As a digital nomad of over 15 years – don\u2019t get me wrong, travel is great.
\nBut it\u2019s overrated. <\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t magically fix all your problems. Make you special. Or automatically give your life purpose.<\/p>\n
However many people DO experience a magic in travel.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not from the travel itself, per se. From buying a plane ticket, landing in a new country, trying to speak a new language, or having adventures with new friends. <\/p>\n
The magic comes from what it\u2019s NOT.<\/p>\n
In taking a break from the deadened autopilot that\u2019s become your life.<\/p>\n
A break from doing shit you don\u2019t want to, day in and day out. <\/p>\n
A break from following the same routines, the same rules, inhabiting the same roles…over and over again. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a momentary disruption to the layers of deadness you\u2019ve encased yourself in. <\/p>\n
And in that, you feel a glimpse of the aliveness that your life could be.
\nYou catch a taste of what life could be like without the endless wall of cages you cram yourself in. <\/p>\n
Of the infinite possibility that actually lays before you. Of what you could experience. Of who you could be. <\/p>\n
But it\u2019s just a taste. <\/p>\n
And a surface-level one at that.<\/p>\n
It may feel like a giant disruption to your existence – but without an actual, deeper re-orientation of your entire way of living – it\u2019s just barely scratching the surface of the Aliveness you truly are. <\/p>\n
And then one week\/month\/year later and you\u2019re catching a flight home, back to life as you know it. <\/p>\n
Daydreaming about the next time you\u2019ll get to catch another glimpse of your true nature. <\/p>\n
Or maybe daydreaming about becoming a digital nomad yourself, so you could travel 24\/7 and make it your lifestyle. <\/p>\n
That would be the answer, right? Endless beaches and freedom and aliveness?<\/p>\n
No, it\u2019s not. <\/p>\n
Anyone who manages to travel long enough – especially if you have to work while doing so – knows that it\u2019s not long before the routines, rules, and deadness sets back in.<\/p>\n
Before new cages come along that you shove yourself back into.
\nThat\u2019s because travel, as radical of a shift as it may seem, is really just an external, surface level change. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s just a change in window dressing. <\/p>\n
The aliveness that you caught a glimpse of isn\u2019t in the new country, language, or culture.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not in ANYTHING external to you. <\/p>\n
In fact, it IS you. <\/p>\n
The natural you that exists when everything that ISN\u2019T you gets stripped away: the conditioning, the routines, the rule-based living, the \u201cshoulds\u201d.<\/p>\n
And you\u2019re able to do more than just catch a glimpse of it while traveling.<\/p>\n
You can learn to live there. On a moment to moment basis. <\/p>\n
Continuously choosing YOU over the programming that\u2019s been instilled in you. <\/p>\n
Leading to a quality of life that is truly unimaginable. <\/p>\n
(And at the same time, what you\u2019ve ALWAYS sensed you were meant for.)<\/p>\n
A life in which you no longer need travel – or anything external to you – to inhabit the aliveness that you know you are at your core. <\/p>\n
Truly being at home, no matter where in the world you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a digital nomad of over 15 years – don\u2019t get me wrong, travel is great.
\nBut it\u2019s overrated.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t magically fix all your problems. Make you special. Or automatically give your life purpose.<\/p>\n
However many people DO experience a magic in travel.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not from the travel itself, per se. From buying a plane ticket, landing in a new country, trying to speak a new language, or having adventures with new friends.<\/p>\n
The magic comes from what it\u2019s NOT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jaeminyi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pexels-jaxson-bryden-2040627.png?fit=1400%2C1045&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79mZF-Gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jaeminyi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}