[Homoviatro #1] Between an ordinary life and an wandering life

Between an ordinary life and an wandering life

- episode of Vietnam -

by Homoviatro @Smile.jay.

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Including major cities in Vietnam
exotic islands
the exploration of the longest cave in the world for four days and three nights.

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and feelings, thoughts, and experiences I gained during such traveling.
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Between an ordinary life and an wandering life - #1

Am I seeing things clearly, or closing my eyes not to see things clearly?

Homoviatro, a man setting off on a journey to find the meaning of life

All my wanderings began from the thoughts as follows:
is the life I am living at this moment the consequence of the choices I have made
or am I just living a life as time lets things flow?

Seeing fallen leaves floating in the water

I was afraid that my life might resemble the leaves.
A life without planning, like the fallen leaves, led by the flow of water and wind regardless of their own will, blocked by a stone and stuck around it, or sometimes just floating in the water.

However, instead, I want to live a life I chooseThen, what shall I do to live such life?

I had to find what I can choose and what I want to choose.
However, even though I took much time to think
I could not help but find that my scope of thoughts and experience were very limited.
It led me to think that I need to take time to find what makes me happy and who I really am.

This is how I went on a journey.

I wanted to push myself intentionally to meet people in a new environment and culture so that I could find myself and build my life that I have never expected.
Through people I meet during my journey and their thoughts, new culture, and new circumstances, I can have opportunities to think outside the box.
I can also encounter my true self not influenced by others during a journey taking time alone.

This way, I had meaningful time to experience many potentials in me and understand more about the world and others through my journey.

However, I was still not sure of what to choose for my life.

And, finally, I arrived in Stuttgart.
There, I had a friend who had come to Germany as an international student and now is working at Mercedes-Benz.
After listening to what brought him to Germany, I started my story.

I have many things that I like to do.

But sometimes I feel like I am a person who does not like anything.

I just think anything is fine when I choose what to eat or what to do as a hobby.

That is why I started this journey - to find out who I am and what I want to do.

Today is the last day of my journey and I might go back to Korea without having answers to my questions.

"Well, you may be such a person who likes everything."

What he said let me think that my struggle to find out only one thing that I have to choose or my thought that I have to choose something could be wrong assumptions resulted from my prejudice.
That day, I could finally find what made me think limited so far and at the same time I could really step forward from my limitations.

From that moment, I don't try to find what I like any more while traveling and gaining various experience any more. Rather, I try to make what I like more through traveling and gaining different experience.
This is, at least, the life I would like to live at this moment.
Anyways, after I realized this, I decided to live a life that flows where my heart leads me.

My ordinary life became a journey and such journey became my life.

After three years, I stopped running a guesthouse started with the funds I had raised in my twenties and operated very well and also quit my current work which was very stable. And I went to Vietnam and started to live there under a monthly lease.

That is, I gave up what I had at my late twenties and decided to live another season of life.

I still do not know whether this decision would be the worst choice I have ever made in my life or the best one after 10 years.

I do not know whether I now started to see things clearly or have been closing my eyes not to see things clearly.

But, I really want to live a unique life which only I can live out in my life.

I eagerly cheer and support my decision so that such decision can be a seed to cherish my life.

Special thank you to @ciceron
@ciceron help steemians to break language barrier.