How much can you change in a year? It's been more than a year after my reflection in May 2017. I have my journal and blog to thank for keeping track of my reflections and goals of in the past, present and future. As with a lot of things in life, less is more. Here [...]
There are three types of people: those who travel, those who want to travel, and those who don't, can't, and never will. At 23, I'm not quite a kid and not old. People around me are getting jobs, making families, buying houses, etc. I often think to myself... what have I done with my life? [...]
2017 has been a year of revelations for me. The year where I finally understand all the things my parents tell me when they say, "I'll tell you when you're older." Things that had once been so clear to me aren't what I had expected them to be. People have changed. My perspectives have changed. [...]
I've always been fascinated by people who quit their jobs to live in another country, and would like to share stories of people who have created this path for themselves. Today, we have Ares' honest reflection on how he quit his job, moved to another country, and found work. At some point in our lives, [...]
I'm not good enough. There are days where negativity bullies its way in to haunt my mind, jabbing at my frustrations of things that I can't control. It leaves me helpless, my thoughts trapped in a never-ending cycle of discouragement. My inability to do things with my life that I want to because I am [...]
I left my life, my school, my friends, and everything I knew behind when I was eleven. My parents were refugees from Vietnam, escaping the mistreatment of the communists. They snuck away on a small boat and sailed for seven days on the open water of South China Sea. I was born in a refugee [...]
Wandering Outside the Box 