The stifling security blanket of a 9-to-5 office job has been burned in favour of unemployed nakedness (figurative).
Tickets bought. Hanoi, Vietnam. Departure less than a month away; sitting still is no easy feat.
It's all on us now.
Doing something out of the ordinary is always the way to go. 'Ordinary' is not a positive adjective.
What the majority of people do the majority of the time is most likely wrong.
That's what made me come to Japan when I was 18 and attend high school. All I wanted after that was a visa so I could move here permanently. UK = ordinary = dull.
2 weeks after landing my first employer went bankrupt. Found another which lasted a fair while - a startup company - but that ship was sunk by those dastardly Lehman Brothers.
Threw caution to the wind and worked on building a company from scratch. 5 years later, it's up and running... An enjoyable challenge which ended in success.
... but I'm bored.
Met a great girl during this period. Something of an oddity. Heaps of independence and very similar interests. Snapped her up pretty quickly and put a ring on her finger... while riding an elephant in Sri Lanka.
Now.... Here we are. Both in relatively successful jobs but feeling like there must be something more out there.
Did a couple of Ironman triathlons - kept me busy for a couple of years...
But why are 5 days of every 7 spent hiding from the sun?
Why are we surrounded by people obsessed with money, brands and other such vacuous exploits?
How can we change it?
......
How about just pushing the 'reset' button?
Everything goes wrong, we can always pick up where we left off in Tokyo.
Everything goes right and we might end up with an entirely new way of life.
Time to roll the dice. Quit our jobs. Cancel our apartment contract. Sell our stuff. Buy some bikes. Plan the first 3 months of a 12+ month trip, and just go wherever the wind takes us.
30 years of life have convinced me that anything worth doing is going to scare the hell out of you.
.......
Throwing things away is always something of a bittersweet experience. Throwing away this many things is like an ascetic practice. Shaving your head, scrubbing your body; removing all unnecessary clutter from your life.
Because that's what it is - clutter.
The more you own, the more you have to lose. The bigger your estate, the smaller the risks you are willing to take.
Things get old, things break, things get stolen. The more attachments you have, the more likely you are to live in fear.
........
So... 30 years old, a good understanding of how the white collar world works... and choosing to leave it all behind to find something more rewarding.
Had enough of being a sheep... Grinding away for 5 days a week to earn money which get wasted on Friday and Saturday night in a frantic effort to forget that Monday is just a couple of days away.
It's time for a change.
A new chapter.
But to open a new chapter you first need to close the old one.
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