DreamTrip
of a
Lifetime
Quitting jobs, a one-way ticket, no travel plans, and nothing to tie us back!
Investing in memories, not materials...
November 8, 2016
Why? Don't you love each other enough to get married?
We were called crazy and stupid for not following 'the norm'. After 3 and a half years together, and at the
mature ages of 24 and 27, we wanted to go live out our dreams. We were looked down upon for leaving a
stable, good-paying job, for 'wasting' our money, for not dreaming of getting married, buy a house, and bear
children together. However, that is Society's Dream, not ours. We had discussed our priorities in life:
Both wanting to travel the world, feel free, and that, is what truly made us fall in love with each other more.
Living in a car, sleeping at strangers' homes, spending days on end without a shower, eating strange food, saying hello in different languages, getting drenched and walking for miles to view a lookout, working on farms and physically getting exhausting, financially just enough, walking in restaurants just to be able to wash our dirty hands, tomorrow's unknown... ... that is what makes us feel rich. People may think we are on some sort of holiday, with luxury dinings, paying for attractions, being tourists, a cosy bed, nothing bad happens, enjoying our never-ending account... but we are really just living our normal lives, discovering new customs and experiencing always on the move. Realistically, 10k can really get you far enough if you want, but only if you REALLY want.
"We were called crazy and stupid"
Can we really live
WITH each other?
Why now? Why not? Why wait? Why settle? Why aren't you scared of what might happen? You don't really know the meaning of commitment...
AARGGGHHHH..
Do you think it did not pass through our minds when we were sitting downtogether, booking that flight ticket? Booking our first few days hostel together, can we really live with each other? Do we really love
"Sweat and tears after a great walk sounds more exciting."
each other so much that we are risking thousands of money to roughen up our lives on the other side of the world? It is not a merry-go round. You cannot just quit. But if we share the same dream, why quit on your dream? Is it really that different between responsibilities of getting married, and traveling?
Why does media emphasize only on the thought that we can only fulfill happiness by doing what the rest of society does? Well, it is expected that retirement is the time to do what you want. And even then, aren't you too old to travel the world? Too old to fall in love? People will say, you should have done something more important in your life, you know, when you were much younger? And why should a couple only express their love through marriage, does he not love me if he doesn't want to marry me? Am I not good enough for her to not want children with me?
Unfortunately, sleeping in a car or on the floor sounds better. The beach breeze against our faces
when you wake up in the morning is more dramatic. Sweat and tears after a great walk sounds more
exciting. Moving from house to house, never settling down, and rarely unpacking your bag is more
thrilling. Seeing over a hundred mountains, thousands of beaches, millions of new faces and
religions, is more mind-blowing, than the same person you meet at the grocery store, or that mother
you come across when you drop off your child to school, every... single... day.
Don't get me wrong, you CAN have the best of both worlds, but it hurts us when people say we are selfish to leave families behind, loosing contact with friends, and distancing ourselves from everyone. Everyone has his own choice, and we preferred to invest our future together in making memories, me and him, his and hers, where ever in the world that will be, rather than investing it in other people's dreams.