How Travel Changed My Life
I was just a 22 year-old corporate player almost six years ago. I dreamt of having it all. I thought promotion would be the only way to do it. So I chased it. I got it, every year. I was such a lucky bastard. It’s almost unimaginable for me what I was able to accumulate in such a short period of time (coming from a family that has nothing... literally nothing).
I was paying for my own condominium unit as well. I’m earning enough for myself. I travelled within the Philippines, in places that I could only dreamed of when I was a kid.
And on my 25th birthday, I’ve decided to travel outside the Philippines, another dream that I wanted to fulfil. I created the itinerary and I invited my friends. And then I flew, not knowing that my birthday trip would change me forever.
Suddenly almost everything seemed to have no value anymore to me. The things, the material things that I thought I wanted, that I thought I needed, that I thought would define me as a person... were just nothing. And so, I lost all the things that I accumulated in the past.
Travelling taught me that life is more than having this and that. Travelling taught me that there is life beyond my cubicle. Travelling burst my small bubble on how I see life, how I see MY life and how I see the world I live in. Travelling taught me that there’s so much goodness in this world despite of all the bad things that happened to me.
Travelling taught me to become human, in all its essence.
How about you? How did travel change your life?
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9 Responses to "How Travel Changed My Life"
awh... this one is so inspirational... thanks for b brightening up my day... =]
November 9, 2010 9:03 AM
it is healing for me and my way of learning new things, culture, dialect.
nice post flip, straight from the <3
November 9, 2010 2:37 PM
travelling opened my eyes as well! you meet people and you realize that beauty has no standards.
I'm still in the corporate environment and like you, I no longer crave in playing the game. I'm just taking my time here but I know that I'll be able to travel and get paid while traveling; I can feel it. hehe.
nice post again Flip!
November 9, 2010 8:34 PM
@ailee: you're welcome. thanks for reading my posts :-)
@james: well said, i couldnt agree more... it's a wway of healing our broken souls...
@ed: definitely right... it breaks a lot of boundaries... thanks for the compliment ed
i feel like a student when i travel - i keep learning. :)
November 10, 2010 10:30 AM
traveling made me appreciate life even more. God is good and He created such a beautiful world!
November 10, 2010 3:33 PM
@sarah: yup i agree, lots of new things to learn
@jerik: :) Amen to that bro!
darn! this post makes me wanna resign na! haha
Wala na akong masabe kase paulit ulit ko na atang sinasabe sayo. bsta, someday it'll all make sense. :)
ang lage ko nlng iniisip sa ngayon, "If I wanna change my destiny, I must learn to sacrifice".
Happy travels Flip! :)
November 12, 2010 11:48 AM
I was able to meet new people and get out of my comfort zone... Travelling is my life... It's addictive... =D
November 12, 2010 3:22 PM
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