Most of us have long dreamt of taking a long leave from work to travel the length and breadth of our country. Few of us even sit with friends every Saturday planning about it over drinks. Every time we are supposed to leave on Sunday morning and every time that fucking hangover kills it. And the week starts all over again.
Few of us has even done an agreement with our lives that we’ll never be able to do it, these are those people who sits inside their house looking outside the window with a 90ml Jack Daniel’s poured in a large base glass with exactly 5 ice cubes floating on the top. They sit there thinking about their good hostel days and those unplanned outings they used to do scaling over the tall barbed hostel walls.
Well, we are the same species where a 60 year old man is scaling Mount Everest and a 35 year old is still sipping whiskey in a bar and planning for the last 10 years to go on 10 day trip.
The reason is very simple – Fear!
Fear of leaving the comfort zone.
Fear of travelling alone.
Fear of one’s safety.
Fear of unknown places, unknown people and unknown routes.
and many more...
If I am right then you have just two options with you
- Get back to work and stop killing yourself over something you can’t do.
- Or, just do it for once and put an end to this constant question mark in your head.
Since you are still reading this article so I assume you are the ones who still think that point number two isn’t that bad an option for you. So now let’s talk about your fears one by one and what can you do about it.
See, since we were 3 years old, we were taught not to take any unnecessary risks and always play safe and quite frankly if you would have been absolutely happy doing what you are doing right now, then you won’t be on internet searching for such articles and certainly you won’t be reading this one either. And this is not even a risk, it’s all about leaving your comfort zone and going out in the unknown.
Trust me, from your balcony it do seems like an uphill task, but once you are on the road with a backpack, you’ll feel a sense of unexplainable dancing excitement under your belly. That’s the exact feeling that you were yearning for so many years.
The moment you step outside your house and catch the first bus will be the moment of “letting it go”.
While travelling with your family, you might have to plan things a bit in advance, but a few check points are enough for you to travel free minded:
- Search for the best route of travel in advance.
- A list of things you should carry along.
- Keep your peeps informed about your travel status.
- You might have to book hotel in advance. Or at least search for hotels well in advance.
Fear of safety – Well to be very honest, you are absolutely safe anywhere and everywhere unless you screw it up yourself. Keep your eyes, ears and mind open and stay with the crowd and avoid staying out in night.
If you have the fear of the unknown places and unknown persons then I don’t think you should be travelling anywhere, because it’s the people and places that makes this whole thing interesting. Just keep in mind that you should be careful of the friendly ones and even more careful with those who impresses you.
Now keep that glass of whiskey down and decide a destination you wanted to go for so long. List down the places to see there, those must-try restaurants and the things you should be doing there. Now calculate how many days you require to completely refresh your mind, and finally think of a bloody good reason of absence from the office and drop in a mail and even before your manager reaches office, hop on to a bus and disappear!
Most of the people live their lives as if there are 6 more left to live.
Remember it’s one, just one!
Make it count...
