The Travel Dream.

How many of you have that travel bug inside you!? I am sure quite a few especially after Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani gave the push to people :p well I have had the bug inside me for quite a few years now. Some people like to go on holiday trips, some on vacations and some just want to wander from here and there trying to explore the world. Well of course most of us cannot live those dreams cause of family responsibilities, work commitments and majorly cause just like me you just have your pockets filled with dreams and no money :p well what do you do in such situations?!

People who want to just travel will do what they love and not think about much other things.For them just enough money for getting them from one place to another is more than sufficient. They don't need to save for the future nor do they need to worry about it. People often categorise them as 'Gypsies' or  'Hippie' which are both wrong terms to use as they are more of a tribe and culture and not adjectives :p
I personally have traveled to quite a few places and explored a few destinations but all holiday trips none the less FUN! I believe key to a good travel no matter what type of travel,is good company! When you have a real good company it's suddenly not about the destination that you are going to see but the journey of how you reach there! The journey will leave you with a lot of amazing memories,and sometimes some people who might change your life forever! I have always had the pleasure of having the best company that I could possibly ask for while on such trips!

And it was during these trips that I fell in love with the process of travel and exploring new things! 

 

Amongst the places I have visited I personally din't expect myself to fall so much in love with Orrissa and Kerala! Both having a huge and beautiful culture to explore! I came across quite a few "hippie" types of ppl :p on my frequent trips to Goa(we all have those don't we? :p) and the Land of the Gods..Himachal Pradesh! And I told myself that "one day I am gonna live this dream! And not just visit places but to live there and explore them and move onto some other place!"
But again that brings me back to where I started about having no money :p

I recently got in touch with a famous travel blogger Siddhartha Joshi..check out his site http://www.sid-thewanderer.com..I exchanged a few emails asking for guidance as to where and how to start..him being very gentle and quite actively replied to help me out and all he could say was..In the initial phase you have to work some job and save money to kick start your dream and then maybe choose the obvious ways to make money by travel writing  or selling travel photographs..but most important thing which he had to say was to just get out and explore and share your stories! The money will follow later on!
People do all kinds of stuff to sustain their travel plans! Savings,backpacking,blogging,talent shows, join some organisation that deals in the travel field. Also there are options available to teach English courses in different countries, organic farming volunteer work etc.
 Me being an immense lover of music have come across certain musicians majorly guitarists who perform on the streets,it's called Busking..and they collect whatever money they get to travel. 

Check out Marcello Calabrese busking some famous covers. And also have a look at traveler/songwriter/musician Owen Campbell in his audition for Australia's got talent. 

This is the kind of passion that's needed to fulfil your travel dream! Money is just secondary! 

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Cheers! ;)

Passion or Profession?!

Its been what? 3 years since my last post! and on public demand I am Back. well not really the public demand but cause i have lots of time to kill :p and the reason being unemployment.

Dont we all have that phase, that time in our lives where we have no fucking clue as to what now?

"yeh toh kar liya! ab aage kya?"

i have decided to write about the one of the biggest dilemma in life which i am sure most of you will agree to have had at one point of time!

whether to follow your Passion or to pursue some Profession!

lucky are those who can and have combined and made their passion their profession!

Not all of us are from those few. so we gotta make a choice. A choice thats gonna define who we will be in the future and what kind of a life are we gonna lead. 

People often think of having a passion for travel,music,writing,cooking,etc. But do all of us have what it takes to follow your passion? cause lets face it the pay for a newbie in any such creative(or non creative) field isnt the one that can give you a lifestyle that you may want. maybe that is the reason why people choose to take a job or run some commercial business and try to secure a good and comforting future. There is nothing wrong in doing so. infact i think it takes a lot of courage to give up on your dreams and follow something else. some do it for the money some for family and some for both.

you keep convincing your self that someday you are going to quit everything and chase that dream of yours! live that passion of yours but more often than not..you dont!

some people live their lives happily with the path they chose and some people live filled with regrets!

regret of not quitting that job and traveled the world! regret of not taken time for music lessons! regret of not cooking for others! 

regret of not writing something that touched their lives!

I personally think that everyone has to choose between these two in their lives and trust me its never too late to change your choice ever! if you have chased your passion long enough there always time to settle down and the same for getting of your asses and do what you love! 

i mean why do we have to live like others have! people always say that 20-30 is the age of setting a career and its very difficult to jump between careers after that! TRUE! you may have double the responsibilities double the pressure but there is never any rule against it! no one knows what they want to do in life,what to do with their life! thats when motivational posters like the one from left comes to help :p  you try out different things,learn from your mistakes and then eventually someday you figure it out! life is just run on Trial and Error base.

my advice would be that whatever profession you work..you gotta find the passion and if you really cant then there should be no harm in quitting and finding it somewhere else! everyone should have the freedom to do it and more importantly everyone should have the friggin guts to do it.

Many people like me i am sure are uncertain about what road to take ahead no matter at what age they are.

people often say that uncertainty is bad in life! i say if you arent uncertain how will you try new things out?

and never to think that your passion for something is not worth following cause you may not be good at it or you wont be able to pursue it cause remember "People who are Crazy enough to think they can change the world..Are the Ones who Actually do" -Steve Jobs (probably the best quote from the shitty Jobs movie :/ but i ll control my feelings about such shitty movies:p )

so be Uncertain, be Passionate and Live your dream while your still alive!

untill next time then ;)