A Facebook friend of mine recently posted this article about why people should travel young. Basically the article speaks of a guy's experience with travel and despite every intention to remain a constant traveler, life just sets in eventually. People get married, start careers and families. Life just happens. Of course that doesn't mean that you will never travel again once these things occur, but typically the resources, money and time, aren't as readily available anymore.
This young adult stage is the time to invent the lives that you really want. Unfortunately, too many people, myself included, are convinced to spend this time being "practical" saving for the future and spending all free time trying to climb the various figurative ladders in our careers. Which isn't completely unreasonable, parents, teachers, friends, want you to be practical in order to potentially have a better life down the road. But how many people turn forty and wish that they had done more before they settled down, before they got so involved with their career that they scarcely use their sick days. But, I don't think anyone says, "Man, I wish I hadn't taken that vacation to ____. Those memories were so not worth the money that I could have been saving." The experience is worth so much more than money. Much more than a job that is not paying you what you're really worth. And maybe through these experiences, we will find our passions and who we really want to be. If we settle for the mundane predictable lives now, when will we get to really live?
Not to mention, most young adults still aren't saving if they aren't traveling. They just spend the money, shopping, going to clubs, eating out, etc.
That's just another reason why I'm grateful for friends who want to experience the world around us, different languages, different foods, different cultures. But of course as broke college kids we just started out with different cities :).
Our (Labor Day I think) day trip to Memphis, TN...to the mall of course. Yetta got a cop to take this pic (he didn't know how to use her phone, this took a few takes).
Our first weekend trip :) Dallas, Texas. I think this was at Joe's Crab Shack. I know, I know fancy ;) lol jk.
This one was an adventure all of its own. We had a snow day from school so we didn't get mail and Lauren's people had sent her a German chocolate cake in the mail (which is strange but it was by her request lol). Lauren just couldn't wait another day so she and Yetta CONNED poor me and Jaz to walk in the snow/ice covered grounds downtown to the main post office to get her cake.....which wasn't even there. Smh. But, a really great story with lots of embarrassing pics that I'll spare them...hehehe :)
If you are interested in reading the article that inspired this post, click below:
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