Tinder and Instagram bio of every fucking millennial:
✈️🌴🌞❤️🍕
Live to travel
Good vibes only
Digital nomad
World citizen
Loves pizza
Give me a fucking break you boring sluts, is there anything original about you, other than your dental records? But let’s not get sidetracked, I’m here to talk about travelling.
Most people like to travel, take holidays in exotic destinations and see new places, but I don’t consider that as being a traveller. I think traveller is someone who is more on the move than at home, and taking a two week holiday twice a year is not that. No matter if you dream about travelling, if you ain’t doing it, you ain’t a traveller. Just like I’m not a millionaire even if I feel like it inside, my bank statement shows the truth.
I’ve always liked the idea of travelling and seeing new places around the world, but it’s been really important for me to have a solid home base. I’ve never ever had the desire to backpack through Europe for months or move to Asia for the whole winter.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot during this year, when technically I could do what I do from anywhere in the world.
I pride myself in knowing myself quite well, and I do question myself and my actions often to make sure I’m not fooling myself and just sticking to what is familiar because I’m used to it. Digging deep on what I want and need in life. While I have played with the idea of being away from home for longer periods, the more I travel, the stronger the feeling of needing my home base in Finland is.
Don’t get me wrong, I am always super excited and intrigued by visiting a new country, seeing the new places, tasting new foods and getting to witness a small part of a culture different from mine. But if I were to live as a digital nomad, I think I would be miserable. Travelling would loose its excitement, I would feel lost and I would miss having a real home where I put down my roots. I need and want to use my favourite coffee mug, know that I have my assortment of teas and noodles in the cupboard, be surrounded by all my clothing options, to take a shower and pee in my own bathroom, and to sleep in my own luxurious bed.
They say that life starts outside of your comfort zone, and I think that is a load of bullshit. Sure it’s very important to try new things and push the limits, but that only makes me boomerang back to my comfort zone . I know what I like and what I need, and the opposite, I know what I don’t like and need. Travelling only strengthens the views I already had of myself and my life.
I really do not understand when people say that travelling to a certain place changed them as a human and now they are completely different. That is such a foreign (eh eh, see what I did there?) concept to me and I’m baffled by it. Travelling does open your eyes, broadens your views and makes you more aware, but I don’t see how it would change me as a person. I think people who are forever changed by travel, didn’t know themselves to begin with, or are influenced by outside forced very easily.
I will probably always want to travel on a regular basis, but not for too long at a time, and I want to cool down at home in between. It’s been almost three weeks since I’ve been home now and I miss it. I miss my own bed, I miss my sauna and bathroom, I miss the safety of home and I miss knowing that my family is only 100 kilometres away from me.
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