Packing up and leaving?

Its true that you do take yourself and your problems with you wherever you go, but I learned a lot about myself in my 2 years of travelling, and came back a better person for it.

I went with 800 quid in my pocket. I had a job within 2 weeks and moved around doing work all over the place for different persons. From fruit picking to working in a huge chateau renovating a wing (for which I got paid with mark 2 Jaguar!!), re-roofing townhouses, tobacco picking, working in a bar, installing swimming pools etc etc. Sometimes I would only get paid with food, other times items lodging, other times hard cash.

I had a tough time at times and it did not always go to plan but I say again I don't regret a moment and it made me who I am today. I definitely came back a better person, much more content with being me.

Just do it.
 
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Joshy said:
Oh, I have. I just find the ideas being discussed a bit pathetic :).
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Why on earth should we find your ideas any less pathetic?

Afterall, you have confessed to finding life a dull, pathetic, pointless waste of time, so I would fully expect the thought of adventure and meeting new people to be abhorrent to you.

Fortunately some people are more positive/optimistic about life than you are, many people have travelled from their own beginnings and found fulfillment/happiness. Your attitude is actually quite tragic tbh especially for a young person (I assume). It seems you've been beaten down like many of us and the life has been completely sucked out of you!

Some people fortunately rise above all the **** that life throws at them and still have energy and desire for life, they should be encouraged and not fed a bunch of feeble/pathetic excuses in an attempt to deter them from following their dreams and passions, why try dragging them down to the cesspit of negativity that you live in?
 
Oxy said:
Do you get the feeling of just grabbing your passport and driving, anywhere... I have a real urge to just grab a change of clothes and just go tomorrow... not show up for work, abandon my rental flat and possessions and never return.


Is this normal? I think about this a lot.

I have rewritten this post as what I want to type is very dark and people will think I am depressed/mental :p
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I did this in a recreational way to get away from my dad and his constant moaning but last week and I would just jump on the bike and go away for the day. We had a big argument and I'd had enough and moved out from real... Right into my mothers house haha!



But seriously try maybe picking up a hobbie that makes you want to get out of the house a little more? walking, running, cycling biking ect...
 
I sort of agreeing with Joshy. At least, in the respect that what people do when they are 'travelling' isn't of any worth. The vast majority of people who go travelling go on an extended holiday rather than really go and immerse themselves in another culture and gain another perspective on life.
Now, that's totally fine! I have no problem with that, and I have done such. However, don't dress it up and pretend you're off to better yourself. Your not, you're going to go to Bangkok, get hammered and try and have sex with Western girls or hookers.

I'm currently in the position of trying to decide where I want to move to in August/September time (I'm being a cliche and going to teach English). I'm in the lucky position of having no ties to anywhere (no mortgage, no wife, no kids, yadda yadda) plus I have the funds available to do it. However, the prospect is quite concerning but I truly believe I'll go and do it. The vast majority of people who think like the OP won't do anything of the sort and just sit about being bored and fed up with life because they are too scared to try anything different.
 
Joshy said:
I've had people suggest 'travelling' to me when I give them a bit of an insight into what I think and feel all the time. I always laugh at the suggestion, finding it utterly pathetic and pointless.

Why would you bother run? Surely just like everybody else out there who (even if it is very deep, deep down) hates their life, the number one issue is with the person that they are. You could go to the other side of the planet and pretend to be whoever you want to be, but deep down you will still be the person you have always been, the person that you despise. You are the sum total of your genetics and experiences and that will never, ever change. You can distract yourself with new people, surroundings and culture, but you can never change who you are no matter how much you try.

Also, if you cannot make a happy, comfortable living in one of the most propitious countries in the world that you have grown up in, what hope have you got 'making it' in some third world ****-hole who's language you do not know? Why you'd even bother is completely beyond me. If you feel that the world is **** enough that you must run away from comfortable surroundings do you think living in a mud hut with starving children is going to cheer you up? Please.

And what always makes me laugh at the thought is that no one ever, ever mentions the financial aspect. People talk about being able to start a new life on £50 or something ridiculous, but the sceptic in me thinks that this is either ******** or they have a larger safety net underneath them then they'd like to talk about. If I were to take the last £300 in my bank account with the thoughts of 'getting away' I'd:
*Almost certainly not be able to get out of Europe and
*Not Be able to do anything 'interesting'
*Literally stranded wherever I found myself. I, unlike the middle class children that invented this idea of a 'Gap year' do not have a daddy who can throw a few hundred quid at me on a whim to get me out of whatever stupid situation I have found myself in. Hell, if I did have such parents I probably wouldn't be in the position of considering doing such a stupid thing in the first place!!!

So no, I don't consider packing up and moving away. I consider life a dull, pointless, pathetic waste of time where I find myself effectively running out the clock until I either find a reason I want to live, or die. This is going to stick with me no matter where I go, so I opt to stay here, in the UK, a country that I know the language of, a country where I know people and I know the rules of the game, rather than chasing some thought that I'd be happier in a mud hut. Because poverty is bound to cheer someone who is depressed right up :).
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Wow dude, you've got some issues that need solving.
 
Joshy said:
I've had people suggest 'travelling' to me when I give them a bit of an insight into what I think and feel all the time. I always laugh at the suggestion, finding it utterly pathetic and pointless.

Why would you bother run? Surely just like everybody else out there who (even if it is very deep, deep down) hates their life, the number one issue is with the person that they are. You could go to the other side of the planet and pretend to be whoever you want to be, but deep down you will still be the person you have always been, the person that you despise. You are the sum total of your genetics and experiences and that will never, ever change. You can distract yourself with new people, surroundings and culture, but you can never change who you are no matter how much you try.

Also, if you cannot make a happy, comfortable living in one of the most propitious countries in the world that you have grown up in, what hope have you got 'making it' in some third world ****-hole who's language you do not know? Why you'd even bother is completely beyond me. If you feel that the world is **** enough that you must run away from comfortable surroundings do you think living in a mud hut with starving children is going to cheer you up? Please.

And what always makes me laugh at the thought is that no one ever, ever mentions the financial aspect. People talk about being able to start a new life on £50 or something ridiculous, but the sceptic in me thinks that this is either ******** or they have a larger safety net underneath them then they'd like to talk about. If I were to take the last £300 in my bank account with the thoughts of 'getting away' I'd:
*Almost certainly not be able to get out of Europe and
*Not Be able to do anything 'interesting'
*Literally stranded wherever I found myself. I, unlike the middle class children that invented this idea of a 'Gap year' do not have a daddy who can throw a few hundred quid at me on a whim to get me out of whatever stupid situation I have found myself in. Hell, if I did have such parents I probably wouldn't be in the position of considering doing such a stupid thing in the first place!!!

So no, I don't consider packing up and moving away. I consider life a dull, pointless, pathetic waste of time where I find myself effectively running out the clock until I either find a reason I want to live, or die. This is going to stick with me no matter where I go, so I opt to stay here, in the UK, a country that I know the language of, a country where I know people and I know the rules of the game, rather than chasing some thought that I'd be happier in a mud hut. Because poverty is bound to cheer someone who is depressed right up :).
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That's fine... As long as you're happy living in the same town you grew up in, going to the nearest college/university so you weren't out of your comfort zone and probably die in the same location, with the occasional trip to one of the med islands or the spanish british tourist hotspots then fine.
 
Ahleckz said:
I sort of agreeing with Joshy. At least, in the respect that what people do when they are 'travelling' isn't of any worth. The vast majority of people who go travelling go on an extended holiday rather than really go and immerse themselves in another culture and gain another perspective on life.
Now, that's totally fine! I have no problem with that, and I have done such. However, don't dress it up and pretend you're off to better yourself. Your not, you're going to go to Bangkok, get hammered and try and have sex with Western girls or hookers.

I'm currently in the position of trying to decide where I want to move to in August/September time (I'm being a cliche and going to teach English). I'm in the lucky position of having no ties to anywhere (no mortgage, no wife, no kids, yadda yadda) plus I have the funds available to do it. However, the prospect is quite concerning but I truly believe I'll go and do it. The vast majority of people who think like the OP won't do anything of the sort and just sit about being bored and fed up with life because they are too scared to try anything different.
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I agree with you there. I don't find the idea of going to the south east asia tourist trail remotely interesting either.

Go do something proper, like spend a year working somewhere, be it Australia, South America or somewhere else. Spend a month in the middle of nowhere (even in an english speaking country) with no british people around. Spend several years in one place and really make a home for yourself. Don't just go to the other side of the world and party with a load of britishers and think it's really "deep".

I.e. go and experience the local landscape and culture, rather than just do the same thing you do here but somewhere hotter and cheaper..
 
just dont go somewhere safe and boring see my previous post why go somewhere that has a similar lifestyle experience difference and take chances you can always come back if you dont die.. it amazes me people who go some where diferent for a western or similar lifestyle.. BE BOLD
 
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