About the different kinds of travelling

         Let's be honest! Who doesn't like to travel? Who doesn't enjoy a good journey at least every once in awhile? Seeing a tropical island or a famous city. or the peak of a mountain...I mean, that's the best part of life, right? Wrong!
        I would like to share here my view on travelling, on the goals and reasons we choose doing it  for and on the experience as a whole.
        First of all, let's take the modern concept of travelling and analyze it. It basically goes like this : someone is tired of the 9 to 5 daily routine, buys some plane tickets 6 months early for a place he/she always wanted to visit, after the 6 months he/she goes there being happy of the place he/she wanted to see, then comes back and takes his/hers place back in the routine and maybe also posting some photos from the holiday on Facebook.
       One mistake that I can see here is the lack of flexibility. Someone will plan the whole thing out a few months before actually happening, taking away most of the spontaneity a journey could bring. Also, the choice of a fixed destination might again ruin the experience. If you set a fixed destination, you will start having high expectations of how great it's going to be and your mind will only be satisfied if the expectations are met. Thus, a small rain, a closed museum or some dirty beach could ruin your expensive and beloved holiday. A journey should not only be about the destination, and this gets me to the next mistake of modern travelling : transportation.
       Some people think they enjoy travelling because it allows them to visit places they always wanted to see. This may be true, but it's not only the place itself that makes you happy, it's the fact that you are doing something else, it's not the same routine, and that gives you a sense of living. So why not maximize that feeling? It shouldn't be about the destination, but the journey itself, and regular transportation will just skip you through one of the best parts of travelling : the road. When you start spending days, weeks on the road, you will start appreciating the spontaneity of every second and thus, the destination will become just a mere epilogue to your great adventure. Forget about your car and throw away your plane tickets (actually don't do that, they are expensive; just sell them back), get on the road and start hitchhiking...or even better : walk!
       I know, some people are fine with hitchhiking, I mean you get to know different people and that is awesome! But walking? Bleah! Although it is true it can take you a looong time to get from one place to another, so if you are in a hurry it might not be the best option, I believe that it is the best way (and maybe even the only way) to experience real travelling. You can take the plane for a few hours to visit some tropical island and it will be fun, but if you walk for a day or two just to see a tree several kilometres outside your city, when you will reach it, that tree will become the most amazing thing you could be standing in front of, better than any exotic island or famous city. The sense of appreciation that regular hiking brings is incredible, not to mention the road, which will never cease to amaze you. Every road will be different, just like every destination is.
       So, I would like to use this occasion to challenge any kind of reader that has stumbled upon this blog and is interested in this idea of alternative travelling. The challenge goes like this: search on Google for some interesting places (maybe a waterfall, a fortress, church etc.) near your house (about 20-30 km), choose one you would like to visit, and do so the following weekend...on foot. No car, no hitchhiking, no train, just your two legs moving back and forth. Take a camera and enjoy all the small things along the way, from flowers, wild fruits you can eat (make sure to know the edible ones ) to other hikers with whom you might cross way. When you return home after the exhausting 40-60 km just think about your day, see what you have learned and how you feel about spending your day in such a way. I think you will come to some great conclusions after this experience, whether your whole idea of travelling will change or you will absolutely hate it and never want to try it again, I think it's worth spending one day to see how you feel about it.
         That will be it for now, thank you for the patience of reading the entire article (except, of course, if you haven't read anything and you just skipped here). Don't forget that it is a normal thig for people to love journies, because we were biologically and psychologically made to seek new places and experiences. But we also have to ask ourselves: are we really experiencing a journey?


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When you know it's time to make a change

      Hello, hello ! This is the begining of my new (and first) blog and I hope to explain all that  you need to know in this very first artcile. First of all let me mention that I am not a native  English speaker, so whatever grammar mistakes you might encounter, just pretend you  don't see them, hehe. 

       Ok, now let's talk about the real reasons and purpose of this blog. Ahh, and btw, if you  are reading this, chances are that you are one of my first readers. Thanks, you are an  awesome person, I hope you will join me at least until the end of this article and maybe  even a few more after that.

     About the title now : "Nonsense of an ordinary person" (that's what the blog's title should  be. if it is not, that is because i am new to blog design and I probably don't know how to add  the blog title. Hopefuly, by the time you are reading this, I have already figured it out). As I  as saying, why this title? I find it pretty common for people to always wish what they do not  have and blindly search for happiness where they might not even find it. It is, at least in my  opinion, quite a nonsense that we, the ordinary people of a "civilized world", always feel so  lost and without a purpose, although states and political powers try giving people a purpose  by making them part of a society, a living mechanism. In this situation, it is not uncommon  for people to dream of leaving all behind, family, friends, jobs, college, and just go out and  see the world. It is not uncommon for these people that drown in responsabilities to think of  how it would be to taste real freedom and to experience the simplicity and wilderness of the  real world.

       I am no different. As a 20 year old guy, born in Eastern Europe, I often dream of  something more than my daily routine. I started dreaming about going out in the world and  living my dream when I was in highschool. It was supposed to be my own, incredible  journey, one that I will always remember and one that would be worth telling to others. I  didn't really knew where I wanted to go, all I knew was that I wanted to leave. I am pretty  sure most of us dreamed of something like this, abandoning all that we now have in search  of another way of living. And I am also pretty sure that most of us didn't even try to  accomplish this dream...I know I haven't. I finished highschool two years ago and comodity,  laziness took over me. I started studying history in college, and although I love it, there's no  way I am going to do this for the rest of my life. The spark is still there, and this time, more  than ever, I know that I want to leave for good. So, more or less this is what my blog is  gonna be about (for now). My plans, my thoughts and eventually, my journey. With all it's  positive and negative parts, I will try to find out if such a risk is worth being taken and I hope  to inspire some of you too, not necesarily to leave your current lifestyle, but at least to  rethink your everyday schedule and wonder if there could be something more in life that  you would enjoy doing right now.

      I hope you didn't get too bored by reading this, and I hope some of you know what I  mean by this desire of freedom and adventure. I still don't know if you can leave comments  on this kind of blog/website, but if you can make sure to leave some opinions and  suggestions. I wish you the best and I hope you will be reading my next articles too. :)

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