4 Lessons Travelling The World Taught Me
#2 — It’s OK To Feel Bad
At the ripe age of 18, I traveled on my own for the first time.
With only a briefcase, a book under my arm, a pair of John Lenon sunglasses, and with excitement running through my veins, I headed to Madrid for a year of volunteering.
This is when I would experience my first true sense of freedom.
Following this experience, a few years later, I got hired for what you could call a “dream job”, with all expenses paid to travel around the world as a videographer/assistant under a self-help coach.
Doing so, I traveled to over 16 countries in under a year, an experience that would push me to the limits of the amount of discomfort I can handle.
Through sleeping in couches, meeting dozens of people from all over the globe, all the way to returning home, concluding what you could call “The Hero’s Journey”, these are the top 4 lessons I brought with me.
#1— We Are Not Alone (Even If It Feels So At Times)
Originally from a small city, the type where everyone knows each other, I had always struggled to be myself.
As someone naturally on the introverted side, with interests that often didn’t match with the ones…
