Can I ever be a stranger
A Life / / December 19, 2019
I am often asked whether I'm going to always live a life of a nomad - always traveling and working remotely. Sometimes the questions are a little different. For example, where I'm going to go on, or is it wise to constantly travel, when almost any city in the world can remain for permanent residence. Or ask whether I thought a couple of years to return to Brazil and start to live the old life - as if nothing had changed.
Sometimes I and my young people ask each other how long we can be satisfied with such a way of life. There are a million amazing opportunities that are open to you when to work you only need internet, and you can live anywhere in the world.
And we enjoyed every minute. But we also miss our families, think about the career, friendships, issues, diseases, money and many other things that are part of the lives of strangers (as, indeed, any part of life people). Perhaps one day lifestyle of nomads will not be able to make us happy.
In this life, nothing lasts forever. Who knows what will happen tomorrow?
Every time I think about it, I come to the same conclusion: life will show. Today I am really happy to be a stranger, who only need a laptop and internet to work. But I have no idea about what prepares me tomorrow. I am changing every day. My thoughts, outlook on life, habits - changes everything. And I do not have anything that would make me sit in one place, or oppose change. I'm not afraid of me, I'm not afraid to become another.
But there is a question that can be unpleasant: where it is, the notorious stability, in human life, which is constantly moving from place to place? As my experience, the answer is found where we least expect to find it: in the changes themselves.
The road on which we walk today is not paved with perennial habits. We have abandoned the conventional and ever imposed society patterns, when they realized that we are free, and life on given the track "home - work - family" and laborious moving up the career ladder should not determine our future. At least, simply because we do not want.
We want to think and choose what to do and where to go, and not just live as accepted and not accepted by us.
And the fact that we have no instructions that would tell us how we should behave, where to live, whether to have children should, when we should get married or buy a car, makes us free.
And due to the fact that we do not go the beaten track we live at random. Constantly experimenting, testing, work or not. If so, and it will make us happy - well, it's great. Then we try something new. If that does not work, then we will have to deal with the consequences, and then put forward a new hypothesis in our game.
Live guesswork is not so easy. You have to constantly keep an eye on, to plan each step, because you do not go on general road. You have to think about it as soon as you wake up, and for a moment before you fall asleep.
Like everyone else, I do not know what can make me happy in a year, five or ten years. The only thing I know for sure is that the life of a nomad, who briefly stops in different parts of the world, now I can be called happy. I know that even if I ever yet dare to return to Brazil to their former way of life, I will not be tied to this place until the end of his days. I have always been free - as, indeed, and all of you.
Is it possible for life to move from place to place, working at the same time on the Internet? Of course. But remember that over time, your life will change. It does not matter who you are: the reclusive office, which runs from 9:00 to 18:00, or a person who travels constantly. Remember that even a short period of time can change your entire life.
And of course, you can stay up to a nomad until this lifestyle continues to please you.
You can be anyone, anywhere, if it makes you happy.
My life has taught me that nothing is final. One day I wake up and think, "I want to stay here." And I really could just stay here. Because I know that it is never too late and is never so that it was impossible to change anything. I know I can change something in your life, if one day I feel that I am satisfied with not all.
Questions, fears and insecurities will never disappear from our lives, but we need them, because they are part of the change process. We should not live in a place that we do not like. We should not be engaged in the work that we do not like. We should not be surrounded by people with whom we are unhappy. We simply can change everything.
You do not have to follow the path on which all are. In your life there is always a change. Your decisions should not be checking the others' hypotheses.
Explore. Try. Mistaken. Draw your own conclusions. Move on. And never be afraid to change.