Ready or Yes!?

Day 3,517, 16:02 • Published in Romania Romania • by ZhadoX

11:30 PM. A sound of vibration on the bedside table. The screen lights on. “Do you want to come with me?”, the notification bubble was asking me. With the phone in my hand, I could feel the tornado of butterflies inside me trying to escape through my throat and shout “Of course!”, desperately wanting to anticipate the brain, which is ready to start questioning “what, where, when, how…?” The place on the picture is exotic, it’s new. And that’s enough.

It is a complicated story, I should confess. There are a lot of life lessons behind one simple “yes” when there is a case of this kind on the table. But let’s start with the idea that most of the single, hard-working, super busy and smart individuals are human beings of simple pleasure. With a hand on my heart, I am absolutely sure, I won’t find a person through whom’s head has not passed the desire of a spontaneous trip on a wild island with a beautiful stranger. Come on. You have imagined a spontaneous adventure at least once while daydreaming on your desk. And I think, be careful what you wish for. Because you have to be ready to get it. So what do you think I did? I opened the chat and I typed “yes! I am coming”. Of course I am coming. “No mind”, man, this is the concept. And this simple “yes” opened a whole new world in front of me.

I hope your next thoughts are not general excuses, rational reasons and all sorts of your grandma’s perceptions of why you better don’t do it. Instead try to think of what life is actually about. I do believe, it is about living through things that make you feel alive. As I said above… at the end of the day we are human beings, not human doings, as thinking and constant work made us. I won’t continue with the cliche ideas about going out of your comfort zone where “life begins”. We all know this theoretically, in a quote. What we should do, is really go out and take this world by its hand. It is your friend. The whole universe is working for you. Just trust it.

If you are lucky enough to cross paths with someone who wants to take you to a beautiful place and who wants to share the real things of life with you, you can’t ask for more of a date. It is touching. Soulful. Natural. It adds a true value to the big picture. These kind of people are able to find a proselyte or to inspire someone to see the real beauty of Why you have to be a lonely traveller, when you can be both of you? “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with”, says Charles Schulz.

It is a whole new way of meeting with new people – through travelling. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think we are sick and tired of classical dinners on roof terraces in the old city, drinking cocktails in packed bars with loud music, sitting on the grass in the well-known parks, taking a walk to the flower or vintage markets on Sundays. Gosh, we can do that all the time. It is just more exciting to do these things in unknown places, discovering new territories and cultures. In this way people get closer more truly and naturally. They create true connections between each others.

It is the strong desire of something new, something crazy and something that can jog the water of your lake. If you say, you do not want, I think you just lied to yourself. Pack this backpack and go for that adventure! Because “a man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”