My heart wont' stop beating. It's nearly 3 am and I'm wide awake even though I need to be at work at 8am. I think I'm finally going to do it, I'm packing up my shit and leaving by February. I'm thinking that I'll do a 1 year contract teaching English in Korea then it's off to India to help build schools, then to Thailand to volunteer in an orphanage then I'll see the rest of South East Asia. Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Phillippines, China.... you name it I'll see it. My original plan was to leave in 18 months after the 2010 winter olympics in Vancouver but I don't know if I can wait that long. I wanted to pay off my debt and save $16K and just straight travel. If I do this thing in Korea, my flight is paid for, my accomodation is paid for, plus I'll be making money so I can continue to pay off what I owe. FUCKING GLORIOUS. I thought I would do it alone, but it looks as though J is coming with. I know I don't know him very well, but we seem to be in the same boat and we seem to be in the same mindset. We're both sick of the bullshit that is city life, we both just want to experience all the wonderful things this world has to offer, I think it will work out pretty good. I need a life changing experience, I need to know that there's more to life than working 8-5 and buying a house, buying a car, getting married and having a couple of kids and living a life of routine. I can't do it. I want to live in a tent on a beach and listen to the waves as I fall asleep each night. I want to live in a tree house deep in the jungle and wake up breathing the freshest air I have ever encountered. I just want to get back to the roots of human existence, I want to go somewhere where it doesn't matter how big your house is or how fast your car is or how many Coach purses you own. I just want to be in a place where the only things that matter are happiness, health, love, good food and good company. Perhaps I'm too much of a dreamer or an idealist. All I want to do is find my utopia.
Listen to Matt Mays.
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