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I’m
braver than I think. We spend so much time and energy doubting ourselves,
listing the negatives and thinking about ‘what could go wrong’, it’s so easy to
forget just how strong we really are. If catching a flight to the other side of
the world doesn’t scream brave, I also faced many fears/anxieties whilst away.
The one thing that always stands out is the sky dive, I mean if jumping out of
a plane doesn’t scream bravery, I have no idea what does! There were so many
times that I wanted to back out, not just of the sky dive, but of the entire
trip! I spent the first week or so extremely homesick and it took a lot of
willpower not to cave in and book a flight home. But, I didn’t, I stuck it out
and saw everything I had planned to and for those wondering, I did jump out of
the plane (for the skydive, of course!)
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Nothing
grows from our comfort zone. This one is pretty self-explanatory. We all
love comfort, familiar faces, places and routines. A comfort zone is great,
it’s just so… comfortable? However, it’s when you step out of that comfort zone
that you get a glimpse of what you can really achieve, and how much of the
world there really is outside of your bubble.
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You don’t need to depend on others to pursue
your dreams. I quite often hear people saying that they want to go
somewhere, or do something, but can’t find anyone to go with. I was also pretty
guilty of this, I’d constantly be waiting for someone to agree to make plans
because the idea of doing it solo was, quite frankly, terrifying. Since my
trip, my opinion on this has completely changed. Solo travel is nowhere near as
scary as you think it is, wherever you want to go or whatever you want to do, I
guarantee there will be hundreds of others doing it alone too. When you meet
people travelling, you become very close, very quickly! I met one of my now
closest friends in Bali, she shares the same love for travel as me and a few
months later we were back on a plane taking another trip together!
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That
feeling over overwhelming terror makes me thrive. I’ve always been a little
bit of an adrenaline junkie/risk taker. That feeling when your hearts beating
out of your chest, your legs feel like jelly and nausea just completely takes
over. Don’t get me wrong, at the time it’s not fun, in fact it’s terrifying!
But the feeling afterwards? No words. It just makes me want to do it again and
again.
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Family/Home/Friends
are everything. Spending time away from the people that you love and your
home comforts makes you realise just how important they are to you. We are all
a little guilty of taking things/people for granted, quite often without even
realising it! Being thousands of miles away made me realise just how important
the people in my life are to me, both family and the friends that are like
family, and I will always be grateful for them. As well as that, I was just as
happy to have a clean kitchen to cook in and to not be sleeping on a bunk bed
in a room with 7 other people!! Sometimes, it’s just the little things that
matter!
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There is
so much of the world to see. It is so easy to get caught up in things,
working a full time job, doing our usual hobbies, going to our usual places,
it’s no wonder that we forget how big of a world is out there. Before I went
away, people would tell me that I would for sure get the ‘travel bug’ and no,
that’s not a sickness bug from dodgy food or drinking the tap water (although
that’s equally as common!) The travel bug is for sure a real thing, and I well
and truly caught it!! It’s quite simply, the desire to travel, travel and when
you’ve done that, travel some more! My time away and all of the amazing places
that I saw gave me a taste of what’s out there. We have such a huge, beautiful
world. There are so many places to see and so many people to meet out there,
you just have to make it happen! I now have a forever growing list of the
places I want to visit, I can’t wait to start ticking them off!
So for any of you contemplating booking that plane ticket
for a solo adventure, I’d say do it! I can promise that you won’t regret it.
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