Have you ever made an insane decision in your life? Have you ever regreted about it? Well, I have just made one. I quited my job (which I trully love and feel passionate about) to prepare for my South America Trip. Now it is still messy a bit with visa stuffs but I have not regreted yet.
People wonder how crazy I am?
It is easy to say “do it”. Yea. I made that decision within 5 minutes and then carried out 1 week later, about arranged my job and asked for the allowance of my boss.
Nothing is as easy as saying “do it”. But it was really hard to get acceptance from others. I’m living in Vietnam, and I’m going to travel South America. Such a huge distance. And there is even no any flight from Vietnam to South America directly. You can imagine how my parents feel about that crazy idea, right? Everyone looked at me like crazy. They kept asking me whether or not I was kidding. From my boss, my colleagues, my friends, my family,... Nobody understands my situation, only the few who did the same before, and I actually feel like an alien in an environment where I have spent all my life. It is like loosing my identity. Not joke, I felt like emotionally raped.
How did I do it?
I admit that it was not easy as I thought. It needs to be planed thoroughly. But I was lack of preparation. If there are not someones help me, I think I could not accomplish it.
There were not all worries like: how to avoid every trouble with visa stuff, will the journey be safe, will the saved money be enough, will I ever find a job again? My life have been planned for: “Get a job. Go to work. Get married. Have children. Follow fashion. Act normal. Save for old age”. Daring to break out the normal live pattern that I have been educated to comply with all my life is a massive shock to my comfort zone. Fortunately I can find a lot of encouragements from someones who have gone through all this before and feel I’m not alone on this planet. I carried out step by step with a great support from my friend. I noted every experience from travelling blog. Concentrated on myself and believed in my decision.
I also had to sacrifice somethings. Firstly is my career. Probably, if I stayed with my law firm and kept accumulating work experience, then my career path would be better. Or, if I stayed with family in my hometown, my parents might bring for me some guy to get maried, settle down and have a peaceful life. If I kept saving that money which I decided to spend for my trip, I might have a full life. But it was only my choice, and there is no perfect ones. I think it is worthy to sacrifice something.
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Someones blame me that I’m being irresponsible. No. I am taking responsibility of my own life. I believe that the most valuable resources in the world is time and the most priceless thing in our life is experience. I’m investing for myself. It will be an amazing and meaningful experience I may not get a second chance at. It maybe hard, but always possible and absolutely worth it, right?
Should you do the same thing?
I dont know but I believe that you should do what you want to do, desire to do rather than what others or society expect you to do. However, as I was mentioning before, it needs to be well planned. If you really want to do it, think about the worse case that can happen to you and then decide whether you could handle it and it is worth giving it a chance or not.
Ask all the opinions to all the people around you, but make sure that your last decision is going to be your own only. Also be reassured that whatever decision you take it will the the perfect for you in that moment. Therefore no regrets whatsoever.
What are you going remember?
Instead of finding opportunities, people often tell themselves, 'I don't have money', 'I don't have time', 'I have too many responsibilities', and so on. If you really want to do something, you'll make plans, not excuses. Nobody cares about the reasons you didn't do something but you. You will keep asking yourself about why you did not do it? When you look back on your life, what are you going to remember? Are you going to regret about letting your life passes gradually without any highlight?
