My Whole Life Has Been on Hold Until Now

Posted by Mike Richard on October 24, 2006
Filed under: Pre-Trip

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From the 99,923 reasons to travel department …

In a thread on TravelPod.com titled “Putting life on hold, Have you ever taken a year to travel?“, traveller Jawad replies:

It depends on your perspective really. By life do you mean your job, car, mortgage, day to day routine you are used to? Surely life should be more than that. When you find yourself travelling and experiencing things you only dreamed about back home; that’s when you realise that your life has been on hold until now.

This seems so ridiculously obvious and yet … I never thought of it this way. My RTW travels are not the intermission in the play of my life. My work-a-day job, cushy yuppie apartment, travel mug, and commuter car are the intermission. Life is everything beyond.

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Vagabondish editor Mike Richard lives in Rhode Island - a small patch of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats and speaking in the third person.



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Comments

walter
February 14th, 2008 - 10:34 am

I had the opposite feeling before I left. I decided to go traveling about 1,5 years before I actually left. From that point on I decided to spend no more money on things like curtains, furniture, electronic devices etc.
Too bad I had just moved and therefore lived in an unfinished apartment for a year and a half.
On the other hand it was yet another eason I was glad to finally be able to start travelling :)