Quote: (02-19-2016 08:19 AM)Palo_alto Wrote:
I met incredible people in hostels / couchsurfing / hitchhiking.
I helped the poor, rescued animals, volunteer in hospitals,etc...
I got my family back
Now, I am truly happy and living the moment. I stopped thinking in the meaning of life and the future and just enjoy the present.
This is an interesting perspective.
I feel like I did the reverse here; I did a lot of low budget travel, volunteered, worked in hostels, hitch-hiked and spent a lot of time with different people.
Now I work solidly and distanced myself from friends, I've earnt more money in the last year then I ever have before but I'm miserable.. i've become detached and emotionally numb, you have to in order to build that discipline but I think back a couple of years to when I was living a very opposite life and sure I was poorer but life was fulfilling.
I guess it's all part of the ebb and flow of life, you have to experience the polarities in order to understand and find balance.