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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. -Horace Walpole, novelist and essayist (1717-1797)

Interesting fact, Horace Walpole was the man who coined the word "serendipity".

Seems like an all round optimistic kind of guy.

Interesting article. On how we use irony, as a shield. How do we communicate with authenticity? Do we need to sound cool all the time?

If Not Now, When?

I'm starting something. However it ends, whether I choose to end it, quit or fail, I am gonna continue to start this something. Because this procrastination is taking me nowhere, fast.
I constantly go back to reading and searching blogs, books, articles whatever on the subject and I've found people who do think like me doing amazing things with what they have. My question is, "Can a person like me, in my situation, with my economic background, country, and upbringing be able to go through long term travel?" Imagine to be away 3-4 months at a time when I have never been away from home for more than 2 weeks? The ultimate goal is though, can I change myself and my life, for the better through my actions. To be more open minded, calm, considerate, effectionate, more confident and less shy.

Perhaps I may ask myself down the road why through travel? There are many other ways, signing up for a 3D MAX course or taking up a writing class (which i will do eventually), and to answer myself, it's probably the most drastic way to jolt me out of my comfort zone. Perhaps a shock to the system will get me out of my funk, a big project and ultimate goal to work towards. Also it's a chance to get something much more out of something I truly love to do.

I am very boxed in with my upbringing and the idea that we can't be more than just one thing at a time. To pursue 10,000 hours of a skill to master it. Though I belive in it I don't want to just dedicate 10,000 hours to just one thing. With this experiment, I am testing my flexibility and powers of adaptation. I will have to learn new ways of seeing things expecially how I think about money and ways of making and saving it.

These people who are doing this are a lot smarter than me, more capable, more disciplined, extremely intelegent and definitely more fluent with what they have to say but hey I gotta give this a shot or it'll always be, "What if?" and when I was 25 going through my quarter life crisis, I said to myself I don't want to be the same person 5 years from now. It's been 2 years, where am I now?

David, Meet Goliath

As a family member of someone fighting this desease, its a constant uphill battle. When even going to the doctor is a behemoth of a challenge. The Goliath has yet to be beaten.

Ironic

After thinking our van was almost gonna crash into something (goat, motorcycle, car, jeep van, lorry, human) the whole time we were in India. I come home to crash my car into another right here, back home. Oh the irony.

Backpacking

I've never been backpacking. I've travelled, to here and there. Would my Taiwan trip be considered backpacking? 6 destinations in 8 days. I keep noticing that word when I research travel. I want to try this backpacking. My feet are getting itchy.