After the first three months of traveling around I wonder: what will remain of all of this afterwards? Will it have some meaning to me – even in some years? Will it make a difference?
To be honest: I don’t know, yet. Who knows what will be important to me, to us in some years.
But let me share some second thoughts.
What are the things that make me the happiest on my travels? What are the things that make me ponder? That make my travels meaningful to me?
They are the small encounters with people I meet along the way. The exchange of honest thoughts and views about life. With good intentions for one another. Without any second thoughts, comparison with each other or envy. The things that make the difference to me are the small connections which occur.
It is not to being in the trendiest place or doing the most adventurous, most thrilling things. Anyway there is always someone who is doing something fancier than you.
From time to time of course I also make myself hard times to decide which country to travel best or what other people might think. In these moments it helps me to not take myself too serious. To zoom out, away from the problem, which is viewed from another perspective anyway so often only a luxury problem. Zoom out, high above the clouds – make a molehill out of the mountain. And not the other way round.
Thanks to the people in my life that remind me of this from time to time…