What happen when you focus on having a good job, a stable life, and when I say “stable life” I mean to have a schedule every day, a plan for a year or almost a year, a house (or home), your personal things you don´t want to leave because it is part of your life, a good salary that gives you the confidence you can pay for all things you own or you would like to own, a partner (boyfriend, girlfriend) in your city or close and she/he Is waiting for you every day to spend the rest of the day together, a lovely pet that you have to feed, clean and give a lot of love, etc. etc…
BUT
What happen when you focus on traveling for a years and years, and when I say “years and years” I mean when you leave your country trying to learn another language, meet new people, learn new culture, traditions and discover the wonderful things the world has to offer us. And then we don´t want to come back home for a «stable life».
So….
A work lover can enjoy the “stable life” especially if you have a boyfriend, girlfriend, wife or husband, maybe we can include a pet, because they need love and attention.
- Salary stability: you can have a budget to plan one or two weeks of vacation a year, to pay your house, to buy a new car, clothing, jewellery etc…
- Schedule per month or year: this people knows what they are going to do next month or next six months, they know where they will be and how they will be. Some people feels good knowing all this questions for the future.
If you change your life and stop working a lot you will see the next results:
- Meeting new people: all kind of people. People who loves parties, culture, traditions, learn and people who can speak two, three, four, five, six languages and this differences between their life and our life makes us to start loving our trips.
- Less dependences in things: This is one of my best feelings when I travel, is amazing how different is when you travel and you don´t have that beautiful shoes, your makeup, your car, jewellery, expensive clothing etc… traveling around the world you realize you don´t need all this things also because you see how people live without it and they are happy without it.
- Open mind: is incredible how you can open your mind when you are traveling and you meet people with different religions, education, culture, language, sexual preferences, ideas about life etc… it makes you growing and accept all people because you discover they are happy with their life. And they respects you as a person with different opinions and ideas as well.
- Finding your love: when I think in this aspect of traveling, it makes me feel in love about life and travel. To meet new people with different skin colour, different ideas, different style of life, different fiscal aspects etc… All this differences makes you to have a hope that you can find a boy or girlfriend who will be as different as similar as you. May be not the perfect love but the complement of your life.
- Interest of learning: each time you travel you learn something new but and you will become an addicted to learn something, for example people who always takes Spanish lessons when they travel, taking dance classes, cooking class, history classes etc… each activities you do when you are traveling is a signal of learning. Don’t stop!
We don´t want to say to be a work lover or travel lover is bad or good, we just want to show how different can be our life with this two positions. And we need a balance between them.
Guatemala is the perfect place to do these balance, you can plan one two, tree, four weeks, months or year of travel and you will enjoy your life as it will be the last trip of your life.
Volcanos, mountains, beaches, culture, traditions, religion, parties, wonderful lakes, good food, good drinks (Ron, beer, wine etc) all traditional drinks and international drinks, Spanish classes, Salsa classes etc…
Remember:
We can change the plan but no the trip.
Travel with safety in mind.