What exactly the trip around the world has taught me

Eight months ago Ksu and I came back from the trip around the world. We have visited a lot of countries, all the continents, except Antarctica. Ten months of living on islands, in different hotels and houses, seeing the world wonders and the famous places. Yes, it was the lifetime adventure.

But the most valuable benefit of this trip I figured out the only now. We took our first trip abroad since our return to the US. And just here I have found the priceless gift that I got. That worldwide trip has taught me to live. What did I do before? Yes, I lived as well. But mostly I was waiting for something that would happen in the future: the next trip, the next adventure.

When we were talking with our friends about our upcoming trip to Bermuda, they asked us where it is? What are we going to see there? What are we going to do on each day? What is our plan? And we had no idea! It’s just a trip, just a few days of our lives. And this is not satiety, nothing like that. I still enjoy a lot! But the point is what sitting on the patio and watching the ocean, and the sun makes me feel almost the same that I feel when I go to work under the rain. It makes me feel alive.

We all work hard in some ways. And we want to breath out and relax. But the difference starts when we separate events of being on vacation and being home. We think about holidays like about another world, something magical that will cure us. But as soon as we come back, we start feeling miserable. And this is the main point that has changed in my mind. I stopped to divide my life on work and vacation. It’s all my life. I can spend the whole day sitting in the hotel room, and I don’t feel guilty about not watching something around or getting a new experience. And I am 100% sure that I will be in the same mood on the first workday on Monday in the morning as I feel right now when I see the sun and the ocean with an incredible color here in Bermuda. Because it’s not about things around me, it’s about some changes that happened inside my mind. It’s about being alive and living in the moment.