From where I’m from, people like to have a plan. They need to plan their day, their career, their holiday, their personal desires, their retirement, their entire life.
They plan because it’s the way we are taught there: everything needs to be neat, organised, logical, coherent, and to match trends & beliefs.
It’s way too much pressure and stressful to follow a plan. And it can lead to frustration, blame, lack of confidence, or insecurity.
But why do they need to plan then?
Planning is actually to take less risks possible while we walking through life. Risk is the enemy number 1 where I’m from. You need to fit into a box, and you need to tick a maximum of boxes.
But if you take risks, you are judged and called crazy, weirdo, naive or stupid.
(Of course, I’m not talking about looking for danger or taking irrational risks just to prove something. Any extreme is good.)
But what if risks are an inherent part of our life anyway? Why should we absolutely erase all risks? Why ‘risks’ have such a bad overtone? What for?
We are all different, with different needs, desires, interests, mindsets, passions, and risk appreciation, analysis and threshold. And it’s just awesome.
Thanks to the solo expedition, I’m busy deconstructing these beliefs while traveling. In this specific overland life, I refuse to follow a plan, a route, a fixed itinerary. And if you follow me since Europe, you know it already.
Traveling all over Africa for instance. But if I don’t want to? What if I change my mind on route? What if I want to explore a country more than once? To please who? To prove what? Bullshit.
I chose freedom over planning.
And I chose resilience to marry my challenges.
I do believe risks are inherent to our life anyway -consciously or unconsciously- and essential tools to get to know who we truly are deep inside.
‘If you don’t risk it, you don’t live it’.
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