“You only need the light when it’s burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow, only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low, only hate the road when you’re missing home.” 
 
There is something about this song that gets me every time. Despite the meaning behind the messages entirety, the individual lines (as stated above) mean something entirely different to me. Between the never ending exhaustion of travel, backpacking and transit, it is hard to sometimes just sit, breathe and take in your surroundings. The more I travel, the better I seem to get at it. Though no matter what, I always leave thinking I could have embraced the experience just a little more.
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In reality, I know I have experienced every trip to the best of my ability but it is always going to be difficult not to take it for granted while your surrounded in miraculous travel experiences.
This song for me says exactly that. Every time I am on long travels, I am missing home. Every time it starts to snow, I miss the sun. Every time I’m feeling sad and alone, I remember all the incredible moments I’ve had in my travels and begin to get that travel bug all over again.
In the perfect world, I would have my family and friends right next to me in my travels so I never have to miss home. I would have all the money or sponsors in the world to send me on trips and wild experiences. I would be happy, healthy and experienced. Then again, so would most people if that were the case. That’s life, right?
There are so many of you out there right now reading this and thinking ‘if I were rich, I would go.’ I get it. The thing is, people put themselves in situations (like school and a career) and are too scared to ruin their chances to make it big time in the industry they are skilled at. There have been many times when I’ve been on travels and I envy the people who have steady jobs, a steady income and relationships in the same cities. There have also been times in my travels where I think to myself, I couldn’t have made a better decision than to run away and travel, to as many countries as I could in two years.

You only get one shot at life, you might as well do it right.

I wanted to write this blog post to tell all of you dying to get out of the full-time job cycle or school cycle: GO TRAVEL. Move to a different country and continue your schooling, move to a different city and get a new job.

So here’s why you should quit your day job to go and travel the world.

I fear that I am living to work and I want to make sure that not only myself but everyone around me that I love focuses on working to LIVE. You should work to make the money to do the things you’re dying to scratch off your bucket list. Stop worrying about the material world, no one cares what brand your jeans are, how big your house is or how nice your car is. It’s the experiences in life that you will remember, not the materials.

Get on the internet, search the best and more ideal ways to travel to the places you want to be and GO.

You can’t be jealous of everyone in the world doing what they want in life, they have given up big things in their life to be there. You have to too. Trust me, it will be worth it.

Until the day I die, I will make sure that I am working to LIVE my life free, happy and wonderful.

I hope you do the same.

Now go get packing! Oh, and here’s a list to help you out: The Ultimate Never Fail Packing List