Getting Lost.
It's been a while since I came back from Australia, the only country I've travelled alone. It'll take a few posts for me to cover everything that I did there and that there is to know, from whatever I could learn in four and a half months but let me start with some general philosophy. The best thing that can probably happen to you when in a different country is get lost. You can have the worst experience of your life at that point or the best one; either way, you'll learn much more than you could walking around with your organized plan trying to fulfill your to do list. For once, you'll see the place with your eyes wide open, you'll see people for who they are and in all the adrenaline rush and your guards down, you'll see a whole new side of yourself. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't mean to mislead you into a trap where you get yourself harmed. ,I mean to tell you to be okay with letting go of that carefully mapped out plan of yours for once, to...