Somewhere To Write

Posted by Anonymous on 2015/06/05 under Uncategorized

All my life I’ve been lead to believe that you finish your education and you get a job. You then get relationship, and a car and a house, and then kids, and so on and so on. I have a job, a house and a car. But I hate my boss, and I mean justifiable hate. He is egotistical, chauvinistic, homophobic, and just plain discriminatory. But, at least after working for him has made me discover what I really want to do. About two months ago, I walked into my travel agent wanting to go on a Contiki to South Korea. I left with two contiki’s booked for South Korean & Japan. The contiki’s will take a month in total, and to attend them I’ll have to quit my job. I was instantly happy. No more “him” forever. Then I got thinking, “Do I like my life here” – It’s okay. I grew up here, and I share a house with my high school friend. I have a car, and on-again-off-again relationship. My parents are here, and I’ve never been away from them for more then 2 weeks at a time. I’ve never flown internationally, hell only last month was my first time on a plane. Then I saw an ad on youtube. Teaching English in China. I though about it for a three weeks. I actually believe myself to be a “stagnantly impulsive”. I understand that those two words contradict each other but what I mean is, I’ll think about something in the back of my head for a long time, and then one day (BOOM) I’ll just do it.
So, I did it, I registered and paid for the course that will gain my certificate to teach English over-seas. I’m not an English teacher, I have zero teaching experience, but I want to travel. I want to live over-seas, I want to look back on my life and say things like “I did that”, “I was there” and “I love’d every minute”.
My point of all this is; Meeting the wrong person, can put you on the right path, or at least get you to consider a path you might never have considered before. I might come back from my contiki and continue to live in my home town for another 10 years, or I might go teach in China, or Vietnam, or Switzerland, or Italy.
But, I can – and that’s the point.

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