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When Going Home Sucks!
Have you ever wanted to not return home from your vacation?
I remember traveling in my younger years and having such an amazing time. I traveled a lot with my parents and there were many times that I simply didn’t want to go home. At that point in my life, I mostly didn’t want to go home because I knew that it meant going back to school, and usually to the cold and frozen north where Canada finds itself.
As an adult, and traveling on my own, there were a thousand reasons why I didn’t want to go home. It would mean getting back to a boring routine, a familiar environment, a place where everything was the same and unbearably predictable.
Although, there were certainly times when I was happy to get back home. Maybe I was burnt out from travelling, or I needed to go make some money, but most times I simply wasn’t.
Most times, getting home would lead to a bit of depression and the annoyance at having to get back to my normal life, when the one I had left was so darn exciting.
The thing that I didn’t realize, at that time, was that I had a choice. I didn’t know that there were actually people out in the world that simply travelled full time.
I always thought that I had to go home. I had to make money. I had to build a financial fortune. I had…
