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Do you ever feel like you don’t belong somewhere? I have played the college game… I have played the governmental game… I have played the relationship game… I have played the full time job game… I have even played the party and live the ski bum life game. In none of these places am I content where I am at. In none of these places can I even imagine myself staying there long term. In none of these places do I say to myself: I like being around these people and this is my life… They have all been a prelude if you will. A means to an end for me to live out my largest passion in life. Travel.
My first travel other than family vacation was to the UK my senior year of high school. It was that trip that turned me from a small town kid that was never going to leave into somebody that was always hungry for more. From then on, I have been always yearning for more. The more cultures I could see… The more situations that I could put myself in… The more I could say to myself, “I lived my life my way, where I wanted, how I wanted” the happier I was.
This is who I am. Hanging out in a pub in London, trying to out-drink an Irishman, late night parties with the owners of Zoom Bar, picking up New Yorkers on the Nicoya, hot Canadians watching me fish my rental out of a river, blackmail pictures from Panama City, people watching in Qatar, the most beautiful beaches I have ever laid eyes on in Nica land, missing trains for crepes, getting robbed by a cabbie, or just meeting a bartender and being introduced to random drinks on a beach in a far away land. These are the experiences that make me who I am. It isn’t about my job, my bank account, or the toys I own, but rather the memories of the world that define who I am. This is me….
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Jason
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:26 PM
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