Working your life away? BORING

I have met quite a few people in my life. A lot of people tell me that I seem older than my age, usually not my family members or close friends. More so, people I've just met. Somehow, with a child's mind and goofy personality, I manage to hold myself very maturely. I don't think this is because of my tight control over my emotions or lack thereof, but because, truly, I think I have some things just figured out.

By some things, I mean just one. And this is it. Traveling. Exploring. Following my dreams. Out of the people I've met, a good number of them are elderly folk. As we all know, a lot of true wisdom can only come with age. Conversations with the elderly are a vital part of the journey to wisdom collection. When I tell people of this age range my life plans of traveling and jumping into the unknown while I have the time and energy, they only ever applaud me. Telling me how they wish they dared to step outside their comfort zone. They wish they saw more of the world. They wish they hadn't been so focused on all of the wrong things for so long.

It's when I talk to other people my age, or a generation above me, about my plans, that I get the inevitable questions of "What's next?" "When are you going to get a job?" "Are you ever going to settle down?"

These questions are irrelevant for someone forever trying to live in the present moment. Yesterday and tomorrow don't exist. Only today. Only right now.

That's my answer for those of you wanting to climb the corporate ladder, with the hopes that one day you'll have enough money and time to finally see the world. Or follow your true dreams. I don't believe in holding out for the right moment; there will never be the right moment. There is only now. Now, while I'm young and creative and active. Now, while I have no children to take care of. Now, while I don't have a mortgage to pay. Now, while I can go on a mountain hike if I want to. Now, while I can drink and party all night long and get up the next day as if nothing happened. Now, while I can eat a ton of greasy street food, or sit criss-crossed in an ashram meditating, or run into the ocean at midnight to see the luminescences. These things might not be appealing at 70 years old after retirement.

Get out and explore now, youth never comes back. Money? A job? You can find that anywhere for the rest of your life.