Travel Dust
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Lisbon, Portugal (by acampm1)
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“Children are one third of our population and all of our future.”— Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981 (via emotional-algebra)
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San Antonio
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Shakespeare
The other night, I had a conversation with a young woman who had a number of decisions ahead of her, one of which is whether she would go to grad school or travel the world.
I told her to travel. Hands down. No excuse. Just go.
She sighed.
“Yeah, but…”
Never were more fatal words spoken.
Yeah, but… what about debt?
Yeah, but… what about my job?
Yeah, but… what about my boyfriend (or dog or car or whatever)?
“Yeah, but…” is pernicious. Because it makes it sound like we have the best of intentions when really we are just too scared to do what we should.
It allows us to be cowards, while sounding noble.
Most people I know who waited to travel the world never did. Conversely, plenty of people who waited for grad school or a steady job and traveled still did those things — eventually.
Be careful of the yeah-but. The yeah-but will kill your dreams.
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doreese reblogged this from traveldust and added:
THIS. I want to travel when I’m young— not when I’m all worn out and old from working for the past 25 years. Regret...
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