Can you be a wanderer forever

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Today we want to share with you the story of Debbie Corrano - a girl who travels the world, works remotely and reflects on what this lifestyle can teach.

I am often asked if I am always going to live the lifestyle of a nomad - always traveling and working remotely. Sometimes the questions are slightly different. For example, where am I going to go next, or is it wise to constantly travel, when you can stay for permanent residence in almost any city in the world. Or they ask if I have any thoughts of returning to Brazil in two years and starting to live the same life - as if nothing had changed.

Sometimes my boyfriend and I ask each other how long we can be content with this way of life. There are a million amazing opportunities that open before you when you only need the Internet to work, and you can live anywhere in the world.

And we enjoy every minute. But we also miss our families, we think about careers, friendships, problems, illnesses, money and many other things that are part of the life of pilgrims (as, indeed, part of the life of any people). Perhaps one day the nomadic lifestyle will no longer make us happy.

In this life, nothing lasts forever. Who knows what will happen tomorrow?

Every time I think about it, I come to the same conclusion: life will show. Today I am truly happy to be a wanderer who only needs the Internet and a laptop to work. But I have no idea what tomorrow has in store for me. I change every day. My thoughts, outlook on life, habits - absolutely everything changes. And I have nothing to make me sit in one place or resist change. I am not afraid to change, I am not afraid to become different.

But there is a question that can be unpleasant: where is it, the notorious stability, in the life of a person who is constantly moving from place to place? In my experience, the answer lies where we least expect to find it: change itself.

The road we are walking today is not paved with long-term habits. We abandoned the generally accepted and constantly imposed by society patterns, when we realized that we are free, and living along a given track “home-work-family” and painstaking career advancement should not determine our future. If only simply because we do not want it.

We want to think and choose how to act and where to move on, and not just live as it is accepted, and not accepted by us.

And the fact that we do not have any instructions that would tell us how we should behave, where to live, whether we should have children, when we should get married or buy a car, makes us free.

And due to the fact that we do not follow the beaten path, we live at random. Constantly experimenting to see if it works or not. If yes, and that will make us happy - well, great. Then we'll try something new. If this does not work, then we will have to deal with the consequences, and then put forward a new hypothesis in our game.

It's not so easy to live on assumptions and guesses. You must constantly keep your finger on the pulse, plan each new step, because you are not walking on a common road. You have to think about it as soon as you wake up, and a second before you fall asleep.

Like all people, I do not know what can make me happy in a year, in five or ten years. The only thing I know for sure is that the life of a nomad who stops for a short time in different parts of the earth, now I can call it happy. I know that even if someday I do decide to return to Brazil to my old way of life, I will not be attached to this place until the end of my days. I have always been free - as, indeed, all of you.

Is it possible to move from place to place all your life while working on the Internet? Of course. But remember, your life will change over time. It doesn't matter who you are: an office recluse who works from 9:00 to 18:00, or a person who travels all the time. Remember that even a short period of time can change your whole life.

And of course, you can remain a nomad as long as this lifestyle continues to delight you.

You can be anyone, anywhere, as long as it makes you happy.

My lifestyle taught me that nothing is final. One day I may wake up and think, "I want to stay here." And I really can just stay here. Because I know that it is never too late and it never happens that nothing can be changed. I know that I can change something in my life if one day I feel that not everything suits me.

Questions, fear and uncertainty will never disappear from our lives, but we need them, because they are part of the process of change. We shouldn't live in a place that we don't like. We shouldn't do work that we don't like. We should not live surrounded by people with whom we are unhappy. We can just change everything.

You don't have to follow the path that everyone is walking. There is always room for change in your life. Your decisions shouldn't be a test of someone else's hypothesis.

Explore. Try it. Make a mistake. Draw conclusions. Move on. And never be afraid to change.