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fter a few months of traveling in the Far East, alone. I want to share with you …
I hope you’ll like it
Traveling alone. Traveling alone, it means doing what’s in your head. Whatever comes to you and flows at that moment. Without giving any account to anyone but yourself.
Traveling alone means getting to know new people. And spend time with them at leisure.
It means starting to talk to anyone you think is nice, going out for a walk, a trek or just a beer, talking about life and personal things, experiences from the trip and family and friends.
It’s about connecting with a person in seconds and feeling like he’s been your friend for years, but after a few days (or even a few hours) you probably don’t see him alive anymore.
Get to know new people every day, and try to convince those who really have fun with them to tailor their route to yours. Stroll alone to enter alone in the restaurant and see a table of Israelis and join them.
It is to hear someone speak Hebrew in the street, stop him, develop a conversation and then meet him in the evening for a beer.
It’s about traveling with people from the Netherlands, Germany, the US and from where not, and even with locals.
To travel alone is to decide that you are tired of the people with you and go on a trek alone. It’s to take your headphones and notebook and sit on the riverbank and draw or write.
It’s to decide that you deserve a quiet day, and not leave the hostel … just sit with yourself and do nothing.
Traveling alone is learning. Learn what you want from yourself, the trip and the people around you.
It is to try to understand what is good for you and what is not.
It is to learn to cook, to get along with finances; What I’m worth spending and what’s not.
It is about learning about culture, history, language and customs that are completely different from ours and sometimes maybe a bit similar.
It is to speak a foreign language for days without uttering a word in Hebrew.
This is to learn from people you meet with tips for further hike and also for life.
It is learning to manage in tin places and on the other hand also knowing how to pamper yourself sometimes and still being able to save.
Traveling alone is learning to connect with people and feel comfortable with them even if you only know them for a few hours.
It is to overcome the shyness and start a conversation with a person you just knew. Even with just someone sitting next to you on the bus.
It’s about learning to stand on time and not miss buses,
To know when to give up and when not, to know when to run and when to have some rest.
To travel alone is to learn when it’s fun and good to sit with people, to travel with them and spend time together, and on the other hand when you need some quiet and time for yourself.
It’s about learning to love spending some quality time with yourself.
It’s about learning to trust people you just knew, but also not trusting anyone but yourself. It’s to understand that being a woman has many drawbacks, and that you have to be twice as careful.
Traveling alone involves spending hours in video calls with friends and family from home.
It is to miss the food of the house and try to make it yourself
(Unsuccessfully), and lower the tear of the grub every time you watch this whole game.
To travel alone is to learn to appreciate yourself and know that you are omnipotent! You don’t need anyone to get along. Knowing that no matter how steep the climb - you can raise it. And take it off without rolling down.
That means you don’t need anyone to tell you where to go and where not, what to eat and where to sleep - because you know what’s best for you.
Traveling alone is to get lost a million times even though you have a map in hand, but in the end - get where you need to (even if it means you’ve asked a million people along the way).
I went again, but this time without a map.
You went for advice on a place you spent only a few days as if you were a local.
Traveling alone is being sick and asking for help from the hostel owner.
It’s about taking care of yourself the most in the world, because you know that if something happens, there is no one to help you
What you want to do what isn’t, what’s important to you and not.
Stand up for yourself and not give up on the things you want and care about, even if it means doing them alone.
It is to do things voluntarily and even if they are not simple …
I learned to ignore a first impression. I am with the people I thought I would most not connect with and who were most unsuitable for my lifestyle, I enjoyed and laughed a lot with them.
Traveling alone is not easy. It takes a lot of courage and willpower. Sometimes you feel lonely and just want someone sitting next to you at the hostel, because you are already hard to make the move … Sometimes you find yourself crying and just want to buy a ticket back home.
But despite all the contexts, you enjoy the most in the world! You see crazy landscapes and do crazy things in life you can’t do. You allow yourself to fly even though you are afraid of heights, and you allow yourself to shout even though you do not want to be heard.
You learn, start, get better and get stronger.
You are free, you live.