The Preparation..when bad turns great!

I made that scary decision of selling everything I own, quitting my job, and buying the plane tickets to travel the world. Theres never a right time and theres never a bad time, you just have to go for it. My family has always called me the wild child with a gypsy soul. Well for me that does sound about right but at the same time it was a little scary and very unknown. I knew it was a life long dream of mine so if I was ever going to live out that dream…I gotta go! So thats exactly what I did.. I bought the tickets and committed to traveling the world.

First I started by getting rid of my apartment and moving things into my parents house and storage. I sold some of the material things to make it less to move because the materialistic things didn’t matter to me besides my clothes…oh clothes are very important! I had to take my closet to my parents house because thats the most important thing I had! So my parents were so kindly moving things and getting rid of things in their home so I could have a place for a little storage area for my stuff while I am traveling. So we had many bags going to donation centers from stuff out of their house. Well my parents were trying to help and be so nice to let their grown child halfway move back in…at least just my stuff!

Well that totally turned around for the worse for me! They accidentally grabbed my bags of clothes and donated them. AHHH!!! What a tragedy..I was so devastated! So after my panic attack I decided to try to go to the thrift store and get my clothes back. What a funny experience walking into a thrift store explaining your parents accidentally donated your clothes to them and asking for them back. Luckily they were so generous and understanding so they offered me to “shop” through their store and if I saw my stuff I could have it all back without paying! I was extremely grateful they let me do that! So here I go literally popping tags in a thrift store on my own clothes! I am prepared to start searching through all the clothes on the racks instead I get maybe 5 steps more and look up…. my clothes are on the mannequin!!! So through all the devastation and panic attack I had to laugh a little.

So it ended up that most of the clothes were already gone so it wasn’t worth it for me to get the clothes that were left. As I am walking out of this thrift store..I thought to myself I had to make the best of a bad situation. So I am so happy that other people got some awesome deals on great clothes and I’m sure it made some people very happy just to get clothes that day. So it made me realize how fortunate I am and how I need to appreciate what I have each and every day. So for the rest of my belongings my parents worked with a charity to ship all of my stuff to Africa. I ended up getting rid of everything I own. So all I have now is what I am traveling with, what fits in a suitcase. Now i realize how material things, really don’t matter!

Wander on…never stop wandering!

Free Bird! ✈

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