarts for breakfast and for lunch and for dinner, and to be glued to a camera because these are people and places that you probably won’t see again, at least for a long, long time, then you’re lucky.
I will admit that the idea of leaving the parents or bills or routine is usually completely overwhelming, but I think everyone, at least once, needs to take that chance.
April 12th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Good advice, but I’m much to anal to take it.
April 12th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Oh no. I’m messing up all over your site these days. I meant “too.”
April 12th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I completely agree. I’d love to the idea of random traveling. I love watching people and just wondering what their lives are like, wishing I could just exchange places with them for a week to live a whole new way of life.