Traveling solo can be incredibly daunting. The thought of feeling lonely and homesick stops many from packing their bags and going it on their own, but if you can pluck up the courage, you likely won’t regret it.
Expectations kill dreams and feed frustrations purely because they are an elusive form of control that attempts to grip reigns that aren’t ours to hold. Sometimes you have to go broke, lose the person you thought you loved and watch you friends walk away in order to get to where you are going. Trust the process.
Is it possible to have a deep connection with someone you’ve only known for a short amount of time? And if so, how do you uncover that kind of connection when meeting someone for the first time? I put it to the test with two strangers and one phone call.
It’s important to realise that no matter how good you are to people, it won’t make them good to you And it's the expectations we set that are the things that will hurt us the most.
That idea of starting again and starting from scratch used to scare me because the label ‘FAILURE’ was often affiliated with it. And I mean, who wants to be labelled a failure?
Remember when you were a kid and you had these wild and crazy dreams. But as you get older, those dreams begin to slip further and further away from you.
Sometimes it takes almost losing your life to realise you only get one chance at it. Alli is one of those people who has a hunger and thirst for living life on her terms. After trauma, a solo trip to Vietnam and having a new outlook on life, Alli soon saw how many doors opened for her because of the experiences she at the time thought were the end of the world, but really they were just the beginning of her next chapter...
When you get comfortable with falling, you realise there’s nothing you can ever really hit that could hurt you because that’s life. It's dangerous and at times scary but if we try to live through it in fear we’ll never be able to experience that state of bliss and freedom.
