Meanwhile a sincere friend of mine has started his own blog called Traveling Asia. His story is quite interesting. About three years ago he decided to leave everything behind, fed up with his work and his living in Boston, USA. He decided to reorganize his life in three phases.
First, according to his motto “The things that are most important aren’t things at all“, he sold everything he had, left his job and began not to make further plans.
Then, secondly it was “not the destination, but the journey” that counted and he left traveling the world. During this time it was when we once met in Madrid in 2004 (part of the formerly known “The Fellowship”). Since then he has travelled a long way through North America, Europe, Siberia and Asia, worked at an orphanage in Nepal ending up in Japan as an English teacher.
I am not sure if he has already stepped into phase 3 “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes” (quotes taken from his website at I Think Not), which would signify to move to a foreign country, to become conversational in the local language, and to take no ladder jobs that might end him up back at Phase 1.
However, he has been publishing various stories of his travels, new impressions of his new life in Japan, his continuous work at the orphanage in Nepal, as well as his new sidetrips throughout Asia. Please pay him a visit at his new blog Traveling Asia…
I Think Not Traveling Asia
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Chris Says:
Jan 24th, 2007 at 04:50Visit Chris
Hey Marc, thanks for thinking of me. Looks like I’ll be back in your direction again for grad school. Anything to say about German schools in the field of development? My experience with the orphanage and in Nepal in particular has helped me focus on ‘the mother ship’ (my calling). I will be studying again to help me help others.
Chris Says:
Dec 17th, 2007 at 17:38Visit Chris
Hey Marc! Wow! What a long year it’s been! I don’t even remember writing this in Jan!
I am indeed going to grad school, but as it turns out, I got to go to Harvard for even cheaper than it would ultimately cost to go to school in Europe! So now I’m living, studying, and working (csmonitor.com) in Boston again. never thought I’d return, but I have a good excuse for the next 2 years…
Where are you these days?
warauduati Says:
Dec 20th, 2007 at 15:01Visit warauduati
Good for you, Chris! Harvard … that sounds splendid!
So I guess, the ithinknot-experiment and experience is concluded?
- You moved to a foreign country. (Rule 1)
- You became conversational in the local language. (Rule 2)
- You took no ladder jobs that would have ended you up back in phase 1 again. (Rule 3)
Not yet !? The voyage for now is over. New experiences are about to come. Phase 4 !? Time flies by … it has been almost four years since we met. All the best. I’ll drop you some lines soon!